Cru Select Italian Brunello

i see you made one of these kits .... i was wondering if i could ask you some questions .. ..
i got a tin foil package in the kits smells a bit sweet but there is no way to find out what it is in the directions .. with two wood packages i am assuming it is not that .. what about finishing stuff .. or sweetener ? those i have never come acrossed .. well any help would be appriciated

This is a third package of oak, added during day 1.

Ok so they showed up after I posted thats good, but it would have been nicer if I new the previous comments before I posted.
Sorry for testing the comments section here , but ti wasn't working before I posted.
While we are reviewing I suggest the Rosso Grande , either the Cellar Classic winery series or
just the Cellar classic. There I made it kinda related , unfortunately not to this wine type.

Well maybee we can test the moderators as well . Fell free to delete , move or otherwise dismember any or all of these two posts.

Got 30 bottles plus 2 glasses.

Added 3 crushed campden tabs and poured into the Brunello an hour before bottling. Put 30 One-Step cleaned bottles into the new dishwasher and used the "Sanitize" setting. The bottles were way too hot to touch after that! I let them cool off and sterlilzed with sulfite solution right before filling. The wife did the filling and I sterilized the next 5 bottles and the next 5 corks. It took about an hour to finish, including washing the filled bottles afterwards to get all of the stickey stuff off. They are sitting in the bathtub for a day or two so there isn't any cork-popping worries, but the wine was dead flat, so I'm not worried.

The bottom half-inch was racked into a half-gallon bottle and I let it settle until this afternoon, when I poured 2 glasses out of it. It is young, still has a bit of a bite, but really good. Heavy red wine with strong oak and berry flavor. Not quite a Brunello, but close to a Rosso. I'll give it 6 months for the first bottle to be opened and make another taste test. 18 months will make this close to a $50 bottle, I'm guessing...its that good.

Now, where is that time machine...

has any one tryed this wine

Now that mine has sat for close to 2 years, I have opened a few bottles.

Fan-Frickin-Tastic!

Great noes. Lots of flavor, nice and mellow, may be a bit too much oak for my tastes, but others do like that in an Italian wine.

Strongly recommended (IF YOU KNOW WHAT A BRUNELLO IS)

My supplier store personnel convinced me to bottle 4 to 6 half bottles for each kit at bottling time. I mark each half bottle (375ml) with date of bottling; type of wine; and kit type on masking tape. Saves formal labels, I open one of these every 4 to 6 months to test progress of wine. That way, if it is not as good as I want, do not lose a full bottle. this size bottle is also great for Christmas gifts. I admit, I am selfish and do not want to give away my wine.