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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.872
EAN: 9781580172097
ISBN: 1580172091
Label: Storey Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: July 01, 2000
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Studio: Storey Publishing, LLC

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A complete reference for the home winemaker. From getting started with the very first batch to advanced techniques for making wines from grapes, this book covers it all. Includes detailed instructions and helpful hints for using concentrates, kits, juices, fruits, and herbs to create a wide variety of homemade wines.






Rating: - Fill these Pages Please
This book could be reduced to one half or one third pages. The '115 great tasting' wines part of this book is essentially a repetition of the same basic formula over and over with only a few wines with some variation from one to the next. Basic operations are described, but I was hoping for a bit more of fine pointers. It is a good starter basic book. But save a few trees and streamline at the risk of looking like there is no content, or add some.

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Rating: - Best Beginners Book Out There
As a newcomer to home winemaking I found this book to be well organized, well writen and informative. It has all the details necessary to do the job properly without being overly technical. The author has a list of all the necessary equipment and a list of things that are "nice to have." I did some research on the author and he is recognized as one of the premier wine experts in the country.

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Rating: - For Grape Growers
This is a book from my Christmas List and is great if you want recipes on how to convert all your grapes in to wine. However, if you are looking for a book that provides you with technical information about wine making, and a substantial number of country wines, you may need to look elsewhere. It was hard to review because although it has a great selection of grape recipes, it lacks the detail I was looking for on how to make wine, and develop wine recipes from scratch, unless I missed it.

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Rating: - my review
a very good book to start with. has many traditional wines. all in different catagories according to the grape. i used the peach and white grape recipe for my first try. everyone absolutley loves it.

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Rating: - A valuable adjunct to any winemaker's library
Gene Spaziani and Ed Halloran have written a book that needed to be written. The first three chapters are the obligatory "how to make wine" chapters ("Getting Started," "Essential How-Tos" and "Wine from Kits"). These have been done better by others, but the book would be incomplete without them.

The meat of this book begins with chapter 4, "Wine from Concentrates." And what a chapter it is, covering 13 specific white wine concentrates (Chenin Blanc to Vino Blanc) and 13 specific red wine concentrates (Barbera to Zinfandel), with recipes and step-by-step instructions for each (all suspiciously similar, but if the shoe fits....).

Chapter 5 is "Wine from Juices," and it does a superb job with 15 white grape juices (Chardonnay to Vidal Blanc), 15 red grape juices (Barbera to Zinfandel again, but many in between are different) and one blush.

Chapter 6, "White Wine from Grapes," covers 20 great grapes, from Aurora French-American Hybrid to Vidal Blanc ... Read More

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