"Crushendo" California Santa Ynez Valley Syrah
The classic grape of France's Rhone Valley, Syrah is prized for deeply
colored, full-bodied wines. In Santa Barbara County the valleys run east to
west, and open to the cooling breezes of the Pacific Ocean. These ideal growing
conditions make for incredible grapes.
This Syrah has room filling aromas of blackberry, smoke, plum, "jammy" fruit and
even a hint of black pepper spiciness lurking in the intense velvety tannins. The
flavors go on and on, with blackberry, blueberry, herbs, black currant toast and
vanilla.
To complement this amazing palette of flavors, the Crushendo grape pack
brings real grape tannin and character, and the special RC 212 yeast enhances
the already spectacular fruit. Right out of the carboy this wine will have intense,
gripping tannins, and although drinkable immediately, it will open up and
blossom into a wine of unique power and elegance over two to four years.
Explaining Crushendo
The key to making red wine is in the skin of
the grapes.
The flesh of red grapes is pale yellow: most of the
color, flavor, and aroma compounds lie within
the skin. Traditional winemaking includes the
skin in with the fermenting wine to extract these
compounds. Until now, wine kits have been made
with unfermented juice soaked with skins, but without
alcohol (by law, kits can't contain alcohol).
As a result, some of the compounds were very
difficult to extract.
Now, by including the skins, and packaging them
separately, Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo kits
can deliver every nuance, all of the tannin, the
brilliant colors and flavors of a super-premium red
wine, with all the ageing potential and lush flavors
of the best commercial wines.
And it's easy! Winexpert Estate Series Crushendo
is as easy to make as our other Estate Series kits.
The Crushendo grape pack and the ultra-premium
vineyard-designated juices give brilliant aromas and
flavors, and a velvety tannic grip, to make a wine of
unique and piercing intensity.
- Instructions
- Contains 18 litres of concentrated verietal juice, yeast and all required additives
- Yields 6 gallons of wine or about 30 750ml bottles
- Ready to bottle in 8 weeks
- Age 6-12 months
