Cabernet Sauvignon from Kit - 16 fl oz squeezed blueberry juice added to fermentation
Batch Five. Fontana Cab kit with about 16 fl oz of mostly blueberries picked and juiced from frozen bag of organic three berry mix. This was added during fermentation. Yeast completed in March and bottled yesterday to make room. 6 Gallon kit but did 5G and then after fermentation and sitting / whipping - put into 3 - 1.5G glass containers with oak chips and air stops. 21 bottles from about 4.2G after racking to bucket and bottling. Wife liked it - less oak than I usually do.
I was at a friends bday party last week and everyone really enjoyed my first batch which was also the Fontana cab kit with nothing added except the combo French and American oak chips. That was about 10 months old now. Its a very good bottle of wine and its about $5 to make. I will do that again and I want to try this same cab again with only 8-10oz of juiced fresh blueberries only.
They also liked the Chardonnay that was back-sweetened with some concentrated apple juice and one with a little tangerine and orange in the fermentation that was batch two and four.
Batch three was a cab with probably 30 oz+ of squeezed 3 berry juice and its a little strong on the fruit/berry side and not a hit like the original which I agree. 🤙
Im in Honolulu so very limited. Fontana on Amazon works for sure. No affiliation. I think the original cab at 5g and perhaps a small amount of berry with 1 year age could easily be a $40+ bottle.