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Winemaking: Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home
by Stanley F. Anderson, Dorothy Anderson
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Paperback 284 pages (1st
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Book Description:
A solid reference work for
making home wines
If you've 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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Bonus Selection:
Techniques In Home Winemaking (Revised & Expanded) A Practical Guide to Making Chateau-Style Wines
by Daniel Pambianchi
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Paperback 294 pages (2nd Edition,
February 2002)
Book Description:
A competent guide to making
premium grape wines at home
This is a very good book, geared toward achieving good wine from average grapes through proven methods of balancing aroma, body, clarity, color, taste, and style. In all, it succeeds in achieving these goals.
It also contains a number of very valuable appendices. But the whole of the book is peppered with detailed and useful charts, tables and illustrative figures. I highly recommend this book.
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P9-15: The Lure of the Vine
by Thomas Dewolf
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Paperback 116 pages (1st
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Book Description:
A story of breeding the
impossible grape
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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