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

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

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

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

What Customers Say About From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine:

Some domains are discussed in detail (eg pruning), others are almost left out completely (eg disease control (either classic or bio(dynamic)). Vinification is ok, but very little on 'corrective chemistry'. But I did like the book and I do recommend it. But it will make you search for more.

For an enthusiast or aspiring home vintner, this guide is of great benefit. Regional proclivities, trellis architecture, timing of the harvest, yeast strains, and cellaring are only a few of the topics of which a novice would have little or no knowledge. Jeff approaches all of these, and many more, in a way that is straightforward and adequate, only occasionally leaning anecdotal to remind the reader that what works for him will not, necessarily, work for you. It's very readable and entirely suitable for someone who has minimal exposure - say, a tour through a small commercial vineyard and winery - to an otherwise mysterious process.

It was purchased to help me with growing my own grapes for winemaking. The information was very helpful

Actually read this from cover to cover, which is pretty unusual for me. Great info, especially the table of what grape varietals can be grown in which zone.

Highly recommended, it covers everything you need to know to get started growing your own wine grapes to turning your harvest into award winning custom crafted wines.