Anyone Suggest a Good Homemade Wine Book?

[Suo Gan]

Was reading the Honey Meade post, and got me to thinking. I have never made homemade wine, just sugar alchohol some time back. Can anyone suggest a good starting point for this venture? I have access to grapes, prunes, peaches, nectarines, and blackberries.

Would 1 gallon cheap wine bottles be worth collecting for this?

[leadeye]

Jack Keller's website will tell you just about everything you want to know, I got started there. I use fruit when it is available and frozen juice concentrate from the store when it is not. Save your glass gallon jugs.

[David Caldwell]

This is a great hobby. Right up there with casting and shooting.

Home Winemaking Step by Step - Iverson
Grapes into Wine - Wagner
From Vines to Wine - Cox

The one gallon jugs are good for bottling your finished product.. It's much easier and more efficient to do your primary fermentation in a five gallon plastic bucket and the secondary fermentation in a five gallon glass bottle.

Forget the nectarines and prunes. Eat the peaches fresh and chase 'em with a shot of vodka - more satisfying and tasty than fermenting them. Blackberries make decent sweet wine.

Your real magic will come from the vinifera grapes for which your state is so famous. 90% of your success will come from your starting material.

The aforementioned books are available in paperback for cheaps, but you'll find them to be priceless.

dac

[Four Fingers of Death]

. Blackberries make decent sweet wine: They also make awesome jam and pies, especially wit a sugar covered hard pie crust!!! Yummo. Febuary is prime blackberry time around my way, can't wait.

[Suo Gan]

Thanks for the suggestions gents, I am going to Amazon right now.

[David Caldwell]

Suo Gan,

Did you get your wine books? You like?