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Pattie Vargas (Author), Rich Gulling (Author)
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January 8, 1999
Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes! Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels-there's no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard! You'll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including: Apricot Wine, Dry Mead, Marigold Wine, Almond Wine, Cherry Melomel, Cranberry Claret, Pea Pod Wine, Lemon-Thyme Metleglin, Strawberry Wine, and Rose Hip Melomel 

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Go Wild!

Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes!

Elegant, exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels -- there's no end to great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard!

You'll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including:

-- Apricot Wine

-- Dry Mead

-- Marigold Wine

-- Almond Wine

-- Cherry Melomel

-- Cranberry Claret

-- Peapod Wine

-- Lemon-Thyme Metheglin

--Strawberry Wine

-- Rose Hip Melomel

About the Author

Pattie Vargas is an avid home winemaker. He is co-author of several books on the subject, including Cordials from Your Kitchen and Country Wines, which has been revised and is now titled Making Wild Wines & Meads. Pattie is the Editorial Project Manager at Mazer Corporation and has won several awards. She is a member of the National Press Women's Association and National Council for the Social Studies. Pattie has three children and four grandchildren.

Besides working as an Internet consultant, She lives in Ohio.

Richard Gulling is an avid home winemaker. He is co-author of several books on the subject, including Cordials from Your Kitchen and Country Wines, which has been revised and is now titled Making Wild Wines & Meads. Richard is a pharmacy manager whose background in chemistry helped refine and modernize their winemaking process. He lives in Ohio.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; Revised edition (January 8, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1580171826
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580171823
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipies Using Herbs,, April 18, 2000
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From the novice vinter to a more experienced hand, this book is one of the better ones I have seen. At the start, the author describes and explains the homewine-making process, the equiptment necessary, the "lingo", and gives a desent time-line for completion. The recipies are usually simple and are for one-gallon batches. Some are a little weird, but it does say "unusual" in the title. A definate recommendation for anyone who is avidly homebrewing wine or mead.

Wassail!

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Finally!, November 4, 2004
This review is from: Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More (Paperback)
Many years ago when I started making my own wine, I had receipes for fruit wines including Pineapple, Strawberry and even a Strawberry/Vanilla wine. I lost that small book and went without for many years. If you have any interest in making fruit and herb wines (They Make Great Gifts!) then try this book. It will keep you busy for quite some time.
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring but some details are missing, December 14, 2004
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This review is from: Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More (Paperback)
I got this book for my first winemaking book, and used one of
the blackberry wine recipes for my first batch. The recipes
are just recipes, without the minute detail, and it was hard
to turn back and forth from the recipes to the 'how to' intro
to get the general detailed steps, and there were a couple of
steps that I wasn't sure exactly what to do. Also, there are
tips I could have used, for example the siphoning; the book
makes it sound simple but it was very frustrating, and there
are tools available to start the siphon that I hope will be
very useful.

The book is very inspiring and the recipes are diverse and
interesting, I expect to use it again.

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A few purists still think that the only good wine is a grape wine. Read the first page
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airlocked fermentation vessel, airlocked container, yeast starter culture, final time right, year after fermentation, airlocked vessel, beeswax residue, ous fermentation, add the pectic enzyme, wild wine recipes, ferment for two months, ferment for one month, more foam rises, empty honey jar, opening your first bottle, yeast nutrient, add the tannin, white inner rind, siphon the wine, fermentation bin, grape tannin, acid blend, clover wine, sack mead, let the mixture ferment
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