Grape Wine: a Comprehensive Guide to Wine Making

The process of making quality wine involves numerous challenges. This book provides technical and practical solutions to all matters relating to grape wine making and serves as a foundation to understanding wine making and vinification procedures. It is fully illustrated with user-friendly charts, diagrams, graphs, photos and glossary of terms to make the sophisticated techniques described easily understandable. It provides informative guide for the winemaker and connoisseur seeking a better and more basic understanding of what the science associated with wine making is about. The author, an expert in wine making, concentrates on the process of wine production, stressing the processing of grapes and the various processes and treatments, aging, final bottling, storage of finished wines, quality tests for wine, sensory evaluation and adjustments. Winemakers can assimilate these concepts from this book. Novices and experienced winemakers alike will find this clearly written and expertly crafted book an indispensable source of practical instruction and information. Readers can also use it as a reference book by consulting any chapter.