From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine

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Create you own backyard winery!

From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine.

Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to:

-- Choose and prepare a vineyard site

-- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems

-- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate

-- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine

-- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste

Customer Reviews ::

Not just for beginners - George Laird - Napa, CA USA
This is a great book on the entire life cycle of making wine. It goes well beyond "the skin makes red wine red" into a good detail about each step of the process to make wine. We know a good deal about wine but found this book to be extremely informative and honestly I go back to it often as more things "click" in my head when being around wine. I'd rate this book really good for anyone from a novice to pretty experienced in wine. If you are an actual winemaker or grapegrower, you theoretically aren't the target market although I'd guess a few of them could use some good ole basics every once in a while too!