Nearest wine country so close: in palm of your hand - Chicago Sun-TimesBumping along in a wooden wagon pulled by winemaker Doug Welsch’s tractor, past vines heavy with late August grapes, seems a little like riding through northern California wine country. Unlike Napa, this place isn’t crawling with busloads of tourists A decade [...]
Nearest wine country so close: in palm of your hand - Chicago Sun-Times
Bumping along in a wooden wagon pulled by winemaker Doug Welsch’s tractor, past vines heavy with late August grapes, seems a little like riding through northern California wine country. Unlike Napa, this place isn’t crawling with busloads of tourists
A decade of delights at Beverly restaurant - Boston Globe
Hours: Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sunday 5 - 9 p.m. Ten years ago, Bangkok native Brian Hirikul opened Siam Delight in a small storefront on Cabot Street in Beverly. Soon, word spread throughout the
Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide, 7th Edition: The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All … Wine Regions (Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide)
Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world’s best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker’s stated goal: “To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider’s information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision.”
Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine’s pedigree, Parker’s eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information.
The latest edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls “the most powerful critic of any kind.”
Home winemaking, step-by-step: A guide to fermenting vinifera grapes
Umpqua grape harvest proves fruitful for church - San Jose Mercury News Umpqua grape harvest proves fruitful for churchSan Jose Mercury News, USA - Nov 2, 2008How can picking wine grapes at the Reustle Prayer Rock Vineyard in central Douglas County have any tie to laying bricks in the building of a church in … Grape Bowl Classic [...]
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Home winemaking, step-by-step: A guide to fermenting vinifera grapes
A Guide to Fermenting Wine Grapes.
Customer Review: it is not, in fact, for most “focused beginners”
First I want to clarify that if you’re actually a serious experienced wine maker and want to learn all the ins and outs of perfecting the wines you hand crushed from your private orchard then this is in fact a good book. My beef is that it claims to be for “focused beginners” and it is way too advanced for that.
I was already quite familiar with the similar process of beer brewing so I had a leg up on most people but I still had to read through advanced processes and a sea of chemical terminology hoping they’d be defined and make sense later.
What makes this book poor for newcomers is that it tends to dive straight into specifics without taking a step back and explaining basics like what is going on or why.
What you can expect from this book is more of a reference manual of tips and tricks for perfecting your processes - not book that broadens your general understanding or appreciation of wine.
Customer Review: good info but sometimes unclear
I bought this book b/c I expect to start doing my own winemaking. This
book has a lot of good info and is very informative.
This book approaches the topic from two angles.
1. You’ll be making wine from grapes
2. You’ll be making wine from kits/concentrates
Now the problem isn’t that it covers both topics, but that I was sometimes
unsure which angle the author was coming from.
For example, he talks about various procedures used in the wine making
process. But I was often unsure whether some procedure would only be done
if you were making wine from kits, or if you followed only when making wine from grapes.
So from a beginner’s stand-point, reading this book didn’t always make sense.
I suppose it will after I start making my own wine, but for a non-experienced beginner, I felt like some clarification needed to be
made as to which steps were followed in each method (grapes or kits).
I think another reviewer used the word “tangled”. I kind of have to
agree b/c it wasn’t always clear which method the author was referring
to.
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