Winemaking: From Grape Growing to Marketplace [Hardcover]

Richard Vine (Author), Richard P Vine (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0834219514 | ISBN-13: 978-0834219519 | Publication Date: March 29, 2004 | Edition: 1

Winemaking is an excellent resource for anyone making wine or seriously considering it. Beginning with the history of vines and wines, the book covers the growing of grapes, the process of making wine, specific types of wine, issues in marketing, and practical guidance on getting started, constructing a winery, and compliance with the law. Several appendices provide equipment sources, analytical procedures, scientific data, and a glossary. An accessible quick reference on enology, the new edition will include new information on marketing wines and on the use of computers in viticulture and winemaking.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book remains highly recommended as a foundation text for anyone seriously considering opening a winery."
- Wine East

"This is a technical text on winemaking that every winemaker from beginner to advanced should have."
- Dan L. Archibald, Fruit Winemaking Quarterly, January 2003

 

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 460 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834219514
• ISBN-13: 978-0834219519
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,852,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on all aspects of winery business, April 28, 1999

By 

Lee Foster Fuqua ([e-mail]) (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winemaking: From Grape Growing to Marketplace (Chapman & Hall Enology Library) (Hardcover)

This book touches on all parts of the winemaking business from vineyard costs to winery costs and designs to marketing your wines. It has a good section on analytical testing procedures and 50 pages of charts, tables and conversions that come in handy.

The section on vineyard costs details year by year expenses from start-up through year 7. I also found the feasibility and finance section very helpful in starting up my own winery. The section on government regulations was very helpful in warning any prospective winery owners of what the ATF and state regulators expect. There are plenty of examples of good record keeping that various governments expect you to keep on hand at all times.

Of course this book also has 117 pages of good winemaking details along with good sections on microbiology, winery equipment, barrels and label designs. If this book has any obvious fault it would be that it does not go deep enough into some of these subjects, but then it would be thousands of pages long instead of the 440 pages it is.

An all around great book on winemaking and the rest of the business that goes with a winery and it's operation. This book has lots of good business information in it that I have not seen in any other winemaking book. I recommend it for anyone who not only wants to make great wine but also is serious about starting his own commercial winery.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why is it out of print?, April 25, 2000

By 

Steven Charnick "a solo cello outside a chorus" (Ocean, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winemaking: From Grape Growing to Marketplace (Chapman & Hall Enology Library) (Hardcover)

As a wine 'amateur' (French meaning - no French person would ever say they were a 'connossieur' of wine, as one can never know it), this book was great in teaching more of the nuts and bolts of the wine biz. Grab this online somewhere - hopefully Amazon.com's out-of-print service - but grab it - it is very interesting.

12 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and not worth the money, March 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Winemaking: From Grape Growing to Marketplace (Chapman & Hall Enology Library) (Hardcover)

Here is good evidence why Indiana is not a mecca of fine wines. Mr. Vine needs to take a few classes at U.C. Davis or read any of Amerine's books. The faults are too many but he did do a good job by inserting Government Regs and a lot of tables that would be hard for him to screw-up.