I have seen Chardonnay and Merlot wine kits from a company called
Viniology advertised on the web. Haven't seen any mention of them in
this newsgroup. They're quite inexpensive. Has anybody tried them?
Gotten reasonable results?

Generally "inexpensive" means "lacking in Body, flavour, vinosity(?).....
usw!!!!!!!"

If you appreciate wine in its many different aspects and you are going to
use a "kit" then please do go as far upmarket as you can.
"Inexpensive" does create shudders in more than my mind when one is talking
about wine in general and wine kits in particular.
But there are some very good results from wine kits -- particularly white
wines --- red wines are more problematical!
So with white wine kits you can veer to the less expensive but with reds do
that at your peril!


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"geo" > wrote in message
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>I have seen Chardonnay and Merlot wine kits from a company called
> Viniology advertised on the web. Haven't seen any mention of them in
> this newsgroup. They're quite inexpensive. Has anybody tried them?
> Gotten reasonable results?
>

I have just been looking at the "Boreal Laboratories Ltd" website which is
marketing/making the Viniology kits. I should have done that before making
my first post on this subject --- sorry!

My first further comment is that they are not what I would call
"inexpensive".

At $40.20 for 15 bottles -- or over $80 for 30 bottles for a 5 gal
(imp)/23 litre batch which I normally make.
Having searched the US online shops it seems that a typical price for a
"Selection International" wine kit is about $80 ( I pay about £55 + in UK)
Which puts the Viniology kits at the top end of the price bracket for wine
kits!

Boreal seem to be a company specialising in Classroom science equipment!
That being the case, I personally wouldn't touch them with a bargepole!!!!!!
They are certainly NOT inexpensive and appear to have no track record and
their website is not forthcoming in any further information about the 2
wines kits ( only 2!)

You will realise that I am only expressing my personal opinion here!

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> Generally "inexpensive" means "lacking in Body, flavour, vinosity(?).....
> usw!!!!!!!"
>
> If you appreciate wine in its many different aspects and you are going to
> use a "kit" then please do go as far upmarket as you can.
> "Inexpensive" does create shudders in more than my mind when one is
> talking
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Apparently, Boreal is asking for a pretty hefty price for the Viniology
kits.
If you shop around a bit, you can easily beat the $40 price that
they're asking.
Let's start on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5277 991&rd=1
*NEW* Viniology CHARDONNAY Wine Kit price: US $19.95

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6641 268&rd=1
Viniology Merlot Zinfandel Wine Kit..... price: US $21.95

Those are the "buy it now" prices. You might save a few bucks if you
bid in the auction.
Or, if you don't like ebay, try http://www.crucible.org/lab_kits.htm
where you can find them for $30.

Of course that doesn't include shipping, but I assume Boreal would
charge you shipping too...

-geo