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Anderson, Dorothy Anderson List Price : $22.00 Our Price: $19.79 Amazon Prime; other vendors new from $2.14 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback 304 pages (1st Edition, August 1989) Book Description: A solid reference work for making home wines If you’ve never before made wine but want to try it, or if you’ve been making it for years but simply want a solid recipe or reference work, Winemaking : Recipes, Equipment, and Techniques for Making Wine at Home is a good place to start. The Andersons have written a book anyone can use. The writing is not always straightforward and concise, but it is lay-oriented, and you won’t need a degree in chemistry to understand it. For the beginner, it is a good primer. For the advanced winemaker, it will be instantly understandable and useful. As another reviewer pointed out, this is a book to be used. The spiral binding allows you to open the book to the recipe you want and lay it on the counter without using weights to hold it open. While some of the recipes may need adjustments to the amounts of the ingredients listed, as a recipe developer I can assure you this is unavoidable. Fruits, berries, grapes, and grape concentrates vary in the amounts of sugar, acidity, tannin, and pectin they contain. Still, the Andersons’ recipes are good places to start. (Reviewed by Jack Keller) Order here from Amazon.com Bonus Selection: Techniques In Home Winemaking (Revised & Expanded) A Practical Guide to Making Chateau-Style Wines by Daniel Pambianchi Our Price: $28.44 Amazon Prime; Other vendors new from $13.27 Also available in paperback Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardback 512 pages April 2012) Book Description: A competent guide to making premium grape wines at home This is a very good book, geared toward achieving good wine from average grapes through proven methods of balancing aroma, body, clarity, color, taste, and style. In all, it succeeds in achieving these goals. It also contains a number of very valuable appendices. But the whole of the book is peppered with detailed and useful charts, tables and illustrative figures. I highly recommend this book. Read a review of this book Order here from Amazon.com Bonus Selection: Postmodern Winemaking: Rethinking the Modern Science of an Ancient Craft by Clark Smith List Price : $39.95 Our Price: $34.95 Amazon Prime; Other vendors new from $21.44 Availability: Usually ships within 2-3 days. Hardback 368 pages (1st Edition, November 2013) Book Description: Re-examining the science of modern winemaking and beyond If you understand the technical terms, or will bother to look them up, this is either an invaluable work or a complete waste of money for any winemaker. While it is most certainly aimed at the large scale (commercial) winemaker, even us amateurs can benefit in countless ways from reading (and hopefully digesting) this book. However, if your winemaking education is already optimized and your beliefs poured in concrete you will probably find the book of little value. For either case, the book is thought-provoking in most of the right places. It just depends on how open one is to the author’s thoughts and philosophical biases (he isn’t a fan of "natural" winemaking—nor am I). For me, Postmodern Winemaking was a good read, even though I had to read portions more than once to grasp the implications—some subtle and some blunt opinions. I particularly enjoyed the author’s injection of humor scattered throughout which made it fun to read. Clark Smith’s discussions of micro-oxygenation and reverse osmosis require investments that may be beyond the budget of most amateur winemakers, but they do allow one to appreciate them more fully. Also, his discussions of tannin and anthocyanin polymerization and the impact and evolution (or is it devolution?) of acids in wine are especially important in my opinion. To be succinct, the book may be a challenge to many, but is certainly worth reading and digesting if you make wine. Order here from Amazon.com SPECIAL RECIPE COLLECTIONS Blackberry Wines More than you ever wanted to know about blackberries, their varieties, and 10 recipes for declicious blackberry wines, including five new recipes never published before anywhere. Dandelion Wines The ultimate collection of 30 dandelion wine recipes, including Jack Keller’s very best! Plus, 12 additional dandelion-based wine recipes. Watermelon Wines Here are 10 recipes for delicate and sometimes exquisite wines, including five new recipes never published before anywhere. Watermelon wines can be difficult to make well, but when successful they elicit awe and genuine respect.... Jack Keller wins several Best of Show and Honorable Mention rosettes at various competitions. 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