Once people made country wines solely from the fruits of their gardens & local hedgerows but today there is a wide range of fascinating ingredients available
- grape juice concentrates grains dried fruit exotic fruit juices
- to allow winemakers to pursue their crafts all year round independent of fruiting seasons. Now in its third edition this book has already reprinted forty-one times & has sold over 500 000 copies. It contains (in alphabetical order from Almond Wine to Yarrow Wine) 130 tried & reliable recipes for country wines & real ales many of which are unique to this publication & which supplement those found in the author's primer First Steps in Winemaking. The book is illustrated by the well-known winemaking cartoonist Rex Royle.