Cantina

T he wine kits of Hambleton Bard's Cantina 5-day series are produced from Italian quality grape juices. The supplies of grapes come from the northern Italian regions of Emilia and Tuscany.  Hambleton Bard prefer northern Italian grapes to the more common southern ones from Spain or south Italy because the cooler climate tends to produce higher quality grape, with a more clean and complex wine as the result.

W ith the help of a recently developed, highly specialized yeast/nutrient mix these kits are able to ferment a wine in just 4 days (the 5th is used for clearing) and still retain most of the grape qualities. During the development of this winekit Hambleton Bard found that the using high quality grape concentrate becomes more important the faster the fermentation. For a 4-day fermentation, only a few European concentrates will work well.

I t is possible to ferment even faster, ultimately down to one day only but this will result in a massive loss of quality and to make it taste anything like a wine, most of the wine flavour will have to be added artificially afterwards. This is not the case with Cantina kits, since the creaters believe in a more natural way of producing wine.

C antina wine 5 day wine kits that make 21 litres of wine. Based on a recently developed superfast wine yeast. Only the best Italian grape juices are used for the Cantina wine kits.