• Wine Making for the Total Novice

  • By: Kyle Richards
  • Narrated by: Dan McGowan
  • Length: 59 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (44 ratings)

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Wine Making for the Total Novice

By: Kyle Richards
Narrated by: Dan McGowan
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Publisher's summary

If you’re a wine connoisseur or a casual weekend sipper, Wine Making for the Total Novice is the perfect guide to put the pride and pleasure of wine making into your hands! Don’t be intimidated by the acres of grapes and barns of heavy equipment at the vineyards, you can make delicious wine at home, and this book shows you how!

No need for experience, we’ve broken the process down into simple steps so anybody can make delicious, fragrant wine in your own home and have fun doing it! Share with family and friends or save it for special occasions. It is so rewarding to give a bottle of wine you made to a friend or loved one as a gift.

Some common questions people who have never made wine before are:

  • What kind of grapes should I use?
  • What equipment do I need?
  • How expensive is that equipment?
  • Is it difficult to make wine from my home?
  • How is wine made?

This audiobook addresses these questions and more. With our simple process, your favorite wine will soon have your name on the label! No more staring at endless shelves of overpriced mystery wines at the store. Wine Making for the Total Novice will ensure that you can start making wine in no time! Download your copy now.

©2014 Val Garner (P)2014 Val Garner

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good for rookies

not bad very educational and enjoyable. I'm already a wine maker and didn't learn anything too new but it's a great book if you've been thinking about making wine.

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Listened to it twice!

for the TOTAL novice with no experience at all it is pretty informative! learned a lot of cool facts and I appreciate the simplicity. definitely a great listen for someone completely new to the industry.

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wine making total novice

Good book I enjoyed it and it was helpful it confirm some of the other information that I have obtained from the Internet but in a simple one place.

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Great book to start out with

What did you love best about Wine Making for the Total Novice?

It was simple to the point

What about Dan McGowan’s performance did you like?

This guy was smooth I like how he speaks

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

The items you need for the stuff

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Good for the very beginning hobbiest like me.

Enjoyable and very basically informative. Just what I needed to get started. Is a must have for the beginning winemaker.

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too simplified for me

I am a novice but would still would like to understand the processes . the outline is clear but there is no mention of the why's.

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Well written

I would recommend this book to the home wine maker.great beginners guide and information source and reference

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Very Unfocused

I tuned out by the time it got to the wine making part because it was so poorly written.

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Mostly not about wine making

The book spends more time talking about wine tasting than it does about wine making. Then it gives only a perfunctory walk through of the wine making process itself. I know this book is for novices, but it fails to progress past that — there is little reason more time couldn’t be spent giving depth beyond what is here. For example, they don’t even talk about making white wines.

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not worth the price of postage

What would have made Wine Making for the Total Novice better?

i am a home winemaker so i was hoping some a fair amount of detail. this was not the case:simplistic. I suppose if you ere making wine from welch's it might be helpful.

Would you ever listen to anything by Kyle Richards again?

yeswho spoke it was not the issue; it

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Dan McGowan?

not sure

What character would you cut from Wine Making for the Total Novice?

not the character, the book

Any additional comments?

waste of time to listen or read

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