From bold reds and crisp whites to golden, honey-sweet mead—craft your own cellar-worthy creations with our easy-to-use kits.
Craft your own wine or mead at home with our easy starter kits and quality ingredients. Whether you’re fermenting a classic red, crisp white, or sweet honey mead, home brewing lets you enjoy personalised flavours and the satisfaction of creating your own handcrafted drinks.
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Mead Making Kit – everything you need to brew 5 litres of delicious honey mead at home. Includes glass demijohn, airlock, hydrometer, specialist mead yeast, sanitiser, siphon, and step-by-step instructions. Just add honey and water. Perfect for beginners and experienced brewers alike.
Known in the wine and beer industry as a wine thief. These handy devices allow you to minimise the disturbance of your fermentation by taking a sample of liquid off the top in those hard to reach barrels or carboys/demijohns.
Wine Making kit contains everything required (except a Wine Kit and bottles) to make wine and is ideal for the beginner who does not have any equipment.
Looking to craft your own exquisite wines? Our Ultimate Wine Making Kit – Cork is perfect for beginners and wine enthusiasts alike who want to start their winemaking journey without needing to purchase additional equipment. This comprehensive kit provides all the essential tools to make your own wine, right in the comfort of your home – all you need is a Winexpert Wine Kit and some bottles!
Important: This kit does not include consumables such as grape juice concentrate or other ingredients necessary to make wine.
Product Highlights:
All-Inclusive Equipment for Cork-Finished Bottles: Everything you need to start making wine, designed to work seamlessly with cork-finished bottles. Prefer screw-cap bottles? Check out our Wine Making Kit BVS.
Compatible with Winexpert Kits: Craft 23 liters or up to 30 x 750ml bottles of premium wine using any of our Winexpert 35-day Vintners Reserve Wine Kits. Available in various types and styles, these kits offer excellent flavor and quality.
Easy to Use and Clean: Our kit features two durable, food-grade plastic fermenters, designed for primary fermentation and racking. Unlike glass fermenters, these are sturdier, more versatile, and easier to handle without compromising wine quality.
it combines a cellulose and a pectinase. This enzyme can be added to the juice either at the macerating or clarification stages. This product improves clarity in wine processing, producing a cleaner product with improved storage stability. Dosage: 1ml per 10 litrs of fluid.
Campden tablets are used for sterilising and stabilising wine. Use 1-2 tablets per 5 litres. Crush and dissolve in a little warm water before adding to wine or must.
Citric acid is specified as an additive in many wine recipes. It is used as a final rinse after sterilising equipment to adjust the pH of the water used.
Used to increase acid in wine. Add 1 teaspoon per 5 litres as required.
Acid 100g is an essential tool for winemakers seeking to adjust acidity levels in their wines effectively. With its ease of use and reliable performance, this product allows you to achieve the ideal balance of flavors in your homemade or professional wines. Elevate the quality and taste of your wine creations with Malic Acid 100g, ensuring each batch meets your exacting standards.
Nutrient Yeast (50g) is a food grade diammonium phosphate designed to support yeast health and fermentation efficiency. As a key nitrogen source, it promotes rapid yeast multiplication, ensuring a strong, complete fermentation especially in high alcohol brews. Ideal for winemaking and brewing, it helps prevent sluggish or stuck fermentations.
Potassium Bicarbonate is an essential additive for winemakers looking to achieve the perfect balance in their homemade wines. This versatile compound is used to reduce excessive acidity by neutralizing and precipitating unwanted acids, resulting in a smoother and more palatable wine.
When added during the winemaking process, Potassium Bicarbonate effectively adjusts the pH level, helping to bring out the natural flavors of the wine without overpowering tartness. It works by forming potassium bitartrate, which precipitates out, leaving your wine with a refined and balanced taste.
Ideal for both novice and experienced winemakers, Potassium Bicarbonate is a reliable solution for managing acidity levels and ensuring your wine is enjoyable and well rounded.
Potassium Metabisulphite is an essential tool for every homebrewer and winemaker, providing robust protection against oxidation and microbiological attack. This versatile compound is used to sanitize equipment and bottles, preserving the quality and freshness of your brew.
When added to wine, mead, or cider, Potassium Metabisulphite acts as an antioxidant, preventing the growth of unwanted bacteria and yeast that can spoil your batch. It also helps stabilize the final product, ensuring your beverages remain crisp and delicious.
