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The Joy of
Home Winemaking


The Joy of Home Winemaking
by Terry Garey

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If you've never made wine before and would like to try it, this is the book for you. It is well written, rich in anecdotes, and easily understood. If you've made wine for years and think you know what you're doing, I'm willing to bet you that The Joy of Home Winemaking will teach you much more than a mere thing or two.

The Joy of Home Winemaking is much more than a primer for making wine at home. The beginner invariably expects an identifiable relationship between the color, flavor and bouquet of the raw ingredients and the finished wine. While such a relationship exists, it is not the one that beginning winemakers expect. Garey goes where few have attempted to go before. She wants you to know what you will get, and that requires more than simply adjusting your expectations.

To accomplish this, Garey explains the principles and, to some degree, the chemistry that underlies the processes at work when wine is being made. She explains flavor extraction better than most, which spices produce which qualities, which fruits and vegetables complement each other when combined in the crock, which herbs and flowers work and which don't, and so on. The result is not merely education, but firm understanding, and that is requisite to experimentation and invention. She does this better than most, and for that alone she should be read and reread. (Reviewed by Jack Keller)

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Winemaking: Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home
by Stanley F. Anderson, Dorothy Anderson

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If you're a tenderfoot beginner or have never before made wine but want to try it, or if you've been making it for years but simply want a solid recipe or reference work, Winemaking : Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home is a good place to start.

The Andersons have written a book anyone can use. The writing is not always straightforward and concise, but it is lay-oriented, and you won't need a degree in chemistry to understand it. For the beginner, it is a good primer. For the advanced winemaker, it will be instantly understandable and useful.

As another reviewer pointed out, this is a book to be used. The spiral binding allows you to open the book to the recipe you want and lay it on the counter without using weights to hold it open. While some of the recipes may need adjustments to the amounts of the ingredients listed, as a recipe developer I can assure you this is unavoidable. Fruits, berries, grapes, and grape concentrates vary in the amounts of sugar, acidity, tannin, and pectin they contain. Still, the Andersons' recipes are good places to start.(Reviewed by Jack Keller)

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P9-15: The Lure of the Vine
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For many years, grape farmers in the southern United States have dreamed of creating an ideal grape by combining the strength and disease resistance of the Muscadine grape with the traditional wine quality of the Vinifera grape. In P9-15: The Lure of the Vine, Thomas DeWolf chronicles the attempts to hybridize the species. While many researchers concluded that it was impossible to hybridize the two grapes because of a difference in chromosome counts, other dedicated, far-sighted individuals persevered and created hybrids that are flourishing today.

The breeding program began with the first successful Muscadine/Vinifera hybrid made by Charles Dearing in 1917, and continued up to the present time. From Dearing’s early cross to the discovery of the ultimate hybrid, P9-15, and its main offspring, Southern Home, DeWolf carries the reader beyond the bare scientific facts and breathes life into a fascinating story of discovery. (Reviewed by Amazon.com)


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