SG Wine Kits are one of the commonly accessible kits for both red and white wines, but what are the different tiers for?

I contacted SG Wines for some further information regarding their kits, the below information is what I understand based on this information - but it should be noted the exact weights of each product could vary between wine type, year of manufacture, and may not be exact as this wasn't clearly found in many places.

Classic

Priced around £19.95 (as of 2025)

Classic Kits are the base kit, containing a concentrate base and a 'flavouring add-back' which is added at the end of fermentation. Requires additional sugar.

Classic kits stick to basics, such as red, white, or rosé, without going grape variety styles.

Some figures put these as being around a 2kg shipping weight for the kit in total.

Gold

Priced around £21.95 (as of 2025)

Classic Kits contain the same concentrate base as Classic kits, but contain more of, and a 'more premium' flavouring add-back compared to the Classic kits. Requires additional sugar.

Gold kits move away from basic red/white/rose categories and instead start moving towards specific styles of grape.

Online figures suggest these are around 2.5kg total shipping weight, reflecting the extra post-fermentation flavouring addition.

Platinum

Priced around £34.95 (as of 2025)

Premium kits, unlike Classic and Gold, do not contain any flavouring add-back, but contain a significantly higher amount of fermentable liquid to begin with. This is much more like fermenting your own wine from grapes than other options.

Requires no additional sugar.

Online figures suggest these kits ship with a weight of around 6 to 7kg, but this may be different per wine.

Essentially, both Classic and Gold are aimed at a more affordable price point, where the small amount extra to upgrade to a Gold kit provides you with more flavouring add-back, helping reduce the 'wine kit' thinness you might experience on the Classic.

The Gold kits also give you more style-customisation than the Classics, going from picking a wine based on if it's red or white to styles such as Merlot or Pinot Grigio.

The Platinum kit is more expensive, but contains the most grape concentrate of the three, helping produce the most flavourful and solid wine base.

At the end of the day, each kit states it can produce around 30 bottles - even if you go for a higher concentrate and make 25 bottles, the cost per item is still significantly lower than the cheapest supermarket wines out there.

Personally, I would use the cheaper kits if I planned on modifying them - such as using a white wine base to add honeys, creating a pyment, or adding other fruits in making more of a country-wine style product, where the wine base may have less impact on the final flavour. If I'm making 30 bottles of wine to drink as the kits want me to, I'd rather spend the small amount extra. After all, will you really be worrying about the 50p extra per bottle you spent 6 months later when you're drinking it - or will you be wishing you spent it to have a better product?