Cellaring Your Wine

Wine kits are ready to bottle in four to eight weeks, but they're not necessarily ready to drink! The minimum time before a kit wine tastes good is about two weeks. This is long enough for the wine to get over the shock of bottling, and begin opening up to release its aromas and flavours. Three months is much better, and the wine will show most of its character at this point. Heavy reds will continue to improve for at least a year, and you'll be well rewarded for your patience.