Joy of Home Wine Making Paperback - 1996

From the rear cover

If you can follow a simple recipe, you can create delectable table wines in your own home. It's fun, it's easy - and the results will delightfully complement your favorite meals and provide unparalleled pleasure by the glass when friends come calling. You don't have to re-create Bordeaux in your basement to be a successful home vintner - you can make raisin wine and drink it like sherry, or use it to accent your Chinese cooking. Raspberry or apricot wine lend themselves to delicious desserts. And if you are interested in more exotic concoctions, rhubarb champagne is the ultimate treat. The Joy of Home Winemaking is your comprehensive guide to the most up-to-date techniques and equipment; readily available and affordable ingredients and materials; and aging, bottling, racking, blending, and experimenting. The Joy of Home Winemaking also provides dozens of original recipes for great-tasting fruit wines, spice wines, herb wines, sparkling wines, sherries, liqueurs... even homemade soda pop; a sparkling brief history of winemaking; helpful illustrations and glossary; and an extensive mail-order resource section. Whether you prefer your wine dry or slightly sweet, The Joy of Home Winemaking has all the information you need to go from casual connoisseur to expert home vintner in no time.