Wine-Related Books

I enjoyed reading this book because it not only told me what to use for the different wines and meads, it also cautioned about what not to use. This includes both equipment and ingredients. The book goes through each step in detail, starting with sterilizing and taking you through all the way through opening and tasting the wine. It tells you about all the ingredients you will need as well as what each ingredient does. The book starts with grape wines, then onto fruit wines and wines that include flowers, nuts and vegetables.

The book includes many recipes under each section, with both metric and U.S. units of measurement and suggests foods that go great with each recipe. The directions are straight, and to the point all the while sharing the details you need to make the best wine and mead. The mead section talks about the history, variations, and ingredients involved in meads, melomels, and metheglins as well as recipes for variations of the three. For herb wine, the book explains grape wine bases and lists which herbs are good matches for red wine, white wine, honey wine, and aperitif wine bases. Since wine coolers and wine punches being simple to make, this section is mainly comprised of the recipes for coolers and punches.

As a reader with little expertise in the art of winemaking, I found this book to be very helpful. It was a very educational read all the while keeping explanations short and to the point. There are so many great recipes that are easy to understand and I'm sure are easy to follow to get the wine or mead of which you desire.

- Liz Vallish

Create you own backyard winery! From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine.

Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to:

-- Choose and prepare a vineyard site

-- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems

-- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate

-- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine

-- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste

GREAT GRAPES! GROW THE BEST EVER (Garden Way) From planting to harvesting, this book tells you how to grow grapes. 32 pages.

Written expressly for beginning and advanced amateurs, this guide explores home winemaking in practical terms, focusing on the latest fermentation techniques of both red and white wine grapes.

This new edition is more user-friendly than ever, containing an expanded offering of tips and advice to help winemakers obtain the best possible yield as well as descriptions of new yeasts, chemicals, and additives available. Detailed information on equipment, supplies, and how to arrange a source for good grapes as well as mistakes to avoid makes getting started easy.

Advanced winemakers will appreciate full explanations of sophisticated topics—such as malolactic fermentation, sparkling wines, concentrate kits, and blending—and listings of websites for supplementary information.

Italian Leather Wine Journal for those of us who like to keep tabs on the wines we make and/or drink! Great wine tasting journal.

Mead is honey wine. It is made when honey is diluted and allowed to ferment. Mead is thought by many to have been the first alcoholic beverage made by humans. Learn about honey, the equipment for making mead, yeasts and fermentation, recipes and formulas, fermentation, racking and aging, bottles, closures, sparkling mead, proples with mead making and home analysis and judging mead.

From making wine from kits and crushing grapes to bottling wine, this essential handbook enables you, the home winemaker to make informed decisions about ingredients, equipment, and the winemaking process.

Precise step-by-step instructions lead both novice and advanced winemakers through all of the important procedures, including selecting and working with new wine making equipment, determining the best material for specific styles, analyzing the product, monitoring and adjusting acidity levels, and common troubleshooting problems. Using accessible charts and tables to offer detailed instructions for making Pinot Noir, Port, and sparkling wines, this newly updated edition also covers often overlooked topics, such as Ice Wines and blending varieties of wines.

Anyone who ever wanted to have homemade wine and never thought they had the space or ability to make it will love this book. The Backyard Vintner is a handy guide to at-home wine making that teaches readers the tips and tricks of the trade. It is perfect for those who want to bring the feeling of wine country right into their own backyard.The Backyard Vintner teaches readers how to start and maintain a vineyard, providing vital information on topics such as planting, trellising, and proper pruning techniques for grapes; which grape varieties will grow best in every climate or region; and the wines that can be made from each variety. Basic recipes for wines, and advice on topics such as bottling, storing, and serving wines, are also provided.

Few pleasures are more gratifying than pouring a glass of fine wine, admiring its clarity and color, savoring its rich bouquet, raising it to your lips, and knowing that you made it yourself.

With this complete guide to home winemaking, such pleasures can be yours with little fuss and lots of fun! The Home Winemaker's Companion will guide you as you progress from making your very first batch of kit wine to mastering advanced techniques for making wine from fresh grapes. Included are Gene Spaziani's tried-and-true recipes for 115 delectable wines -- even port and champagne!