Concepts in Wine Technology

Yair Margalit Ph.D.
 

This is a "how-to" book organized in the sequence of the processes a winemaker faces when confronted with the rapid challenge of converting fresh grapes into good wine. As the author points out the grapes will make wine by themselves due to natural biological and chemical processes. However to make good wine or even great wine nature must be guided by the skilled and artful hand of the winemaker.
 

From "pre-harvest" to "bottling" this is a thorough and logical handbook for wine production with emphasis on practical and applied science. There are enlarged sections on fermentation skin contact acid balance the use of oak and quality control. 263 pp