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Home Winemaking For Dummies®......Page 1
About the Author......Page 9
Author’s Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents at a Glance......Page 11
Table of Contents......Page 13
Introduction......Page 23
Conventions Used in This Book......Page 24
Foolish Assumptions......Page 25
How This Book Is Organized......Page 26
Icons Used in This Book......Page 27
Where to Go from Here......Page 28
Part I: Motivations, Materials, and Methods......Page 29
Chapter 1: Making Great Wine at Home......Page 31
Choosing to Make Cheap Wine or Really Good Wine......Page 32
Getting into the Home Winemaking Mindset......Page 34
Going from Vine to Glass......Page 37
Grape Expectations......Page 43
Picking First-Time Winners......Page 49
Looking Beyond the Usual Suspects......Page 52
No Grapes? No Problem......Page 55
Chapter 3: Provisioning Your Home Winery......Page 59
Weighing the Heavy Equipment......Page 60
Scanning the Smaller Stuff......Page 68
Equipping Your Home Wine Lab......Page 73
Shopping for Perishable Supplies......Page 77
Designing Your Winery......Page 80
Controlling Temperature......Page 83
Identifying Oxygen as Friend or Foe......Page 87
Sanitation, Sanitation, Sanitation......Page 90
Part II: Phases and Stages......Page 93
What to Do Before You Do Anything......Page 95
Crushing, Delicately and Otherwise......Page 101
Pressing Whites......Page 104
Adding, Subtracting, and Tweaking......Page 108
Winemaking’s Secret: Yeast, the Fortunate Fungus......Page 113
Monitoring and Massaging Fermentation......Page 119
Pressing Reds......Page 127
Troubleshooting a Stuck Fermentation: When the Fermentation Won’t Ferment......Page 129
Cleaning Up Your Wine......Page 133
Doing the Post-Fermentation Checkup......Page 136
Exploring the Mysteries of the Malolactic......Page 139
Evaluating Wine at the Yucky Stage......Page 142
Exposing to Oxygen, No; Topping Up, Yes......Page 144
Glass, Germs, and Steel: Carboy Aging......Page 147
Barreling Down Your Wine......Page 148
Tasting, Topping, and Tweaking......Page 154
The Joys of Blending......Page 158
Sniffing Out and Snuffing Out Problems......Page 162
Fining: Cleaning Up Wine’s Act......Page 167
Filtration: Making Your Wine Shine......Page 170
Setting Up the Home Bottling Line......Page 172
Closing the Deal......Page 179
Storing and Tasting......Page 181
Fixing Bottled Wine......Page 184
Serving and Pouring with Pride......Page 187
Cycling from Harvest to Harvest......Page 188
Part III: Deeper Into Reds......Page 191
Exploring the Deceptive Ease of Reds......Page 193
Playing with the Rules — Options, Alternatives, and Experiments......Page 197
Addressing Aging......Page 204
Making Decisions, Decisions......Page 205
From Bordeaux to London to the World......Page 207
King Cabernet......Page 209
Malleable Merlot......Page 212
Marvelous Minor Players......Page 215
Blending Strategies......Page 219
Making Yeast and Style Choices......Page 220
Sipping Syrah around the World......Page 221
Living Large with Petite Sirah......Page 225
Introducing Marvelous Minor Players......Page 228
Blending? Of Course......Page 232
Choosing Yeasts and Other Options......Page 233
Treating Pinot Noir with Kid Gloves......Page 235
Zinfandel: Wine on the Wild Side......Page 240
Taming Temperamental Tempranillo......Page 244
Savoring Sharp-Edged Sangiovese......Page 247
Pairing Yeasts and Making Choices......Page 249
A Mouth-Filling Miscellany of Reds......Page 251
Searching Out Homegrown Hybrids......Page 254
Turning to Teinturier Grapes: Red All Over......Page 258
Part IV: Deeper Into Whites......Page 259
Whites: Harder Than Reds?......Page 261
Options, Alternatives, and Experiments......Page 263
The White Wine Balancing Act......Page 270
Making those Decisions, Decisions......Page 272
Chardonnay: The Perils of Popularity......Page 275
Sauvignon Blanc — Edgy and Otherwise......Page 283
White Wine Wonderland......Page 286
Hybrids that Hold Their Own......Page 291
Choosing Yeasts and Styles......Page 292
Stylistic Preliminaries......Page 293
Noseworthy Nobility......Page 297
Semi-Aromatic Whites......Page 307
Choosing Yeast and Style Options......Page 309
Part V: Beyond Red and White......Page 311
Why Make Pink Wine?......Page 313
Surveying Pink Wine Methods......Page 314
Stepping through a Saignée......Page 317
Making Exceptions for Exceptional Wines......Page 321
Dealing with Residual Sugar......Page 322
Waiting for Late-Harvest Wines......Page 324
Fortifying Your Wine......Page 329
Putting Bubbles in Your Bottles......Page 335
Part VI: The Part of Tens......Page 337
The Old “Malolactic in the Bottle” Trick......Page 339
Sanitation “Good Enough for Home Winemaking”......Page 340
Not Labeling Your Wine Jugs......Page 341
Underestimating Your Wine(making)......Page 342
Make More Wine......Page 343
Make More Whites......Page 344
Use Oak Alternatives......Page 345
Corners Not to Cut......Page 346
Only Wine Requires Training Classes......Page 347
Sparklers, not Suds, Launch Ships......Page 348
Nobody Makes Fraudulent Beer......Page 349
Mixing Patience with Fun......Page 350
Appendixes......Page 351
Appendix A: Glossary......Page 353
Land to Grapes to Bottles......Page 355
Print Publications......Page 357
Online Information......Page 358
Equipment and Supplies......Page 359
People......Page 360
Sanitizing with SO2......Page 361
Adding SO2 Based on pH......Page 362
Index......Page 369