Wine Buddy/Youngs 30 Bottle Merlot

I've been brewing these wines for the best part of 25 years and really enjoy making them. The instructions are very easy to follow and I always get great results. These wines always do take a little longer than 7 days to make but one can never rush a good job! The delivery was quick and was very well packaged. Will buy from here again. Thanks!

Easy DIY kit, End product improved after leaving for 2-3 weeks and was a lovely resulting wine :) Has a very nice dark fruit taste, not as sharp as a shop bought bottle 😊

fairly easy to make left a little longer than the 7 days maybe 10 but worth the wait ,no after taste like a lot of kits . Nice smooth red, not a wine buff but lovely taste , impressed

Phillip Morris dispatched really fast and kit arrived next day. Item well packaged with great care. Can't say what wine will be like yet but previous red wine was good.

Patience required If you think you'll have palatable wine after 7 days you're in for disappointment. Two months minimum, then it is actually a nice drink.

I really wouldn't bother with this kit to be honest. When it arrived, the grape concentrate had leaked all over the inside of the box. I thought I'd give it a go anyway, so stuck the sodden instructions back together as best as possible. The fermentation took 15 days (not 6 as advertised), despite being kept at a cozy room temperature. The resulting "wine" was thin and watery, more a rosé colour than red, and tasted so foul it was undrinkable (completely lacking body, and very little flavour apart from a horrible metallic taste). This wasn't just poor quality wine (as an experienced home brewer I would have accepted that things don't always turn out as well as planned), it was barely wine at all and actually so foul-tasting that I couldn't bring myself to drink even a glass. The seller was rather unhelpful, simply suggesting I'd not followed the instructions. I had, and my equipment was well-cleaned and sterilised. Avoid!

Great wine must be fifth one I've brought now easy instructions makes 30 bottles hubby loves it im not a red wine drinker noticed price as gone up now

After reading reviews about this kit as turning out like a Rose rather than a Merlot type red, I added 500g frozen sweet cherries, 250g mixed dried berries and 1kg of Demerara sugar (plus usual table sugar as per instructions) as adjuncts to the must to give it some more body and colour. Well, it turned out like a mildly sour, dry Rose anyway but not unpalatable. I will leave it for a few weeks mellowing out in secondary before bottling. I certainly wouldn't drink it after primary fermentation as advertised! I wouldn't buy it again but if it's your first go at homebrew it's OK.