5.5 LITRE WINE OR FRUIT PRESS -

500 recipes for home-made wines and drinks

Wine Bottle Holder Bagpipe -

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2008 Edition (Windows on the World Complete Wine Course)

Wine Brewing Kit - Red -

Wine: A Woman’s Guide Customer Review: Wowed by Woman’s guide to wine
I learned as much about women as i did about wine! Kitty writes in a very informative yet witty manner. I could not stop turning the pages as if I was reading a novel. I suppose I was meant to dive in and out for useful info but I ended up reading from cover to cover. EVERY one of my girlfriends can expect it for Christmas.

21 Bottle Dual Climate Wine Cooler -

The Best Wines in the Supermarkets 2009 Customer Review: VINO
Easy guide to use but regretably recomendations did not hit the mark.
Very limited choice from Supermarkets such as Tesco as he does not have a strong link.
Customer Review: Useful and interesting
A very useful book, small enough to carry around with you when out shopping. The information given is detailed enough to make it an interesting read in its own right, and of course the benefit of the book is clear in the title. An excellent idea.

Screwpull by Le Creuset Wine Funnel with Stand, Stainless Steel -

Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

90 Bottle Wine Rack Kit - Natural Pine -

Michelin Travel Guide Wine Regions of France (Michelin Green Guides)

Wine Bottle Holder Ice-Hockey -

Joy of Home Wine Making Customer Review: My best wine-making book.
Let me use that old cliche, if you only buy one book on home wine-making then buy this one.

I have seven books on making wine. This is the one I always turn to first and the only one I have read cover to cover.

It is very readable, the only winemaking book I have with a sense of humour. It covers almost everything you could want. From the real basics, to really quite advanced stuff. It even has a potted history of winemaking.

But most of all the recipes never cease to turn out top notch wine, from bog-standard apple through unusual ones like kiwi to the use of herbs and spices.

Oh and don’t be put off by the fact that it is of American origin. This usual puts me right off this kind of book. Not in this case though.

So what are you waiting for?
Customer Review: A solid guide to home winemaking.
It has taken over 40 years for someone to write a better winemaking primer that C.J.J. Berry’s classic “First Steps in Winemaking,” and this is it. If you’ve never made wine before and would like to try it, this is the book for you. It is well written, rich in anecdotes, and easily understood. If you’ve made wine for years and think you know what you’re doing, I’m willing to bet you that “The Joy of Home Winemaking” will teach you much more than a mere thing or two.

Having been brought up through the ranks, as it were, on Berry’s “First Steps…” and having never found it insufficient as an instructional and recipe reference, it is almost painful to admit that someone has bettered the master. But Terry Garey clearly has.

“The Joy…” is thoughtfully divided into three sections — beginning, intermedient and advanced winemaking. Garey presents the basics, expands upon them, and then he expands some more. Not only is his presentation progressive, it is solidly educational. Best of all, the recipes are largely fresh, varied and inviting!

“The Joy…” is much more than a primer for making wine at home. The beginner invariably expects an identifiable relationship between the color, flavor and bouquet of the raw ingredients and the finished wine. While such a relationship exists, it is not the one that beginning winemakers expect. Garey goes where few have attempted to go before. He wants you to know what you will get, and that requires more than simply adjusting your expectations.

To accomplish this, Garey explains the principles and, to some degree, the chemistry that underlies the processes at work when wine is being made. He explains flavor extraction better than most, which spices produce which qualities, which fruits and vegetables complement each other when combined in the crock, which herbs and flowers work and which don’t, and so on. The result is not merely education, but firm understanding, and that is requisite to ex! perimentation and invention. It is this that he does better than Berry, and for that alone he should be read and reread by every winemaking hobbiest.

I still highly recommend C.J.J. Berry’s “First Steps in Winemaking” for the beginner, but I also highly recommend “The Joy of Home Winemaking” for the beginner and experienced alike. If you can only buy one, flip a coin. Better still, buy them both. The first is the classic. The second is destined to be.

