Northern Winework : Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Cold Climates (2nd Edition).

Northern Winework : Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Cold Climates (2nd Edition). by Tom Plocher and Bob Parke. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780970978424.

First published in 2002, this second edition to the standard guidebook for viniculturalists of frigid, northern climates, details the technical leaps of recent years in growing and making quality cold-weather wines. The new and updated material in this edition include enhancing winter survival, evaluating your regional climate for grape growing, selecting a good vineyard site, retraining winter-injured vines, protecting vines from spring-frost injury, matching varieties with climate constraints, applying the lessons of warm winemaking to cold-weather grapes, equipping and stocking a home winery, recognizing spoilage problems and applying remedies, selecting yeast strains for specific wine styles, and blending methodology for cold-weather varieties. A revised and expanded appendix of cold weather grape varieties, organized by categories of relative hardiness, is also included.