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Cox has a lively prose style that keeps this guide for grape growers and home vintners from ever becoming dull or pompous. Whether you plan to grow or make your own wine or just want to understand what you re seeing when you visit a winery of vineyard, this book will prove invaluable. San Francisco Examiner Read a book or two on the basics of home winemaking Jeff Cox s From Vines to Wines is a good one. Wine Spectator This book takes the reader from grape to glass . . . easy-to-use lists, tables and drawings will inspire confidence in readers who are interested in making their own wines. Orlando Sentinel Complete aptly describes the tables, glossary, illustrations, and readable text. Country Journal an intelligent handbook on how to make good wine. Without getting into the details of hard science, it teaches, informs and excites. Beverage Business
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Create you own backyard winery! From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine. Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to: -- Choose and prepare a vineyard site -- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems -- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate -- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine -- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste
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4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the "Bibles" for backyard grape growers.,
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This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)
Cox's "From Vines to Wines" is probably one of the best introductions to backyard grape growing and basement winemaking available today. From selecting vine stock to harvesting the crop, the first half of the book covers all the bases for grape growing. The second half is dedicated to winemaking, from first establishing what type of wine you want to create to labeling the bottles. This book is definitely oriented towards the hobbyist - readers with designs for a large vineyard (1+ acres) will want to start with this book but move on to more detailed texts. Personally, I found the section on site selection and soil analysis a little thin - fine if you're limited to the space on hand (your backyard), but lacking if you want to buy acreage dedicated to a vineyard. No data was provided on small scale commercial operations or basic vineyard economics. Cox's winemaking chapters are probably the best I've seen. He goes through the whole process and highlights potential trouble areas. Overall, a very good book for the hobbyist.
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Great Intro to Grape growing and Wine Making,
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This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)
After years of making our own wine and finally living in a world class grape growing region we wanted to try out hand at growing grapes. This book provided excellent information for the entire process. We've followed the advice in this book and have had good result with our grapes for two years.
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A solid, practical, wonderfully accessible resource,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine (Paperback)
Expertly written by Jeff Cox (an accomplished gardener and senior editor of "Global Vintage Quarterly"), and now in an updated and expanded fourth edition, From Vines To Wines: The Complete Guide To Growing Grapes And Making Your Own Wine is a complete, cover-to-cover, "user friendly" resource for home winemakers. Featuring everything from selecting ideal vines, to growing and harvesting grapes, the wine-making process from fermentation to labeling and cellaring, From Vines To Wines is a solid, practical, wonderfully accessible resource with diagrams, down-to-earth language, offering everything the reader needs to know to grow and make their own vintages.
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