Customer Reviews

Vino Italiano 4 Week Wine Kit, Moscato, 15.5-Pound Box

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

A very nice wine kit for the price. Makes a very enjoyable white wine. With kits in this price range (and perhaps all wine kits in general), the white wines tend to be ready to drink earlier and are closer to their commercial counterparts. As far as one viewer's complaint of it not including the necessary equipment ... c'mon. When you buy a brownie mix do you expect the pan to be included? It's got all the ingredients you need to make 6 gallons of wine. If you like white Italian wines this kit will make a nice table wine for less then $2 a bottle.

I had been looking for a couple weeks for a Mascato wine making kit and when I found this one I was cautous because it was so cheap, but I purchased it anyway. The wine is now made and bottled but I got to sample it before it was bottled and it was DELICOUS!!!! I loved it and I do plan on buying more for sure. Thanks Amazon for a great price!!!!!

I am new to the wine making hobby and I really enjoyed these kits. I had a Mother's Day party and the wine was the hit. Everyone wanted a bottle to take home. Which was great, that was an easy inexpensive gift for lots of people. The price is unbelievable, and if you are a casual drinker, then you will never know the difference between this an a 10.00 bottle. I let it ferment a little longer, due to inexperience. I also added some sugar because it was drier than I liked. I boiled the sugar in water then slowly added it to the wine batch a little at a time, till I got the flavor I liked. Then I let is sit a few more weeks. It was great and easy. I am ordering two more today. Alcohol content was kinda high, but that turned out to be a good thing. It taste best with a little chill on it.

When I read the bad reviews it made me leary to do this wine kit, but I said what the hay for 45 bucks you can always make mistakes.

So the kit came in the mail and I was a little shocked. Just a few things came in and I was wondering if I was missing some stuff. After looking around the net I found that was all that was needed.

So I read the instructions and they were pretty good but I am visual person. So I found some videos and it looked really simple. I was wrong. It was super simple. The instructions have everything you need.

I really liked the tips at the end. So I got my stuff going and dumped everything my carboy. I was sickened that it only took 30 mins. I was hoping for a 4 hour ordeal. Ohh well.

So after the primary fermentation it was time to move to secondary. I always wondered why the 2nd. Well I learned why and it made me smarter. I have this wine and it is cloudy as all get out. I degassed my wine and wondered if this was really going to clear.

Keeping the faith I added the last ingredients and put it in my fermentation fridge and set the temp to the low required side. After a few days that puppy was clear as water with a little color. I was amazed. So now it is close to the end and I am ready to bottle.

So my wife wants a sweet moscato. So we taste it and it is dry. So I pull 1 gallon out to sweeten to a point that we like without having to do the whole batch. We come to an agreement and decide to sweet just enough because they say it will get sweeter as it ages. So I make s simple syrup and get the wine sweetened. After all is done I still have ¾ of a gallon bottle of un sweetened wine. I go ahead and bottle that because I am interested in how sweet it really gets as it mellows out. So when the wine is young it has a little bit of hee haw. But it has since mellowed and is fabulous. We have a couple of commercial wines and I think I like mine the best. We will do a blind wine test to see who wins.

All in all a great wine kit. Make sure you have the tools. 2 - 6 gallon carboy, long handled (24 inches min) stirring device. A degassing whip (makes the degassing easy and fast) Corker, turkey baster (to pull samples) and bottles. A dedicated fridge to make sure the fermentation temp and the clearing temp is right on. That's it folks. In a month you will have a young wine with some great characteristics. In a month more this wine should be really really yummy.

I got a wine making equipment kit for Christmas and couldn't wait to make some wine. After browsing for hours, I came across the Vino Italiano kits. I was surprised at the price and what was included. I purchased the Moscato kit and have made it. It's not bottled yet, so I'm not sure how it tastes. The instructions are very easy to follow. As long as you have the proper equipment to ferment and bottle the wine, these kits are a breeze. I can't wait to taste it. I will surely purchase another variety! Can't beat the price! And free shipping, Are you kiddin' me?! Buy some now!

This is a very poor representation of a Moscato wine.. I still gave it 4 stars because it is a good tasting, very light white wine.. I backsweetened with 250ml of wine conditioner which took it just off dry. The taste, to me, is more like an un-oaked chardonnay, and I am very glad I backsweetened to add some body and flavor to it. Overall I am happy with the outcome of this wine, but it doesn't have the characteristic peach, orange flavors that the Muscat/Moscato wine has to it. I still think these kits are an unbelievable bargin considering corks, labels, capsules are included.. Won't be using the labels that came with this kit though.. Remember to keep your expectations low, and you will probably be surprised by these kits.. Do not be afraid to tweak them!

I bought this product about 6 months ago and successfully made about 25 bottles of wine. Wine was ready in about 6 weeks. Wine is good. I just added a bit of sweetener at the end to make it taste just right. The only thing you'll need outside of this kit is glue to attach labels to the bottles.

First off, this is a $35 kit. Don't compare it to the $70 kits you buy at your local wine shop.
That being said, I purchased this, made it (using my own equipment, of course), and love to drink it. I'm not the only one, my guests have appreciated this also.

I followed other members suggestion of only making 5 gallons from this kit. My father did the same kit and made the instructed 6 gallons. We compared the two and decided that my wine with more body and was more complex; the flavor tended to linger more. Next time, he will do 5 gallons.
I back sweetened w/ regular domino sugar. I don't remember the ratio, but it wasn't a lot.

Bottom line, i like it. This is my opinion. You may just not like this grape. I liked it enough to purchase a second box.

I am somewhat new to winemaking, and I wanted to start off with a less expensive kit to make sure that I knew what I was doing. This kit was an absolutely wonderful experience. All previous wines I had made were from frozen concentrates or, in the case of an apple wine, fresh pressed juice.

The instructions in the kit were very clear and easy to follow. They even provided the specific gravity that you should be looking for at each stage to tell you that it is time to move forward. I found this really helpful as it took out any guess work. The kit also provided some information on optional steps, such as back-sweetening and filtering.

My wine has now cleared and is almost ready to bottle. The end product is a little dry, so I do plan on back-sweetening it some. I fear that my biggest challenge with this wine will be keeping my wife out of it until it has had some time to age. I will try to come back and edit once it has done so. All signs so far point to this kit being a wonderful success.

I would definitely recommend this kit, especially to those new to winemaking. I plan to try some other Vino Italiano kits in the future.

UPDATE: Just bottled this wine last night. It did require a little back-sweetening to be up to my wife's standards. I honestly could have left it as it was. I plan on waiting at least a couple of weeks with it in bottle before I open one. I think it will be very good once it has a chance to sit for a few months.

This is a great wine kit for the price. Having been making wine for some time now... and trying all the different varieties of kits... I have of course had much better and I am certain there are much worse. I prefer a sweeter wine, so I ended up sweetening this a bit more at the end. I am a tad confused at the people that thought they would have everything included in the box.... but I suppose that is because if you aren't familiar with the hobby, one wouldn't know. The initial expense of wine making is always a bit high, considering you need to have the fermenters and carboys and all the other paraphernalia and the kits are available as a great alternative to buying or growing the type of grapes you need, and having to crush them and do all that labor involved. It still takes time and wine needs to age. But overall, as kits go for this price, I think this is a great bargain. I have spent over $100 on others without a thought. Not only is it a very nice table wine, it's also very inexpensive to make if you already have your basic equipment. I would recommend it, especially because the instructions are very easy to understand, and there are not a lot of components in this as opposed to when you make wines from scratch. The corks and labels are nice, though I make my own labels. And the free shipping is a huge bonus.