Bringing Wine Making Back to the Backyard With Fun, Easy-to-Find Ingredients

With 500,000 copies sold, the popular wine making book for the backyard farmer is back in print

(LANCASTER, PA) For the at-home vintner who wants to make a variety of wines in their own kitchen using traditional, unique, and even easy-to-grow ingredients from their own garden comes the back-in-print, bestseller 130 New Winemaking Recipes (Fox Chapel Publishing, September 1, 2011).

From celebrated brewing and wine making expert C.J.J. Berry, 130 New Winemaking Recipes includes delicious concoctions for country wines using traditional ingredients like elderberries, rose-hips, and fruits & vegetables from the garden. It also offers easy-to-follow recipes using unique ingredients to achieve special flavors, like figs, rice, and bananas. There are even easy recipes utilizing fruit juice concentrates. Whatever the preference, there's sure to be a recipe that will capture the interest of any backyard farmer - and prompt a festive wine tasting among friends.

Also back in print from the same author is his best-selling book, First Steps in Winemaking (also published by Fox Chapel Publishing). Together these two books can be used to make robust reds, whites and other flavorful wines anytime throughout the year - not just during fruiting seasons.

Other books from C.J.J. Berry:

About the Author:

Cyril Berry was one of Britain's leading winemakers. Co-founder of the first Winemakers' Circle, founder Chairman of the National Association and former Editor-Publisher of the monthly magazine, the Amateur Winemaker, he wrote several other books on winemaking and home brewing; upon which he was an acknowledged expert. He frequently appeared on television, and was an established lecturer and wine judge. Mr. Berry died in 2002 in his hometown of Andover, Hampshire.