num_pages: 192
description: With more than 100000 copies in print The Art of Making Wine is by now the definitive step-by-step guide for the serious amateur or beginning winemaker. Experienced vintners Anderson and Hull provide more than fifty recipes for making any kind of fruit. For the adventurous winemaker they give guidelines for endless experimentation. Table reds whites and roses sparkling wines sherries and Madeiras can be made from grapes; while apples pears currants blackberries apricots plums and figseven bananas and passion fruitmake delicious fruity wines. You can even experiment with dandelions rose hips honey or herbs. The authors provide details Starting your home winery without spending a centusing easy-to-find household items; Choosing and buying fruit or using specially marketed concentrates or wine bases; Making a yeast starter; dos and donts of sugar acid and temperature control; measuring alcohol content; Equipment for the more sophisticated winemaker and all you need to know about bottles barrels corks and racks; Common problemsfrom musty-smelling wine to exploding bottlesand how to solve them. Whether you are a traditionalist looking for new ideas or a beginner who has suddenly acquired a lot of fruit and needs to use it fast you are certain to find inspiration here.
language: English
title: The Art of Making Wine
publisher: Plume