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*Home Winemaking Step by Step

By Jon Iverson. This is the best book on home winemaking, bar none. Although the book is exclusively geared toward fermenting wine grapes, all winemakers will benefit from Iverson's detailed, concise, and accurate text. Whenever we have a question, we turn to Iverson. Includes chapters on malolactic fermentation, oak maturation, sparkling wines and concentrates. 222 pages.

#B215Home Winemaking Step by Step (Iverson) $16.99
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*Making Wild Wines & Meads

Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels there's no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and your own backyard. Instructions and recipes for apricot wine, marigold wine, lemon-thyme metheglins, rose hip melomel, and more. Softcover, 169 pages.

#B225Making Wild Wines & Meads $19.99
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*The Home Winemaker's Companion

An excellent primer for beginning winemakers. Instructions and tips for making kit wine and fresh grape wine, plus 115 recipes. 288 pages, softcover.

#B226The Home Winemaker's Companion $21.50
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*The Winemaker's Answer Book

Alison Crowe, Winemaker magazine's "Wine Wizard", supplies practical, easy-to-follow answers to many questions and problems — from choosing raw ingredients to fermentation.

#B222Winemaker's Answer Book $14.99
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*The Joy of Home Winemaking

by Terry Garey. The winemaking equivalent of Papazian's New Complete Joy of Homebrewing. An easy-to-follow introductory book that takes the aspiring winemaker from the first concentrate batches up to advanced formulations like "Spiced Banana Sherry" and "Watermelon Blues Wine." Starting from scratch, Garey shows how to make good wine every time from easily found ingredients and equipment. 274 pages.

#B213Joy of Home Winemaking Garey $11.99
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*First Steps in Winemaking

by C.J.J. Berry. Good how-to book. Covers everything. A bit more concise than Progressive Winemaking. 235 pages.

#B202First Steps In Winemaking C.J.J. Berry $10.99
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*Growing Wine Grapes

92 pages of helpful information from the American Wine Society.

#7735Growing Wine Grapes American Wine Society $11.99
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*Northern Winework: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Cold Climates

This book covers all aspects of cold climate viticulture. The authors, Bob Parke and Tom Plocher, draw upon the experience of winemakers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern Europe and even Inner Mongolia. If you've ever lamented the fact that grape growing is impossible in Northern climates, this book will provide the foundation for success. 178 black and white pages, plus 7 full color pages.

#B216Northern Winework $31.99
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*The Compleat Meadmaker

By Ken Schramm. This book is by far the most detailed and authoritative book on home meadmaking we have seen. Beginning with a history of mead and definitions of the major styles, this book covers procedures, ingredients and techniques in depth. Contains chapters on varietal honeys, melomel, pyment, metheglin, and braggot. Schramm includes a section of his own recipes for traditional and show meads. Softtcover, with b/w photos; 212 pages.

#B217The Compleat Meadmaker Ken Schramm $19.99
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*Cider: Making, Using and Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider

By Proulx & Nichols. New, revised edition. Best book on how to make, harden, distill, judge, drink and enjoy this historic beverage. 217 pages.

#B208Cider: Making, Using, ... Proulx & Nichols $14.99
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*Winemaker's Receipe Handbook

An exhaustive compendium of 1-gallon recipes for country wines made from just about anything you can think of (Concord grape, watermelon) and some things you might not have thought about using for wine (turnips, onion). 34 pages.

#8101Winemaker's Recipe Handbook $3.99
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