Customer Reviews

The Art of Making Wine (Plume)

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Very helpful book for those who are just getting started in the making of wine and a valuable tool for those who have been making wine for a while. Covers all of he basics and gives good advice for those moments when you are scratching your head saying "now what do I do?" or "how did that happen?"

This book is an excellent "how to" book for making any kind of wine. It is easy to follow and well written.

this book is exactly what my husband was looking for & the price was right!!!
so glad we found it here!!!!

This is the best all around beginning winemaking book that I have come across! It is easy to read and understand. The principles are accurately presented in easy to understand terms. Beginning recipes are given using concentrates and fruit. Equipment use is explained. A glossary is included.

We have a small orchard with grapes and various fruits and wanted to make wine from the excess fruit. We contacted an extension agent we knew with this knowledge and he suggested this book. We found it to be informative and detailed. A good texted book. It helped us with the chemistry of wine making, especially when dealing with fruits other then grapes.

This book is not about wine making; it is about make fruit-flavored fermented drinks. Fruit not sweet enough? No problem, add sugar. Fruit not acidic enough? No problem, add tartaric acid. Wrong yeast on the skins? No problem, we will kill that yeast anyway (and use the perfect yeast we get from the homebrew store). Make perfect wine everytime; hey, Macdonalds can do it with hamburgers. And that's what this book promises: learn the "secrets" of commercial wine producers. Altogether very dispiriting. This is the kind of thinking that is ruining the wine industry today (except that 2 percent or so doing sort-of organic wine).

I have used the receipt for bluberry wine for 3 years with one exception: I use 3 lbs of frozen , wild bluberries and 3 large contaners of frozen white grape (skip the raisens) concentrate and have made the best red wine in years,,,, similar to MERLOT but with outstanding color and flavor.