Home Winemaking For Dummies® Kindle Edition

There is more information then I needed but it was very instrumental in guiding me through my wine making process

I was looking for shortcuts in making wine at home, this did not help at first glance. The book starts out with, do you want to make cheap wine or good wine? I wanted to do both. It then dismisses making cheap wine and focuses on the "good" wine. With that said, it only covers making wine from fresh grapes (when you look for "juice" in the appendix it says see grape and there is no listing there for grape juice). I am used to making wine from grape juice from the supermarket and I'm not buying bunches of fresh grapes to make wine (2.8 lbs per bottle). If you do buy fresh grapes get a grape press first, lol. So I guess I'm more in the cheap wine category than good wine, but the book doesn't seem to help you out there. Not a basic book, more like a college class textbook. If you need to know everything about wine-making I'm not sure this is a good book but at over 300 pages long, this is not a basic reference book for beginners. At least put a quick start in this thing, it's a whole lot of technical information. I, like another reviewer, have other home wine-making books that are more to the point. I probably will never get another of the Dummies books because I rarely read them fully as they are not that easy to understand and don't offer shortcuts.

This is a gift for the boyfriend. He's started growing grapes and made his first batch of wine this year from redneck YouTube videos. This book will give him more info on the process. Fingers crossed we don't get ill from the first attempt.

I really want to give this a better review but alas, I cannot. I enjoyed the book, but the breakdowns were overly complex. If you are just getting started this is going to be a hard read for you with all of the scientifical information flying at you at once. I was hoping for a dumbed down (literally, for dummies) version of every single winemakers guide I picked but instead got another techosavvy one full of mystery and confusion like the rest. My head spun with the extravagant setups and procedures.If you know and understand the principals of what you are doing it's a great book. If you have done it before and want MORE out of what you are doing it's great as well. If you are a beginner and want a step by step guide on how to make wine? Ask a friend who makes it. That has been the only clear cut answer I have ever gotten. This is more like a science book vs. an instruction manual (for dummies).

This book is amazing. If you want a step by step book, this is not for you. But if you want to understand how to select the grapes, the steps and the process of making wine. How to fix problems, make your wine better, this is the book you need to get.

This was a gift for my dad who is a hobbyist brewer and wine maker. He has been making wine using the kits you would get from a store and he wanted to get into it a little bit more, so asked for this book for Christmas. While the information itself is good, he had mentioned to get everything they say you need to get into this will take over a few thousand dollars. That being said he said the processes seem a little bit more steps than making beer, but the book itself is informative.

I owned one of the first copies of this book and have nothing but respect for the great (and now, sadly, late) Tim Patterson.Tim made fine wines – mostly forceful reds, never merlot, plenty of zinfandels, pinot noir only when the grapes were at their peak, and an occasional rose, chenin blanc, or sparkling white – from 1997 to 2013. After the first few years, every bottle of his wine was spoken for by the time it was bottled, and I certainly bought three or four cases a year. The wine was sometimes startling but never disappointing.I have read this book from cover to cover and am convinced that it will tell the serious amateur winemaker everything s/he needs to know. If you are considering producing your own wine, whether for home consumption or sale, this book should be your first investment.

Tim Patterson's Home Winemaking for Dummies, Kindle Edition, is a good read from cover to cover; however, that's probably not the way that most people will use it. The edition for iPhone Kindle app is in some ways more useful than the print version because it's searchable. The book clearly is geared toward home winemakers who do pretty much (or entirely) the whole process from scratch. The book is less useful--and certainly less necessary--for home winemakers who use the kits that are available today. For easy-to-understand explanations of the various chemical and biological processes, as well as for helpful tips, though, this is nice book.

I found this book brilliant in that the technical detail explains, simply, so much about wine making that others miss. For example temperature control using an electric blanket, refractometer readings and so on. Excellent Book

This is going to be an amazing book for me next season living in the mountains in Portugal we had an amazing crop this year about 200 litres was produced by a friend, I am so excited for the next crop and this book will be my bible.

Bit difficult to understand even though intended for novices like me.

This book is way over the top of you want a simple book to make your very first batch of wine. No step by step instructions for a beginner.

Waffles a lot to get to the point and not suitable for beginer. Does not say on descripter that it is ONLY for grapes, with no other fruit included.