What sort of wine making kit do we need to produce some really good wine? Our suppliers have access to some of the world's finest wine making recipes. Well first we are going to break this down into two parts.

The first part of the wine making kit will be the equipment and the second part will be the type of wine kit we can make. For the equipment we will need the following items; A plastic food grade fermenting bucket with lid (alternatively this can be a fermenting container with a screw lid), an airlock and bung for lid, a siphon tube with "U" bend attached, hydrometer (this will be used to check when the wine is finished), a thermometer (to keep your eye on the liquid and room temperature), some steriliser and most kits will require you to transfer the wine into a second container at some stage in the process.

The second part of the wine making kit is the actual wine kit. I should have said at the start that we have two sizes of kit that we can make. You can have either a 6 bottle version or a 30 bottle version. Both of these will require the same wine making equipment it will just be the size that varies. The benefit to the 30 bottles is you have more choice of the types of wine, they work out better value per bottle and they are just as simple to make but you end up with five times more!!!!

So lets look a little closer at the second part of the wine making kit in a little more detail. The wine kit will be made up of several components; the first and most important item is the grape juice that goes into it. As a general rule the more of this the better will be the quality of the finished wine (and the more expensive the kit will be). Some of the cheaper kits will ask you to add sugar. You will also have yeast (to start the fermentation), stabiliser (to stop the fermentation and preserve the wine), and finings (to clear the wine).Don't be worried that these include chemicals because all these products have been used on bought wines for many 100's of years.

Well that's what you need to make the wine the hard part is to decide which wine type you want in your wine making kit. You have a choice of white, red, or rose as a first off. Then each of these will offer you a choice of type.

For example with the white wines you have Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Piesporter, Muscadet, Pinot Grigio, to name but a few. In the red wines you have Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Rioja, Barolo, and Shiraz again as just an example of what you can get. The rose is more limited but we now have some really super "Blush" wines which are becoming ever so popular. The choice is your's as to which wine you are going to include in your wine making kit.