From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine by Jeff Cox Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine
Book Review: Easy Read
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a well compiled, easy to read treatise on the subjects of viticulture and eneology. Focused on the layperson, it is very easy reading whilst glossing over none of the facts.The book covers growing grapes suitable for wine, focused specifically on the North American region. It doesn't labor over the different types of grapes and their most suitable areas but it does give some information. It covers the history on wine making grapes and some of their historical regions. Moreover, it gives details on trellising and pruning techniques.
Further, the book describes the process of winemaking. The authors easy going an informative style provides for a pleasant read.
The author provides the reader with incite into his own experiences and even suggests alternatives to the common approach.
I could recommend this book, not only to a perspective grape grower or wine maker, but to those that would like to learn more about wine, its history and how to taste it (all of which are between these covers).
Book Review: Best book i found for the beginner like me!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good book and well written..Has an answer to all questions i was wanting to ask. Bought several books and this was only one that gave me straightforward advice that i could really use.Book Review: From Vines to Wines
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is the one I keep coming back to for answeres to the questions I have about vinyard care and wine making. It covers both the east as well as the western U.S. I only wish it went deeper into hybrid grapes than it does. (although it does cover them).Book Review: And here I thought I was crazy for considering making wine
Summary: 5 Stars
When I bought this book, I have to say that I never really had any intention of making wine. While I truly enjoy visiting regional wineries and have quite a full wine rack, I would have thought that it would be just too hard to do. I got this book just to have a better appreciation of the process, but now I think I might try this...some day.You can't beat the price, very reasonable for what you get. It is very detailed and thorough, but not so techincial that it is confusing or overwhelming. Also, I was pleased to see that the author took into account that there are other places to grow wine other than California. I live in Virginia and there are some great local wineries, and the same can be said of New York's Finger Lakes where I went to college.
The book covers location, varieties, what varieties grow where, process, and problems. Very comprehensive overall.
Book Review: Excellent survey of all aspects of winemaking
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent introduction to the topics of growing grapes or winemaker hobbyist. Cox does an admirable job of providing enough information and tips for the backyard grapegrower or basement/garage winemaker. Other books may go into more detail but this is a comprehensive overview that encompasses each aspect of growing and winemaking.As a wine enthusiast, I have given thought (more than once) to learning more about the complete wine-making process. Reading this book has given me just enough confidence to try this as a backyard/basement hobbyist. It's not that I believe I can grow and make world-class wine -- rather, I expect to be able to appreciate the effort that goes into making a world-class wine. And, with any luck, I'll be able to make something worth drinking. The sections of the book on choosing grapes appropriate to your region, growing and training tips, fermentation, aging, bottling are all clearly written. The supply sources listed in the back are comprehensive enough to be able to find the basics. All in all, a very solid effort.