This stuff is great! My second Merlot, and it's even better than my first.

These kits are fabulous, for a quick at home wine making experiment. If done right, and all steps are followed, you will have wine in the amount of time specified on the kit. We ordered (3) 1 gallon kits. A Malbec, Merlot, and a Pinot Grigio. All turned out as expected. They are very reliable. I would highly recommend.

Chilean Merlot Small Batch Wine Kit - Winexpert Classic 1 Gallon Kit

These small kits are really fantastic with consistently reliable, tasty, results. I've made a couple of these now (along with other varieties they sell in this size - Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio, Moscato) to supplement the fruit wines we typically prefer. It's great to have some classic dry wines around to offer to guests, or to use for cooking, or to drink myself when my husband wants something sweet and I'm in the mood for something dry.
To that end... we bottle these in ten, 375mL sized bottles, instead of full-sized 750mL bottles. That helps a lot, particularly if you have just one guest wanting a dry red and you don't want to open a full bottle that might not be needed.
These kits are also a really good way to start your kit wine-making hobby while also rapidly building up a good variety of homemade wines in your cellar.

The long and short of it is that I really like how this turned out. It’s very aromatic, smelling of raspberries and cherries. It took about 4-5 weeks to vinify and I left it in the bottle for another 3-4 weeks.
I only have room to do one-gallon batches, so this is perfect, but I am sad that there are only 5 bottles of this beautiful stuff.