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Cantina Montecino 28 Bottle Wine Kit
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Sanitise your fermenter, equipment and bottles first with ChemSan no-rinse sanitiser.
Cantina Montecino is a full-bodied yet fruity Italian-style red wine kit that makes 28 bottles in five days. It's a good all-round red for drinking with food or on its own.
New to home brewing? Get this kit as a complete starter kit.
Add a 25 litre fermenter with tap, bottling wand, airlock, hydrometer and sanitiser and it becomes our Cantina Wine Making Starter Kit – all you need to add is bottles. Includes a step-by-step guide.
Get the starter kit – £63.99The name Montecino is an alias: Hambleton Bard explain that EU wine rules stop them naming the true grape on the box, but the result is a rounded, easy-to-like red built on Italian grape juice.
What's in the box
- Italian grape juice concentrate - no sugar needed
- Sachet 1: wine yeast and nutrient
- Sachet 2: stabiliser
- Sachets 3 and 4: two-part finings to clear the wine
Specs
- About 4 days fermenting plus 1 day stabilising and clearing
- Needs a 25-33 litre fermenter with an airlock, and a syphon
How to make it
Top the juice up to 21 litres with water at 20-30°C, add the yeast sachet and ferment for about 4 days. Then stabilise, de-gas and fine, and bottle the clear wine the next day. Full steps are on the instruction sheet in the box.
Ideal if you want a dependable house red. A 30L fermenter with tap, lid and grommet and an auto syphon are all the kit you need. Browse the Cantina 5 Day Wine Kits.