First Time Making Wine

This is the ideal instructional text for first-time winemakers. Use it as your detailed guide this year to make high end red wine at home. Based on years of in-house research, hands-on winemaking and customer feedback, this booklet outlines our Best Practices and gives you the best shot at making great wine right in your home. Laid out in a direct and step-by-step fashion, this handy manual will be sure to stay by your side in your home winery for years to come. This is the same booklet that is available as a free .PDF download from the MoreManuals! page of our website, in a nice spiral-bound package with heavy-duty pages made from a smudge-resistant paper. Testimonial "I have been making red wine using the MoreManual Guide to Red Winemaking for three years. I originally downloaded a copy off of the website. Recently I bought the bound version because, of all the winemaking reference materials I have, including reference materials form a winemaking class and several books for home winemakers, the MoreManual is the only reference I bring with me to my home winery. When I need to make a decision, I consult that first. I appreciate the degree of thoroughness and detail in such a practical, hands on manual. If I can make good red wine using this manual, anybody can! It is far more useful to me than any of my home winemaking texts." Jim Suisun Valley, California, USA

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This is the ideal instructional text for first-time winemakers. Use it as your detailed guide this year to make high end white wine at home. Based on years of in-house research, hands-on winemaking and customer feedback, this booklet outlines our Best Practices and gives you the best shot at making great wine right in your home. Laid out in a direct and step-by-step fashion, this handy manual will be sure to stay by your side in your home winery for years to come. This is the same booklet that is available as a free .PDF download from the MoreManuals! page of our website, in a nice spiral-bound package with heavy-duty pages made from a smudge-resistant paper. Featuring In-Depth Information On: Complete Must Preparation How To Work With Lees ("sur-lie ageing") SO2 Management Fining and Filtration (Bottle Prep)

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Do you have specific wine making questions you need answered? Would you like to see several hundred of the most frequently asked questions submitted to WineMaker Magazine over the past few years? If you answered yes to either of the above questions you will love this new book from Alison Crowe, the Columnist for WineMaker's monthly FAQ section. We think it is a must have for the new winemaker's library and a fun short read book for airline trips, swinging in a hammock in Belize, reading in the John, or even while you make a batch of wine.

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This is a how-to book for aspiring and serious hobbyists wanting to take their winemaking to a whole new level. It describes the process of making flawless wine, consistently, from crush to bottle using modern techniques and the latest products. Making wine is not only about fermenting juice into wine; this book details the many other processes involved in making outstanding wine, wines that will win medals at competitions. These include how to analyze and control quality parameters, such as total acidity, pH, sulfur dioxide, how to stabilize wine so that it ages gracefully without developing flaws, and how – and why – to filter. And should something go wrong, a chapter is dedicated to help identify root causes of the most common problems, how to fix faults without compromising quality, and how to avoid them in the first place. The book contains many illustrations to highlight key processes and use of equipment, and many examples to help calculate, for example, sugar and acidity adjustments to make balanced wines. A Note from the Author: “Modern Home Winemaking” presents updated techniques bridging my experience and theory, introduces new products and equipment, and discusses wine science in much more details to help winemakers make more informed decisions in their winemaking. There is also a detailed chapter describing the most popular vinifera, Native American and hybrid grape varieties, and includes winemaking tips and recommended yeast strains for each variety. And there are many examples illustrating the many calculations in winemaking, such as when chaptalizing, or when doing acid or sulfur dioxide adjustments. The focus of this book is in making the best white, rosé and red wine.

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