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

Cox, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580171052 ISBN 13: 9781580171052

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Cox is the author of 21 books on food, wine, and gardening, including Gardening with Biochar, From Vines to Wines, and Cellaring Wine. He was the managing editor of Organic Gardening for many years, and currently serves as a contributing editor to The Tasting Panel, SOMM Journal, Clever Root, and Horticulture magazines, and writes a monthly garden feature for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. He has been the host of the PBS television series Your Organic Garden and Grow It! on HGTV. Cox lives in Sonoma County in California.

Review:

“Cox has a lively prose style that keeps this guide for grape growers and home vintners from ever becoming dull or pompous. Whether you plan to grow or make your own wine or just want to understand what you’re seeing when you visit a winery of vineyard, this book will prove invaluable.”

― San Francisco Examiner

 

“Read a book or two on the basics of home winemaking ― Jeff Cox’s From Vines to Wines is a good one.”

― Wine Spectator

 

“This book takes the reader from grape to glass  . . . easy-to-use lists, tables and drawings will inspire confidence in readers who are interested in making their own wines.”

― Orlando Sentinel

 

“ ‘Complete’ aptly describes the tables, glossary, illustrations, and readable text. “

― Country Journal

 

“an intelligent handbook on how to make good wine. Without getting into the details of hard science, it teaches, informs and excites.”

― Beverage Business

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1580171052
• ISBN 13: 9781580171052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256