Lum Eisenman
Most home winemaking books are written like cookbooks. They contain winemaking recipes and step by
step directions, but little technical information is included. The goal of these books is to provide enough
information so the reader can make a successful batch of wine. Enology textbooks are the other extreme.
They are very technical and can be difficult to comprehend without a background in chemistry and
microbiology. These books are intended to give professional winemakers the specialized backgrounds
needed to solve the wide variety of problems encountered in commercial wine production.
This book is an attempt to provide beginning home winemakers with basic “how to” instructions as well as providing an introduction to some of the more technical aspects of winemaking. However, the technical material has been concentrated in a few chapters, so readers can easily ignore much of the technical content until an interest develops.