NIAGARA MIST Wine Kit – Black Cherry – Makes wine in 4 weeks

When I drink this wine, I can taste the black cherry flavor. It does not taste like chemicals or overly sweet. This was straight after bottling.1/25/2018 Edit: I had to hide a case of bottles from my adult kids so I can see what it tastes like with some aging. I think they have been visiting more often just to get to this wine. The other wines in the wine rack are starting to get jealous. I just ordered another kit.3/6/2018 Edit: Just bottled my second batch. It is great at bottling time. I put another case away to age as well.5/30/2018 Edit: I just opened a bottle after letting it sit for a couple of months. It is getting better with age and the flavor of the black cherry is still very good with no chemical taste. My palate just does not do well with chemicals. It has really ruined my dining out experiences. I am not sure what they do to create an awesome black cherry flavor, but it is there. It is about what I taste when eating a fresh black cherry off of my neighbors tree at peak ripeness. I add extra sugar to my wine kits to have an ABV of 10 to 12%. Need to be careful with this stuff. A bottle can disappear very quickly.

I've been making wine about 10 years now, but I started with a very similar (Island Mist) kit. This is sweet, fruity and light: the alcohol content is much lower than most wines. Think pink Moscato or harvest (sweet) Riesling disguised as a fruity red. It comes with all the ingredients you need and you can be drinking it in a month. (You can drink it on bottling night, but once you bottle it let it rest a week or so to recover from bottle-shock.) Wine this sweet doesn't really need to age. The process is pretty darned simple and very forgiving; it takes 4 weekends in a row, and hour or less each weekend, maybe 2 hrs the final day for bottling. You'll also need an equipment kit (8 gallon bucket with lid, 6 gallon bottle called a carboy, stopper with an airlock, siphon with tube, big spoon and/or de-gassing stir stick for use with a hand held drill). Everything but the drill will set you back about $100-150, but is durable and re-usable for years. You can often rent a corker from a local vintner supply till you decide making wine is the coolest thing ever and decide to buy one from $15 to $115. You'll also need 28-30 wine bottles, corks, bottle brush, and cleansers. This ingredient kit comes with the grape juice(10L), F-pack(~0.5L of flavored syrup), Instructions and 5 packets: #1 yeast(5g), #2 Bentonite(10g), #3 Potasium Metabisulphite(4g), #4 Potasium Sorbate(6.5g), #5 fining agent or clarifier Chitosan(150ml). You'll use a LOT LESS sulphites than store bought wine, so if that gives you headaches, this will probably be a lot easier on your system. (besides the low alcohol level ~7%.) The only thing NOT included is labels, you can make up your own print them out and tape them on, or print them on blank adhesive labels, or buy them already printed up; but you WILL want a label if you're making more than one kind of kit wine, or if you're gifting it.

Niagara Mist beats buying wine with a foot on its label! It tastes as good as any pricer $12-20 wine at a much lower cost! I mean seriously, 28-30 bottles of wine for $60 and free shipping! I would advise any frequent wine buyer to purchase a wine making kit and then start buying wine replacement kits. The initial cost of a winemaking kit will pay off, very quickly and making wine at home is pretty easy.

I loved the wine "BUT" I added 5 pounds of Corn Sugar for more alcohol percentage. I got 15% and it was so good, Bold cherry flavor! I had bottle them and hand them out as gifts and got a lot of great reviews. Thanks for the wine kits!

I like the ease of these kits to make and how quick they are to produce an end product. They are a little too sweet for my taste however.

Delicious! Added more sugar at the start of fermentation to raise the starting gravity and alcohol content of the finished product. Turned out delicious. It did need three extra weeks to clear, so don't be stunned if it's not ready to bottle at 4 weeks.

This is by far and above, everyone's favorite wine I make. It took around 3wks for the flavor to really come around nicely. Good right at bottling, but man, 3wks of rest and it's amazing! Such an awesome black cherry finish. As always, we add 2 & 1/2 lbs of sugar to the primary ferment for an increased alcohol content of around 9-12%.

I'm not sure about this kit yet. To me it tastes like cough medicine, but I am going to ask some other people to try it without telling them my thoughts first.I have made 2 of the peach kits and they turned out fantastic, so I'm a little disappointed in this one. I will update this review with the opinions of the people I have try a bottle and after it has had a little time to age.