Guides
How to Give Wine Making as a Gift
What a gift card amount covers at Island Wine Experts, from a four-week kit to wine made in the shop.
What Does It Cost to Make Your Own Wine on PEI?
The per-bottle cost of each Winexpert range, made at home or made in the shop in Charlottetown, with the math shown.
How Winexpert Limited Edition Pre-Orders Work
Five wines each year, reserved ahead and arriving one per month. How Limited Edition pre-orders work in Charlottetown.
Can You Serve Homemade Wine at a Wedding on PEI?
Where homemade wine is allowed at a PEI wedding, how many kits to make for your guest count, and when to start.
Island Mist: A Light, Sweet Wine Kit to Start With
Light, sweet fruit wines at 6% alcohol, ready in about four weeks. Every Island Mist flavour, sorted by colour.
How to Split a Wine Kit With Friends
How friends share one or two Winexpert kits, split the cost and the bottles, and mix and match wines.
Are Winexpert Wine Kits Made in Canada?
Where Winexpert kits are made, where the juice comes from, and the limited-release Merlot made with Niagara grapes.
Classic, Reserve or Private Reserve: Which Winexpert Kit Should You Choose?
How Winexpert's ranges differ in juice, time and price, and how to choose one for the way you drink.
Bottling Day: Bottles, Corks and What to Bring
How many bottles one kit fills, how to get reused bottles ready, and what to bring on bottling day.
How to Store and Age Homemade Wine
What to do with 29 bottles of new wine: the first few days, the right temperature, and longer aging.
Red, White, Rosé or Fruit Wine: What Kinds of Wine Can You Make From a Kit?
Reds, whites, rosés and fruit wines, dry to sweet and light to full-bodied, and which Winexpert range makes each.
How Long Does a Wine Kit Take to Make?
Four to eight weeks to bottle, depending on the kit, and ideally another month in the bottle. What happens on each day.