What It Costs to Make Your Own Wine on PEI, Per Bottle

At Island Wine Experts' prices, a Winexpert kit made at home costs about $2.37 to $6.20 per bottle, before bottles and equipment, because each kit makes about 29 bottles. Having the shop make the wine adds $81.50 plus HST per kit, which brings the cost to about $5.61 to $9.43 per bottle.

How much does each wine kit cost per bottle?

The table divides each kit's price by 29 bottles. The made-in-the-shop column adds the $81.50 fee plus PEI's 15% HST on it, which comes to $93.73 per kit.

Range	Kit price	Made at home, per bottle	Made in the shop, per bottle
On the House	$69	about $2.37	about $5.61
Island Mist	$79	about $2.72	about $5.95
Classic	$99	about $3.41	about $6.64
Reserve	$138	about $4.75	about $7.99
Private Reserve	$180	about $6.20	about $9.43

The Limited Edition 2026 wines are $165 per kit, about $5.68 per bottle made at home. Revelation is $170 for a smaller kit of about 15 bottles, about $11.33 per bottle, and two Revelation kits made together in the shop pay one $81.50 fee.

What isn't included in the kit price?

Bottles and corks are separate. Winexpert's instructions call for 28 to 30 bottles of 750 mL and corks for each kit, and customers can bring their own bottles or buy new ones in the shop. Bottles saved from earlier batches cost nothing beyond cleaning.

Making wine at home also takes basic winemaking equipment, which Winexpert lists in its instructions: a primary fermenter, a carboy, a hydrometer, siphon tubing and a bottle filler, among other items. Once bought, the equipment is used again for every kit after the first.

Is it cheaper to make wine at home or have the shop make it?

Making it at home is cheaper by $93.73 per kit, about $3.23 per bottle. The fee pays for the shop to ferment, stabilize and clear the wine at 238 University Ave, so no equipment is needed at home. Just for the final stage: bring your bottles in for bottling.

How do you compare kit wine with the wine you buy now?

Multiply the price of a bottle you usually buy by 29, then compare that with the kit total. At a made-up price of $15 per bottle, 29 bottles cost $435. A Classic kit made in the shop comes to $192.73 for the same number of bottles, and the same kit made at home comes to $99 plus bottles.

Use the price you usually pay, and compare it with a kit in a style you would drink anyway.

Can splitting a kit lower the cost?

Splitting does not change the cost per bottle, but it does lower what each person pays up front. Two people sharing a Reserve kit made in the shop pay about $115.87 each, and each takes home 14 or 15 bottles.

Every kit page at Island Wine Experts shows the kit price and about what it works out to per bottle. See the wine kits and prices, or read how on-site wine making works if you would rather the shop made it.