From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes & Making Your Own Wine [Paperback]

Jeff Cox (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Garden Way Pub Co; Rep edition (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882665286
• ISBN-13: 978-0882665283
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #713,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Expert Advice > Jeff Cox

More About the Author

For the first eight years of my life, I was a suburban kid in Manhasset, New York. Then we moved to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania where I learned to hunt, fish, eat wild foods, and swim in pristine waters of spring-fed creeks. Then I lived in Manhattan. So I'm at home just about anywhere. My experiences in the country, though, were the most important, leading me through newspaper and magazine work to Organic Gardening magazine, where I developed a love of gardening and landscaping. Now I'm a wine writer for many magazines and the restaurant reviewer for Northern California's newspaper of record, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, here in the heart of the Wine Country. I'm also a contributing editor to The Wine News and Horticulture magazines. I've written 18 books on food, wine, and gardening,--many of which are available on Amazon.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only book of its kind, it helps to have a chem degree!, September 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes & Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)

This is an excellent book, I recommend it to anyone who wishes to prepare wine from scratch. The book is written for the reader with knowledge of basic science concepts, especially a chemistry degree.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whether planting one vine or one thousand, read this book!, August 23, 1998

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Jack B. Keller, Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes & Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)

Jeff Cox does what so few writers can do; he makes viticulture so interesting that you won't want to put this book down. That's saying a lot!

The whole book is a masterful handbook for the home or small commercial grower. From selecting the vines and a growing site to planting, growing, pruning, and harvesting to making wine, Cox literally packs the pages with useful information, tables and how-to illustrations. Even his appendix on grape pests and their control is written as a trouble-shooting guide based on symptoms rather than cause. This is both refreshing and useful.

If you can only buy one book on the subject, this is the one to buy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The complete guide to growing grapes & making your own wine., June 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes & Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)

With enthusiasm and clarity, the author leads his readers, from the amateur to the accomplished winemaker, in his or her quest for flawless grapes and extraordinary wine. The process is not as daunting as it may seem. What matters most is finding the grape that gives wine you like and which thrives and ripens (consistently) in your climate. The author goes on to describe vineyard siting, soil preparation, culture, pruning, trellising, and pest control.

The second half of the book thoroughly describes the wine-making process: from crushing the grapes and pressing, to primary and secondary fermentations, racking, bottling, corking, cellaring, and evaluating the finished product.

This book will appeal to the person with a serious desire to grow grapes and make wine, the aspiring wine-making entrepreneur, the home gardener interested in the culture of grapes, the wine connoisseur, and the casual hobbyist. No matter what level of invlovement you want to have in the wine-making process, "From Vines to Wines" will satisfy your needs and curiosity.