Ideal for both beginners and seasoned brewers, Potassium Metabisulphite is a must-have for maintaining the integrity of your homemade creations.
Potassium Sorbate is used in home brew wine, cider and mead making as a fermentation stopper or stabiliser.Add Potassium Sorbate at the end of primary fermentation.
This premium tannin powder, derived from chestnut, is a powerful winemaking additive used to enhance flavour, structure, and mouthfeel in both red and white wines. It contributes subtle astringency, improves ageing potential, and helps to balance sweetness and acidity.
Tannins play a key role in building complexity and ensuring a wine’s longevity, especially in styles that benefit from added bite or firmness.
Enhance your brewing and winemaking with our American Oak Chips – Not Toasted, perfect for adding oak character to a variety of beverages. Sourced from premium American oak, these chips are versatile and ready to use during fermentation or wine maturation, imparting natural oak flavors with hints of vanilla and wood. For spirit makers, they can also be toasted and used to create complex bourbon or honey bourbon profiles.
Experience the authentic flavor of France in your homebrew with French Oak Chips. Supplied by Winequip, these high-quality oak chips bring a refined and distinctive character to both wine and spirit production. Perfect for use during fermentation or added to finished spirits, these chips impart a rich depth of flavor that elevates your brew to the next level.
Best Yeast for Mead Mangrove Jacks Mead Yeast M05. A high ester-producing strain conferring fresh, floral esters, especially when fermented cool. This yeast has high alcohol tolerance and ferments well over a wide temperature range. Suitable for all styles of Mead.
An excellent white wine yeast that will contribute flavour and enhance the bouquets of the grapes during fermentation.Suggested use circa. 350LFor fresh, fruit-focussed whites reliable fermenter rated highly in thiol conversion to bring about enhanced aromatics
Lallemand EC1118 Champagne Yeas has been selected in a famous sparkling wine region for its excellent properties in producing sparkling base wine as well as “in-bottle” secondary fermentation.
It is very resistant to osmotic pressure. Lallemand EC1118 Champagne Yeas is known for its robust and reliable fermentation kinetics. Its sensory contribution is considered neutral as it gives very little sensory contribution to the wine. It is used extensively in the world for the production of both white and red wines.
Because of its limited solubility Calcium Carbonate is only effective when added directly to the mash. It raises pH and is normally used for making dark beers in areas of soft water.
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Introducing our 5L Demijohn Fermentation Set, the ultimate kit for home fermentation enthusiasts. Crafted with quality and convenience in mind, this set includes everything you need to kickstart your fermentation journey right at home.
Embarking on the journey of homebrewing opens up a world of possibilities, where creativity flows as freely as the brew itself. With the Glass Carboy Ultimate Brewing Kit, the joy of crafting your own cider, mead, beer, kombucha, ginger beer, and beyond becomes an accessible and rewarding experience.
Supplied with Standard 5L Demijohn/Carboy with black lid or swing clip
Not at all! Making wine at home is fun, surprisingly simple, and great for beginners—especially with a Vintners Reserve Wine Kit. If you already brew beer, you’re nearly there—just add a second fermenter, a wine syphon, and a few bottling accessories, and you’re good to go. The process takes a few extra weeks compared to beer, but it’s no more labour-intensive.
Each Vintners Reserve Wine Kit makes 28–30 bottles (700ml each), and they’re a hit with both first-time and repeat winemakers. Many customers say the quality rivals $15–$20 bottles from the store—so you can enjoy great-tasting wine and save money at the same time!
Mead is an ancient alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey with water, often enhanced with fruits, herbs, or spices. Unlike beer (which is made from grains) or wine (which is made from grapes), mead’s primary ingredient is honey—giving it a naturally sweet and floral profile. It comes in a variety of styles, from dry and complex to rich and fruity, making it a unique alternative for those looking to try something different.
Mead comes in a wide variety of styles, each offering unique flavours and ingredients. Traditional mead is made with just honey, water, and yeast, while variations like melomel include fruit, metheglin adds spices or herbs, and braggot blends mead with beer. You’ll also find creative twists like rhodamel (with rose petals) and capsicumel (with chili for a spicy kick). There’s truly a mead for every palate!
Wine typically takes 4–6 weeks, while mead can take 4–8 weeks or longer, depending on the style and whether you choose to age it for extra smoothness and depth of flavour.