Stainless Steel Vertical Wine Rack (8 Bottle Capacity) -

Wine Bar Food: Mediterranean Flavors to Crave with Wines to Match

Blomus Wine Rack - Wires - 6 Bottles - Stainless Steel -

The Wine Dark Sea A novelist, polemicist, occasional politician, and perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize, Leonardo Sciascia died in 1989. He left behind a formidable array of books, all of which revolve around the hallucinatory realities of Sicilian life. But the stories collected in The Wine-Dark Sea may be the best introduction to his work. They offer a kind of capsule-history of Sicily, ranging through several hundred years and engaging the country’s events from their exhilarating and terrible underside. A good comparison might be the naif’s-eye view of Waterloo that Stendhal creates in The Charterhouse of Parma. (Sciascia recalls Stendhal in other ways, too; he shares the same adamant clarity, the same bone-dry wit, which may explain why he’s always been a hard sell in the United States.)

These tales all have a certain riddling quality, whether they’re providing a nugget of Sicilian history or staging one of Sciascia’s many comedies of ironic disillusionment. The superb title story is about the bottomless chasm separating Sicilians and outsiders, bridged only temporarily by a group of strangers travelling from Rome to Agrigento. “Philology,” the closest thing to a classic Pirandellian exercise, lets us eavesdrop on two mafiosi cramming for an upcoming session with a Commission of Enquiry. The subject: how to answer the question, “What is the Mafia?” They consult a battery of dictionaries, arguing about the merits of various definitions and etymologies. We are left, in the end, with this reply: “Culture, my friend, is a wonderful thing.” So too is fiction, at least in Sciascia’s hands. He offers little in the way of certainty, but his questions, posed with deadly accuracy, are worth the answers of a dozen other authors. –James Marcus, Amazon.com

Vacuvin Vacuum Wine Saver-Pump & Stopper White -

Wine Away Stain Remover in Plastic Canister (12fl.oz) Customer Review: Quite Simply, This Stuff Works!

I found this product in a cookery shop in Seattle during a business trip, and have had to use it on several occasions. The most dramatic was only a week ago when I spilt a full glass of deep red cabernet sauvignon over a light green carpet and white sofa.

I just dabbed off as much as possible with kitchen towel and then liberally sprayed Wineaway on all the numerous splashes, spots and large areas, leaving it for a few minutes and then mopping up the residue with more towel. A final clean with a normal carpet shampoo (1001) returned the carpet and sofa to new - not a sign of a stain.

The only reason I am on this Amazon page is because I must now get some more, and had to do a Google search to find a UK suppler. Believe me, this is a fantastic product!

Customer Review: Can’t believe it worked!
I’ve never written a review of anything on Amazon before, be it good, bad or indifferent, but I felt I had to re: this product.
We bought a light beige fabric settee from friends, replete with red wine stain on the top, and side of one arm. A good two inches in diameter, trickling down pretty much the whole side of the settee. The plan was to get someone in to chemically clean the pair of settees, and remove the stain at the same time…..that was until I was quoted ?176 plus vat!!! I soon began searching for a cheaper solution. I was concerned that the stain itself had been there for months, it was actually hard, almost like a fabric burn mark.
I decided to buy this product and give it a try. If it didn’t work, well, I’d lost a few quid, but IF it did work, I’d save nearly 200 quid. It was worth the risk. It arrived a few days later, courtisy of Amazon, and I did as instructed, soaking the affected area, left it for a few mins, during which I became even more sceptical as no wine coloured emissions seemed to be drawn out of the settee, then, convinced it wouldn’t work, wiped the affected area with a cloth.
Amazingly almost 90% of the stain dissapeared - still unconvinced, I waited for the settee to dry as I felt it would inevitably leave the stain behind, but it didn’t, it had pretty much gone, and a second application to the area I had not probably covered entirely the first time around, and it was totally gone. So, as you can tell by now, I’m very happy! It seems to be chemical free, so doesn’t bleach anything, something I was worried about on the type of fabric I was using it on, and it smells really fresh and zesty - money very well spent.