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Bundles

The shopping lists we already wrote

Friends keep asking us what to buy. So we wrote down the answers. Each bundle is a curated list of products — not a single box — covering one specific moment in winemaking.

An organized flat-lay of home winemaking supplies on a wooden workbench: glass carboy, fermenter bucket, auto-siphon, tubing, airlocks, thermometer strip, heating belt, hydrometer, spoon, brushes, sanitizer, cleaner, bottle tree, and floor corkerRuss's Pick #115 items

Russ's Favorite Beginner Supply Bundle

Every supply a first-time winemaker needs — minus the wine itself. Russ has other bundles, but this is the one he hands you on day one.

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A flat-lay of bottling day supplies on a wooden workbench: empty dark green wine bottles, a brass floor corker, natural and synthetic corks, burgundy shrink capsules, and a stack of printed wine labelsThree months later10 items

Bottling Day Bundle

You've waited. The wine's clear. Now it's bottling weekend — and these are the supplies that make it not feel like work.

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A flat-lay of home winemaking cleaning and sanitation supplies on a wooden workbench: PBW powder, Star San bottle, One Step cleanser tub, spray bottle, long-handled brush, and a box of nitrile glovesThe boring half9 items

Cleaning & Sanitation Starter Kit

The shelf that saves your batch. Cleaning is not sanitizing. Sanitizing is not cleaning. You need both.

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An autumn flat-lay with red maple leaves: a white plastic juice pail of fresh red grape juice, a foil sachet of wine yeast, a small jar of yeast nutrient, a large white funnel, and a pile of French oak cubesHarvest season10 items

Fresh Juice Pail Bundle (Fall)

When you decide to skip the kit and ferment a 6-gallon pail of California juice, this is what you add to the beginner setup.

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A workshop flat-lay of premium home winemaking equipment: a stainless steel Speidel fermenter, a glass demijohn, a Vinmetrica SO2 analyzer, a digital pH meter, an electric transfer pump, and Hungarian oak stavesRuss's Pick #210 items

Russ's Big-Batch Mass Production Bundle

Four batches a year. Forty pounds of grapes at a time. This is the gear that makes that scale work without losing your mind.

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A cellar-mood flat-lay of premium red wine aging supplies: an Amarone wine kit box, a glass carboy of dark deep ruby aging red wine, French oak cubes, natural wine corks, an argon wine preserver, and burgundy shrink capsulesTwelve-month patience10 items

Premium Red Wine Aging Bundle

Built around an Amarone or Cab kit you plan to age 12 months or more. Get the oak, the SO2, and the bottling right and you'll surprise yourself.

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A bright sunny flat-lay of white and rosé winemaking supplies: a Chardonnay wine kit box, a glass carboy of pale golden white wine, a foil sachet of white wine yeast, synthetic corks, and a refractometerCrisp & cold9 items

White & Rosé Summer Bundle

A lighter setup for whites and rosés you'll drink within a year. Cooler ferments, synthetic corks, less oak, more refreshment.

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A laboratory-style flat-lay of wine testing instruments: a glass hydrometer in a cylinder of red wine, a brass refractometer, a digital pH meter, a Vinmetrica SO2 analyzer, an acid titration kit, and a long plastic wine thiefGet serious8 items

Testing & Measurement Upgrade Kit

Stop guessing. Hydrometer, refractometer, pH, SO2, acid — the instruments that turn a hobby into a craft.

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A holiday flat-lay arranged like a present: a clear PET Fermonster fermenter, an auto-siphon, a bottle of Star San, a hydrometer, a long stirring spoon, and a wine kit box wrapped in kraft paper with twineIt's a gift7 items

Gift Bundle: For a New Winemaker

What you actually buy a friend who said 'that sounds fun.' Enough to make wine, not so much it scares them off.

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