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Getting Started

Basic Wine Making Procedures Covering red and white wines as well as mead.

Beginner's Checklist This page has some good basic info to give you an idea what you are getting into.

Grape Guru Information about anything related to grapes.

Making Table Wine  This is a great little book made available in PDF format by UC Davis.

The Home Wine Makers Manual A free book that covers all aspects of winemaking.

Wine Yeast Comparisons If you want to use WyYeast, they give you a great guide to selecting one for the wine you are making.
 


 
 
 

Magazines & News

Wine Maker Magazine is a great little publication worth subscribing to. The website offers some articles from past issues as well as hints and tips from the pros.

Wine Update News The daily log of international wine news, wine reviews, and wine events, from Australia to Napa to South Africa.  The first stop for navigating the world of wine on the web. WineUpdate.com gathers the day's news, reviews, and event postings and summarizes them with links to the source pages.  Over a thousand of these sources are categorized and rated on the Links page.
 
 


 
 
 
 
 

Recipes

Recipes for Fruit & Other Wines Looking for a recipe for blackberry or parsley wine? Those and many others are on this page. Just visit WineKitz Resources page, then select Recipes.

More Fruit Wine Recipes Don't miss the instructions page on the right side of the page.


 
 
 
 
 

Stores

Beer, Beer & More Beer Despite the name, this store, out of Concord, CA sells winemaking supplies on the net.

Beer & Wine Hobby Offers everything you need to make beer, wine, cheese, vinegar and even to grow mushrooms.

Brehm Vineyards sells premium wine grapes to home winemakers and small wineries.

The Cellar Homebrew A good store for all the basics. Based in Seattle, WA.

Double A Vineyards Online Catalog  A supplier of quality grapevines and berry bushes. They also have a bit of info on spacing and planting vines.

Homebrew Heaven In addition to all the common supplies, this store offers fruit presses, crushers and real oak barrels in 5, 6, 10, 12 and 30 gallon sizes.

Lodi Wine Grapes sells great wine grapes directly. You can buy most of the top varietals in 45 pound cases to crush and make your own wine.

Midwest Homebrewing Supplies out of Minneapolis offers a wide selection of kits for brewing and wine making. They also have a nice selection of books.

My Own Labels So you have made a great wine, now you need some high quality labels to make it look great. This place offers some really nice ones at good prices.

Napa Fermentation Supplies offers everything you need to brew beer or make wine at home.

Presque Isle Wine Cellars sells a wide variety of grapes and juices.

Simmons Berry Farm Is another supplier of grapevines

Sonoma Antique Apple Nursery  Another supplier of grapevines and other quality fruit plants.

St. Pats of Texas Offers information and complete line of products for home brewing, wine, cider and mead making.

Wine Kitz is one of the leading retailers of wine and beer making kits in North America. They have 86 stores across Canada and sell their kits on the internet to consumers in the US and Canada.

Winemakers Emporium In addition to all the supplies, check out the information on all aspects of home winemaking, including fruit wines and recipes.
 


 
 
 
 
 

Resources

Cellermasters  is a wine making club in Southern California.

Grape Guru Information about anything related to grapes.

GrapeSeek  Is a specialty search engine, focused on wine, grapes, and grape growing.

Home Wine & Beer Trade Association  strives to promote the responsible growth of the home wine & beer making industry. Their site includes a brief overview of brewing and wine-making, as well as consumer information, competitions, and conferences.

Lon Rombough- Horticultural Consultant  Consultation on plant varieties and cultural practices; sources of plants; breeding and developing new varieties and more.

My Own Labels So you have made a great wine, now you need some high quality labels to make it look great. This place offers some really nice ones at good prices.

Wine Academia Great resources including the UC Davis library.

Wine Courses Really want to get serious about winemaking? UC Davis offers courses in wine appreciation as well as viticulture & enology. They even offer some of them via the internet.

Winemakers Emporium In addition to all the supplies, check out the information on all aspects of home winemaking, including fruit wines and recipes.

Winery Master is a software program designed to help organize and track vintage procedures from crush through bottling. It automatically calculates many of the most important specifications, i.e. Brix and  pH adjustments. I've never used it, but it looks good.

Yeast Temperature Charts provided by WyYeast Labs.
 
 


 
 


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