Kit Winemaking The Illustrated Beginner's

Providing day-by-day instructions for novice winemakers, this guide takes the guesswork out of using kits and concentrates for producing high quality wine at home. Covering everything the hobbyist vintner needs to know about the winemaking process, this informative handbook discusses the different kinds of winemaking kits that are on the market, presents solutions to the most common problems experienced by kit winemakers with tips on how to avoid these pitfalls, and includes a glossary that demystifies winemaking lingo.

Daniel Pambianchi is the founder and CEO of Cadenza Wines, which operates Maleta Winery. He is a regular columnist and technical editor for WineMaker magazine, and the author of Techniques in Home Winemaking. He lives in Montreal.

Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Why make wine from a kit?	p. 13
Winemaking 101	p. 14
Contains sulfites	p. 18
Winemaking Kits	p. 21
Kinds of wine kits	p. 22
What is included in a wine kit	p. 24
Wine styles	p. 27
Behind the scenes in kit production	p. 29
Winemaking Equipment	p. 31
Carboys: glass versus plastic	p. 39
Making Wine	p. 41
Sanitization	p. 42
Juice preparation	p. 43
Fermentation	p. 48
Stabilization and clarification	p. 52
Filtration	p. 57
To filter or not to filter?	p. 60
Bottling and aging	p. 61
Dealing With Problems	p. 65
Fermentation is sluggish or stuck	p. 65
Wine is refermenting in bottles	p. 66
Wine is sweet, not dry	p. 66
Wine is too dry	p. 67
Wine is cloudy	p. 68
Wine is fizzy	p. 68
Wine smells and tastes "grapey"	p. 69
Wine smells of rotten eggs (H2S)	p. 69
Something has gone terribly wrong	p. 70
Advanced Topics	p. 73
Choosing yeasts	p. 73
Chaptalization	p. 75
Managing total acidity (TA) and pH	p. 76
Sulfite management	p. 77
Cold stabilization	p. 80
Malolactic fermentation	p. 81
Blending	p. 81
Appendices	p. 85
Conversion factors between Metric, Imperial and US systems	p. 86
Winemaking Log Chart	p. 88
Glossary	p. 91
Index	p. 103
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