The Ultimate Fruit Winemaker's Guide: The Complete Reference Manual For All Fruit Winemakers - Paperback

by Dominic Rivard (Author)

This essential text and reference offers a complete guide to fruit wines. It will prove to be invaluable for all winemakers, from the amateur to the commercial producer. Written with attention to detail and a passion for fruit wine, this book goes through the considerations for setting up a winery to the production process, designing a fruit wine recipe to suit any wine style, analysis, stability issues, packaging, marketing and sales. Covered in the book: - Detailed Overview of Fruit Wine Industry - Anatomy of Winemaking Fruits - Winemaking Techniques and Production - Laboratory Analysis and Evaluation - Award Winning Recipes - Tasting, Judging and the fine art of Balance - Manage the Business, Cost and Finance Data - Marketing, Sales and Industry Know-how - Complete List of Buyers and Importers - Plus a lot more...

Author Biography

Dominic is involved in the wine industry as an award winning commercial winemaker. He is passionate about wines, especially of the "non-grape" variety. With over 18 years experience in the wine industry, Dominic has been in wine in some fashion since the age of 17 when he started making wine from local fruits and grapes. After becoming a qualified sommelier, he studied winemaking and oenologyc completed the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) certification and is now studying towards the prestigious Master of Wine accreditation. He is a founding director of the Fruit Wines of Canada Association, which was involved in promoting wines and its industry throughout Canada. Dominic has won hundreds of awards and medals in national and international wine competitions. This has included the best desert wine in Canada in 2007 and best Canadian Fruit wine in 2010 as well as various best of show awards in fruit wine and desert wine categories. Over the last decade and a half, Dominic has been busy running numerous wine production and exportation projects for wineries in Canada, USA, the UK, Italy, Spain, Chile, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Korea, Japan as well as China. He has been a speaker on the subject of winemaking and wine marketing at various symposiums throughout the world. He is very excited about the developments in the fruit wine industry and its great potential on a global basis. More info at: www.fruitwineguide.com Introduction and sample chapters: http: //www.scribd.com/doc/10116352/Ultimate-Fruit-Winemakers-Guide-Intro