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

John Abbott is a professor of history at Laurentian University’s Algoma University College. He is the co-author of The Border at Sault Ste Marie and The History of Fort St. Joseph.

One cannot imagine a more concise, structured, and lucidly written manual for the production of wine from kits. In fewer than 100 pages the author covers the rationale for home kit wines; the range, contents, styles, and background information relevant to the genre; equipment and techniques required for the process; problems that arise in the course of making the wines and their solutions; and more sophisticated applications, such as the selection of yeasts, chaptalization, acidity, sulfites, stabilization, malolactic fermentation, and blending. Daniel Pambianchi is experienced in the industry, contributes to WineMaker magazine as technical editor, and is a member of the American Wine Society and the Society of Wine Educators. It is a worthy companion volume to Pierre Drapeau and Andre Vanasse’s The Encyclopedia of Home Winemaking, Fermentation and Winemaking Methods.

Highly recommended.