This is going to be a tough post to answer (perhaps) since everyone
has different wine preferences/buying habits/etc.

My wife and I have our favourite commercial wines: a Mondavi
Johanesburg Riesling (~$11 Canadian) for white and an Australian Wolf
Blass Pinot Noir (~$15 Canadian) for red. I have 4 different kits on
the go right now -- on three of them I went with the premium $100+
kits. Included in that set is a Pinot Noir and a J.Riesling.

The wines have all aged nearly a month now and I did a mass racking
this weekend to get them off the sediment. After this I plan to age
each another 6 months bulk and 2 months bottle minimum.

I, of course, tasted each wine as I racked them. I've got to
say...not really impressive at all. Perhaps equivalent to some cheap
boxed wine.

So I've got to ask: will I be able to have something comparable to
the commercial wines my wife and I enjoy after aging? The whole idea
was for us to save some money by making them ourselves, yet if we have
to endure lower quality wine then there's no real point.