Reserve Du Chateau Cabernet Sauvignon Review

[Slate Miner]

I made this 30 bottle, 4 week kit back at the beginning of March this year. Purchased from Amazon for the amazing price of £15.66 :shock: :lol: The current price is £62 !! however it's certainly worth keeping an eye on the price of these kits from amazon as the price can fluctuate quite a bit. Worth buying if it slips below £30 in the future.

I followed the instructions, using tap water, and campden tablets when I racked a couple of times, the final gravity reading was 1000, and from my initial notes the fermentation started very quickly.

This kit also included labels, shrinkwraps and corks, I ended up with 28.5 bottles. :party:

Last week we opened the first bottle 4 half months after bottling, this really is a very nice, easy drinking fruity wine and at around 55 pence a bottle an absolute bargain. :lol: :rofl: Certainly compares with a £5 or £6 bottle of Aussie Cab Sauv. :thumb:

Yes I was fortunate to get this at a very low price, however in my mind (and taste) it's certainly a notch or two better than cellar7, and probably on par with the Beaverdale and Cal Con wine kits.

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[bobsbeer]

I agree this has turned out to be a good wine. Like you I got it for £16. Just bottled ours yesterday after maturing for 5 months. Very impressed. Good colour, body and a fruiy taste, with a slight peppery aftertatse. I got 29 bottles exactly. SG was 1.090 and FG was .998, so similar to yours. Very impressed and equal to Beverdale. I will certainly keep an eye on the price. Def worth £30-40 for this kit, but at £16 it's stunning. Can't wait for the Merlot to be ready now. Just a shame I didn't buy more.

 

[ScottM]

Will be keeping an eye out for this, cheers guys :thumb:

 

[Pearlfisher]

I've bought their pinot grigio kit recently from Amazon at £27 which I thought was a good price.
Going to start it off this week after collecting the water from Haslad Spring ,Malvern.

 

[Pearlfisher]

Just come to stabilise the Pinot Grigio and the instructions say to add the contents of packages 3 and 4 to half a cup of cool water , there aren't any! only package 2 which states stabiliser on it ,but isn't mentioned in the instructions? :?

 

[bobsbeer]

My guess is Package 3 should be the stabiliser, which you have and the other will be finings. My last kit has a two part clear sachet.

 

[Pearlfisher]

My guess is Package 3 should be the stabiliser, which you have and the other will be finings. My last kit has a two part clear sachet.

Thanks BB , instructions say package 3 metabisulphate and package 4 sorbate so I suppose they've just combined them into package 2 as stabiliser..

I also had the 2 part clearing sachet with this kit.