Selection Estate Crushendo

The new Crushendo grape pack is the key to a brilliantly intense red wine experience.  But how does it work?

The key to making red wine is in the skin of the grapes.

The flesh of red grapes is pale yellow: most of the color, flavor, and aroma compounds lie within the skin. Traditional winemaking includes the skin in with the fermenting wine to extract these compounds. Until now, wine kits have been made with unfermented juice soaked with skins, but without alcohol (by law kits can’t contain alcohol). As a result, some of the compounds were very difficult to extract.

Now, by including the skins, and packaging them separately, Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo kits can deliver every nuance, all of the tannin, the brilliant colors and flavors of a super-premium red wine, with all the ageing potential and lush flavors of the best commercial wines.

And it’s easy! Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo is as easy to make as our other Estate Series kits. The Crushendo grape pack and the ultra-premium vineyard-designated juices give brilliant aromas and flavors, and a velvety tannic grip, to make a wine of unique and piercing intensity.

All wine kits come complete with yeast, clarifiers, stabilizers, oak and other flavor additives appropriate for the style of wine.”