Kit Winemaking: The Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Making Wines from Concentrate

Kit Winemaking: The Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Making Wines from Concentrate

by Daniel Pambianchi
Kit Winemaking: The Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Making Wines from Concentrate

Kit Winemaking: The Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Making Wines from Concentrate

by Daniel Pambianchi

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Overview

Kit Winemaking provides beginners with day-by-day instructions on making superlative kit wines, often undistinguishable from homemade ones crafted from grapes, or even commercial wines.The trend is clearthere is an increasing number of new wine hobbyists with one out of five just starting out in home winemaking and two-thirds using kits/concentrate. With the vast improvement in kit qualityand hence, wine qualityand with a plethora of wine kits and styles now available, home winemaking has become a very serious hobby.This guide describes the most common problems, how to resolve them, and how to avoid them in the first place. All this is supplemented with a handy glossary to the entire winemaking lingo to turn any novice into an expert.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550652666
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Daniel Pambianchi is the founder/ CEO of Cadenza Wines Inc., which operates Maleta Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He is a columnist and Technical Editor for WineMaker magazine. He divides his time between Montreal and Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgments 11

1 Introduction 13

Why make wine from a kit? 13

Winemaking 101 14

Contains sulfites 18

2 Winemaking Kits 21

Kinds of wine kits 22

What is included in a wine kit 24

Wine styles 27

Behind the scenes in kit production 29

3 Winemaking Equipment 31

Carboys: glass versus plastic 39

4 Making Wine 41

Sanitization 42

Juice preparation 43

Fermentation 48

Stabilization and clarification 52

Filtration 57

To filter or not to filter? 60

Bottling and aging 61

5 Dealing With Problems 65

Fermentation is sluggish or stuck 65

Wine is refermenting in bottles 66

Wine is sweet, not dry 66

Wine is too dry 67

Wine is cloudy 68

Wine is fizzy 68

Wine smells and tastes "grapey" 69

Wine smells of rotten eggs (H2S) 69

Something has gone terribly wrong 70

6 Advanced Topics 73

Choosing yeasts 73

Chaptalization 75

Managing total acidity (TA) and pH 76

Sulfite management 77

Cold stabilization 80

Malolactic fermentation 81

Blending 81

Appendices 85

Appendix A Conversion factors between Metric, Imperial and US systems 86

Appendix B Winemaking Log Chart 88

Glossary 91

Index 103

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