The first true handbook for professional winemakers written by a professor of chemistry who is also a practicing winemaker. Everything you need to know from grape harvest to the bottling laboratory with practical charts and tables. Includes pre-harvest operations, sulfurdioxide, skin contact, must corrections, yeast, cellar operations, fining, oak and aging, quality control, analysis of must and wine and specifics for setting up your wine lab. Ideal for students and cellar rats.
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Yair Margalit, Ph.D., author of the best-selling Winery Technology and Operations and Concepts in Wine Chemistry, is a physical chemist with many years of research and teaching experience. He operates a small family vineyard and winery and teaches winemaking and wine chemistry at the Israel Institute of Technology - the 'Technicon.' He also visits and consults with wineries worldwide.
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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
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Fine Tuning For The Move-up Winemaker,
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This review is from: Winery Technology and Operations:A Handbook for Small Wineries (Paperback)
I'm a home winemaker in the heart of the best viticulture region in North America being groomed to become a commercial winemaker in the next year or so. I have read MANY how-to books on the subject, taken courses and toured many operating wineries. I rate Jeff Cox's "From Vines to Wines" as the best entry level book around, and I rate Yair Margalit's Handbook as positively the best I've seen for winemakers with some experience behind them. Yair is a PhD, so stand by for some heavy chemistry, but it does not get in the way of understanding this marvelous little book. This is truly HANDS ON stuff with nothing left out! I found Yair's straight-forward style just the ticket for untangling complex winemaking concepts and clearing up my understanding of some pretty difficult wine technology. He definitely added to my expertise and affected the way I will approach winemaking in the future. If you're interested in fine tuning your winemaking technique, get this book!
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Wine Technology & Operations Review from a UC Davis grad,
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This review is from: Winery Technology and Operations:A Handbook for Small Wineries (Paperback)
Dr. Margalit's book is an easy to read primer useful for any wine student studying the technology and chemistry behind winemaking. His prose style intersperses the scientific elements with winemaking techniques from the grape ripening stages through the final production and quality checks of the produced wine. He defines most of the key acronyms and explains in simple to read precise language key winemaking concepts, using many graphs and well-placed illustrations. Topics are indexed well, and a series of appendices at the end of the book allow the reader to continue reading forward the topics at a high level, while being able to refer to added technical detail available when needed. The sections on wine acids are very concise and to the point. There is a lot of real world information in here, distilled from many more technical texts not as easy to read as this one. This is a very solid wine making primer. Kim Hartleroad - graduate of the UC Davis Winemaking for Distance Learners program
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical Information,
By M. Cabot (VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Winery Technology and Operations:A Handbook for Small Wineries (Paperback)
Overall, Margalit's book is excellent both as a reference guide for student winemakers and small commercial winemakers. It includes helpful tables converting brix to potential alcohol but the explanation of sugar correction is a bit more confusing than it needs to be. The section on SO2 is good and gives comprehensive chemical background. Explanations of procedures for crush and press are easily understood and accurate. Good information of clarification and fining. As a cellar-rat and apprentice winemaker in a small commercial winery I have found this book very helpful.
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The main object in following up the developments and changes of the grapes during the ripening period is to confirm the maturity state of the grapes, with respect to the wine we are going to produce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
botrytis cinerea, fining particles, copper casse, cold stabilization, wine processing, wine spoilage, total titratable acidity, dealcoholized wine, lees particles, first racking, volatile acidity, yeast lees, wine surface, varietal aroma, corking machine, wine sample, stuck fermentation, protein instability, residual sugar, magnetic rod, late harvest wines, total acidity, fining agents, dry extract, bottling line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The main object in following up the developments and changes of the grapes during the ripening period is to confirm the maturity state of the grapes, with respect to the wine we are going to produce. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
botrytis cinerea, fining particles, copper casse, cold stabilization, wine processing, wine spoilage, total titratable acidity, dealcoholized wine, lees particles, first racking, volatile acidity, yeast lees, wine surface, varietal aroma, corking machine, wine sample, stuck fermentation, protein instability, residual sugar, magnetic rod, late harvest wines, total acidity, fining agents, dry extract, bottling line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, White Riesling, Pinot Noir, Art of Making Wine, Cellar Operations Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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