PLUMSTED — The two-day grand opening of Plumsted's first winery and grape vineyard, Laurita Winery, 35 Archertown Road, is scheduled for Sept. 20 from noon to 6 p.m. and Sept. 21 from noon to 5 p.m. There will be wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, live music, tractor hay wagon rides and valet parking.

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This red wine vinegar is made with Lambrusco, the sparkling wine that is a specialty of Emilia-Romagna. The vinegar is made especially for Leonardo Spadoni, a miller who supplies much of northeastern Emilia-Romagna's pizzerias and trattorias with flour. Spadoni had it made for him so that he could suggest a good wine vinegar to complement the salads often served alongside his pizzas and pastas. It is an excellent everyday vinegar for salads, which is what Spadoni had intended.

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Port and sharries, whites, reds, roses and melomels -- make your own wine without owning a vineyard!

If you can follow a simple recipe, you can create delectabletable wines in your own home. It's fun, it's easy-and the resultswill delightfully complement your favorite meals and provide unparalleledpleasure by the glass when friends come calling. You don't have tore-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 yourChinese cooking. Raspberry or apricot wine lend themselves to deliciousdesserts. 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
• aging, bottling, racking, blending, and experimenting
• 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
• an extensive mail-order resource section

Customer Review: Great for the Novice Winemaker!

As a novice winemaker, I was looking for something to help guide me in making wine from something other than the premade kit. There are lots of great ideas and seem to be easy to follow.

Shipping was quick. This was a great purchase!

Customer Review: Average level, fun for trying your own winemaking

I have to admit that I stood at the book store for a long time looking over a small selection of books for winemaking. If you are looking for a book that deals just with grape wines, put this back on the shelf. But for me I fell in love. I flip through the start and then check out the back index, references, and everything else in the appendix. It has the conversions (metric, and general volumes which makes it easy to know how many cups are in a pound) The index has by subject, recipe, and ingredients.
The recipes are fun which makes it all the more exciting to finally find out how your wine will taste after those 6 months. I started to read this book a couple days ago and it is already bookmarked by information and recipes I want to try.
The chapter with info on the hydrometer is so much less complex than other papers I have read.
You can't have just one winemaking book, that would be unwise. Add this one to your collection.

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Perdeberg Winery - the one with the zebra - continues to uphold its mission to create wines of excellence. Renowned and highly acclaimed for its Chenin Blanc wines, Perdeberg's 2008 release doesn't disappoint.

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Customer Review: Pretty but not very useful

This book is sort of all fluff; the pictures are pretty, but it's not really very informative. I'd skip it and buy a Michelin guide unless you want a picture book for your coffee table.

Customer Review: Burgundy & its Wines

The book has wonderful photography, with a nice history of the region. A few major vineyards are listed, but don't expect it to be a list of key Burgundian hot spots! More the asthetic and artistic history of the area and how wine got started and grew.

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Magnotta Winery has reported net sales of C$5.85 million for the second quarter ended July 31, 2008, an increase of 2.9%, compared to C$5.69 million for the same period in 2007.

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Academia Barilla Artisan Chianti Jelly is fully crafted by hand and offers the perfect complement to cheeses, desserts, sandwiches, ice cream and much more. The Chianti Jelly is all natural and does not contain any additives, preservatives or added sugars. This wonderful jelly is characterized by a tender, soft and velvety structure. Made with real Chianti wine from the Tuscan hillsides, this is no ordinary grape jelly!

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Opera star Jose Carreras will perform at Elephant Hill Estate and Winery in Te Awanga, Hawke's Bay on January 31.

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Gelatina Di Chianti is a gelatin characterized by a tender, soft and velvety structure. Without additives. Artisan production method. Chianti, an important meditation wine, confers to this product a delicate but intense aroma, without wine notes but rich in fragrance. in mouth it is delicate, non-alcoholic, fragraanced, soft and with a rounded texture. serve with Pecorino Toscano and other aged cheese made from sheep's milk. Excellent for desserts and ice cream.

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Customer Review: Brief Guide - but assumes too much

As an Australian with little knowledge of the American Wine Industry this guide is a terse introduction to some basic facts and figures. However, it tells me little about the respective qualities of the different states or areas. Also the lists of suggested wines and makers is short and restricted to a couple of states. Yes, this is a small format book, but it could have done a much better job. The views of the author suggest he is well-known and respected. If this is the case - maybe he is resting on his laurels, maybe he needs to rethink and restructure this guide, so that it is more useful to a wider audience.

Customer Review: Interesting but Not what I expected

This is a much smaller book which incorporates some of the material from Zraly's Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2008 Edition (Windows on the World Complete Wine Course) but is limited to American Wines only. The information on the most important American wine growing states (California, Washington. Oregon and New York) and grape varieties is often word-for word identical between the two books.

The unique feature of this book is the state-by-state description of wineries, growing regions, wine trails, and the grapes grown in all 50 states. For example Delaware has only 2 wineries (the least of any state) while California has more than 1600 wineries. Even Alaska has six wineries and Hawaii has four. Wyoming, which Zraly describes as having the lowest wine production of any state has three wineries. There are expanded though still short descriptions of the 5th through 10th place wine producing states (Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, and Michigan) that don't appear elsewhere. Zraly writes in an entertaining and easy to read style here as elsewhere and the illustrations are crisp and pleasant.

Individual wines are not reviewed or rated and only wines from California, Washington and Oregon are recommended in this book due to the limited availability of wines from other states. The list is the same here as in "Wine Course". In short this book was not what I expected since the only unique material is the state-by-state review of wineries and grapes. His hardcover "Wine Course" covers more much more information making it a better value and better suited for most readers interested in learning about wine. The limited scope and simple format make this an accessible "teaser" book for the complete wine novice however. It is also useful as a guide for hard core wine tourists of lesser known growing states and those interested in the wine industry in these states.

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