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Costco Wine Kits

Recently a poster mentioned that Costco sold Wine Kits. I was in a Costco here in Calgary the other day and noticed a wine kit promotion. They were selling kits thst featured 23 litres of must. One of the two "Limited Collection 2003" Opus V kits was an Italian Barbaresco. Being a sucker for full bodied Reds I bought the kit. At $72.00Cdn the price seemed pretty good. I'm ready to start the kit now and noticed some strange instuctions. After sprinkling the yeast on the must the instructions say to stir the yeast into the must after waiting ten minutes. The other strange instruction called for stirring the wine after racking to the carboy for secondary fermentation, calling this step an initial degassing. Both of these steps seem designed to rush the fermentation and would appear to be unnecessary. Any thoughts on these steps?

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rob davis
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Great Dane

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rob davis

I've not tried those kits, but it seems all kits are not created equal. Some brands were very good. Others seemed to be glucose-laden puple water that made really poor wine.

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Brewser83

My cousin buys these or some other kit from Cosco and makes them with 19 liters. He says they turn out pretty good. But if what you say is true, about them being equililent to $32 - 7 liter kits then even that doesn't make sense. They may have different kits from time-to-time though.

Don

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Don S

. The only reason for buying the 23 litre "sterile must" and pay about $

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Great Dane

There's no question that is true and probably very true for a high end kit. I sometimes wonder about how true it might be for some of the low end kits that seem pretty thin. Never was there a truer acronym for wine kits then YMMV or perhaps it should be YMMVG - Your Mileage May Very Greatly.

Don

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Don S

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