Books - Wine and Grapes

Few pleasures are more gratifying than pouring a glass of fine wine, admiring its clarity and color, savoring its bouquet, raising it to your lips, and knowing that you made it yourself. With this guide to home winemaking, such pleasures can be yours with little fuss and lots of fun. The Home Winemaker's Companion will guide you as you progress from making your very first batch of kit wine to mastering advanced techniques for making wine from fresh grapes. Included are Gene Spaziani's recipes for 115 wines, including port and champagne. Contents include: Getting Started, Essential How-to's, Wine from Kits, Wine from Concentrates, Wine from juices, White Wine from Grapes, Red Wine from Grapes, Wine from Fruit, Sparkling and Fortified Wines.

If you can follow a simple recipe, you can create delectable table wines in your own home. It's fun, it's easy and the results will delightfully complement your favorite meals and provide unparalleled pleasure by the glass when friends come calling. You don't have to recreate Bordeaux in your basement to be a successful home vintner you can make raisin wine and drink it like sherry, or use it to accent your Chinese cooking. Raspberry or apricot wine lend themselves to delicious desserts. And if you are interested in more exotic concoctions, rhubarb champagne is the ultimate treat. The Joy of Home Winemaking is your comprehensive guide to the most up to date techniques and equipment, readily available and affordable wine making ingredients and wine making materials.

This is the same book that is included with our Vintners Best Equipment Kits. Author Robert Cluetts nine step process takes the mystery out of winemaking. Includes a universal wine formula that allows you to create your own unique recipes. 31 pages.

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 Metheglin, Strawberry Wine, Rose Hip Melomel and others. A fun introduction to home winemaking for the first-timer and a wild departure from the ordinary for more experienced winemakers. (Vargas and Gulling) 169 pages

Marys Recipes - Wine Making Recipes - 116 pages. A selection of recipes for the beginner to the advanced winemaker. Complete list of additives, hydrometer usage, basic wine making steps and of course over 100 recipes. (Uthemann) 116 pages. Great recipe book written by great people!

Takes the winemaker through the entire process from growing grapes to making wine. 253 pages (Cox)

A great little book with 101 one gallon fruit wine recipes. 34 pages. (Massaccesi)

Recipes, equipment and techniques for making wine. Great reference guide. Fantastic gift! 284 pages (Anderson)

The Winemaker Answer Book - WineMaker Magazine - Alison Crowe. Direct from the pages of WineMaker magazine, this comprehensive collection of questions and answers from their popular Wine Wizard column offers advice for both the novice and the advanced home winemaker, and everyone in between! Covering nearly every situation a winemaker could come up with, this 384 page guide is the perfect reference for any home vintner. Fully indexed and organized by themes, find the answers to your questions and fixes to your problems fast. (Crowe)

From planting to harvesting, this book tells you how to grow grapes. 32 pages (Garden Way)

He said Beer She said Wine - Old and Calagione - 256 pages. He said BEER (Sam Calagione) - She said WINE (Marnie Old). Impassioned food pairings to debate and enjoy, from burgers to Brie and beyond. A sommelier and a brewer team up to provide food-pairing insights and to recommend more than 100 specific wines and beers. Contains all you need to host your own Beer vs. Wine dinner party. Delicious recipes, planning tips, and rival beer and wine picks to debate and savor. Features primers on wine and beer to get you up to speed and helps you to identify your own pairing preferences with confidence. Sam Calagione is a brewer and the founder and owner of Dogfish Head, one of America's fastest-growing breweries. Over a million six-packs of Dogfish Head's off-centered ales are sold throughout the country each year. His other books include Brewing Up a Business and Extreme Brewing. Marnie Old is an award-winning sommelier and one of the country's leading wine educators. She is Director of Wine Studies at the world-famous French Culinary Institute in Manhattan, and served as the founding education chair of the American Sommelier Association. 256 pages

Kit Winemaking: The Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Making Wine from Wine Making Kits and Concentrate. Daniel Pambianchi. Kit Winemaking provides beginners with day-by-day instructions on making superlative kit wines, often undistinguishable from homemade ones crafted from grapes, or even commercial wines. The trend is clear, there is an increasing number of new wine hobbyists with one out of five just starting out in home winemaking and two-thirds using kits/concentrate. With the vast improvement in kit quality, hence wine quality, and with a plethora of wine kits and styles now available, home winemaking has become a very serious hobby. This guide also describes the most common wine faults, how to resolve them, and how to avoid them in the first place. All this is supplemented with a handy glossary to the entire winemaking lingo to turn any novice into an expert. This is the ideal book for beginner winemaking wanting to make wine from kits. Published by Vehicule Press, 2009.