You Made This?! A Guide to Making Wine No One Knows Is Homemade

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

The fundamentals of making wine at home are equipment, planning, and
cleaning. This poorly edited book is a fair account of the process of
turning concentrates and juices into wines. Bachelder covers the basics:
red and white wine production; primary and secondary fermentation;
filtering; blending; maturing (oak); bottling and labeling; and the most
popular grape varieties. Not just for the novitiate, this book has lots
of tips for veterans too. But the author never does reveal why so much
sugar is required with concentrates; nor does he seem to know anything
about frozen juices and must, calling them the “next big thing”
when, in fact, they have been around for ages.