The Backyard Vintner: An Enthusiast's Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Wine at Home

By Jim Law

Book Overview

Welcome to your own personal wine country, where you will discover recipes and techniques for making and evaluating fine red, white, and rose wines from one of America's finest winemakers. This accessible guide teaches new and advanced enthusiasts how to select, grow, and harvest grapes that are suited to the different regions around the country, and then, how to make authentic artisan wine from them. If you've ever wanted to make homemade wine but never thought you had the space or ability to make it, you will love this book. The Backyard Vintner is a handy guide to at-home winemaking that teaches the readers the tips and tricks of the trade. With inspiring full-color photographs and step-by-step illustrations, this hardcover reference guide also provides recipes and techniques for making and evaluating fine red, white, and rose wines. The Backyard Vintner teaches you how to start and maintain a vineyard, and provides vital information on topics like planting, trellising, and pruning grapes. With chapters on planting and caring for your grapes, picking, fermenting, fine-tuning the elevage, and bottling your wine, this is a comprehensive guide for do-it-yourself enthusiasts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785828265
• ISBN13: 9780785828266
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Book Sales, Incorporated
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A helpful guide

An easy to understand guidebook with sufficient explanation, good examples and colorful pictures. Giving practical advises instead of theoritical explanations & formulas.

Growing grapes made easy

This book provides usefull and pertinent information all the way from the grape planting process to the wine making process. He walks you through every step carefully, but does not suggest a robotic structure for making wine, he leaves open oppertunies to show your own creativity.

Touches on the important points

I've purchased several "how to" wine books and this one is good, but not great. I would not rely on it as my only reference. Rather, it makes a very good companion for "From Vines to Wines."

great book

Very comprehensive and thorough. Good reading and runs one through the basics and beyond. All good.