Customer Review: Wine process book review

I found the Complete Handbook of Winemaking by the American Wine Society to be very readable and found that it covered the whole wine making process very well.
Not only did it outline the wine making, but addressed almost any problem situation that might arise and offered solutions to most of them. All-In-All it was worth the time and expense.

Customer Review: 5 For The Content, -1 For The Title

Beginners and first time kit winemakers: Do NOT buy this book. Make your wine from concentrate, ferment it, taste it, age it, etc, etc. Repeat. THEN buy this book, and learn why you did what you did to get what you did. The articles presented in this book are fairly comprehensive in the sense that they cover the majority of the wines explored by home vintners. Still, sparkling, fruit, port, sherry, blends, and even vinegar are covered, each with their own article. BUT, in the modern sense of "complete" it fails miserably (apparently so does the the universe as a whole, but that's another review...) Complete today means "tell me what to do". This is complete in the sense that all the groundwork has been laid, you have been educated enough to understand the finer nuances of winemaking, and you can now complete your wine with these facts in mind. Process is discussed at length, but it's always one specific step, ususally out of order with it's neighboring processes. Alright, in a nutshell: Have you made wine that tastes good before? Do you want to know how to make it taste better? Buy this book, and ignore the title.

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