Making organic wine in your garden: Planting, cultivating, harvesting, fermenting... | Jean-Claude Le Bihan

Family and Associative GuideFrom planting to tasting, here is everything you need to know to learn how to produce your own organic wine for family consumption: choose the grape varieties to grow, plant them, prune them, protect them naturally from diseases and pests to have a good harvest, tread the grapes, press them, vinify them into red, dry white or sparkling wine, bottle them ... You will discover all the secrets of grape fermentation, not to mention possible difficulties and their solutions. An annual calendar of viticulture and winemaking will give you an overview of the tasks to be carried out throughout the year, for better organization. And finally, you will find some information on current legislation if you decide to practice viticulture in an associative setting. Concerned with preserving the environment and health, the author develops in this book gentle and proven techniques for producing a natural wine that will delight enthusiasts while offering the pleasure of production and tasting, a great outdoor hobby and the opportunity for wonderful encounters and collective reflection on what is good, healthy, and local!