The Joy of Home Winemaking

by Terry A. Garey

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

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 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 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
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
Whether you prefer your wine dry of 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks, Wine, Brewing, Food and Drink, Cooking, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really excellent, easy to read, inviting book on getting started with home wine making. The author comes off as friendly and encouraging and is often quite funny - this is not some dry, technical instructional book. This gives a good, basic foundation of the subject, with lots of suggestions for how to further your interests once you are ready to move on to something more challenging. Lots of recipes, some of which are currently in the works (and untested as yet). Maybe after a few more batches of wine, or in a year or two, I'll get another winemaking book for comparison or further instruction, but for now I feel sufficiently equipped to get started!

[CCCCCC · Rating 5 out of 5]

A pleasure to read and incredibly useful in winemaking. I have made my first batch based entirely on this book's guidance, so far so good. The author is relaxed, brings enthusiasm to the hobby, and is very encouraging. In short, a must read for those interested in winemaking, fruit winemaking especially.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terry writes a fun, easy-to-follow guide to demystify home winemaking and reduce some of the stigma that surrounds the craft as not being "true winemaking" if not made exclusively from wine grapes. While I would have preferred the analysis to be a bit more scientific, this is a good primer for the lay person

[Kelley AC · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent recipes! Fun to read. It has Gooseberry wine, prickly pear wine, and onion wine. These are all wines my grandmother used to make. It really is so much fun to read and yes, I did read the glossary....hahaha!!

[Mic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book for $6 at a book store closing sale. It's a fast, easy read explaining the basics of home wine making. The pros are it explains it in approachable and affordable wine making is. The downside is I have to wait almost a year before I can learn from the mistakes I'll inevitably have made in my first batch of cranberry apple wine...

[Christopher Packard · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book for getting into making wine!

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting, easy read, lots of good ideas.

[Tovis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding book!

[Kayleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

All kinds of wonderful fruit wine recipes. Writting in a fun, friendly style.