Nov 21 2008
One gift equals 30 bottles of wine
Give your loved one the opportunity to make 30 bottles of award-winning wine.
Holiday Shopping Tips:
(NC)—It is, indeed, easy to buy a bottle of red or white for the wine buff in your life – but has that become a bit too predictable?
This year, here’s a way to add some unusual and unexpected fun to the picture: Give your loved one the opportunity to make 30 bottles of award-winning wine instead. The better wine kits sold today actually source 100 percent pure, varietal grape juice from some of the world’s premier vineyards.
“This is why so many of the wines in our collections win excellence awards,” says Chris Staresinic at RJ Spagnols. “That information and more is posted with each selection when you review the list of such universal favourites as Shiraz, Merlot, Chardonnay, Chianti, Pino Grigio, and many more.
“The quality of homemade wine can be totally dependable – so for a dazzling, top-of-the-line gift, you can’t go wrong with a kit selection from either the En Primeur, Cellar Classic Winery Series, or Cru Select series.”
While on the site, (www.spagnols.com) you can also find the most convenient winemaking shops near you. These locations sell the kits – and also offer an optional service to make the wine for you, complete with an invitation to help with the bottling. Either way, the costs of making one’s own wine are virtually cut in half. Here’s a snapshot of just a few choices:
• En Primeur: Each of the 10 wines harvested for this collection apply the proprietary process of gently drying crushed, whole, varietal grape skins. This preserves the fresh vineyard flavour and adds delightful deep hues, lush body, a subtle bouquet, or a lingering finish to the select red wines.
• Cru Select: From the full-bodied and robust, to the soft and refined, this collection is made to exacting standards. With pure varietal grape juice plus European and Australian grape concentrates, many of the wine kits include toasted oak chips to impart rich, succulent shades of oak and smokey vanilla.
• Cellar Classic: Within six weeks, this series produces brilliantly clear wine, bursting with full aromas and flavours. As the wine ages, the character continues to mature. The red wines, for example, are produced by fermenting grape juice on varietal-specific crushed grape skins, seeds, and stems. This extracts deep colour, chewy tannins, tantalizing flavours and complex aromas to produce richly structured wines.
- News Canada
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