Concepts in Wine Technology - Tapa blanda

This detailed how-to guide, by physical chemist and winemaker Yair Margalit, is organized in the sequence of winemaking: in the vineyard - proper maturation, soil and climate, bunch health, vineyard disease states and grape varieties; pre-harvest - vineyard management and preparing the winery for harvest; harvesting - destemming, crushing and skin contact as it applies to both red and white grapes to pressing, must correction and temperature control; and, finally fermentation and cellar operations.

Yair Margalit, Ph.D., author of the best-selling Winery Technology and Operations and Concepts in Wine Chemistry, is a physical chemist with many years of research and teaching experience. He operates a small family vineyard and winery and teaches winemaking and wine chemistry at the Israel Institute of Technology - the 'Technicon.' He also visits and consults with wineries worldwide.