"Lum" > wrote in message
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> "Scribe" > wrote in message
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> > "Doug Miller" > wrote in message
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> > > In article >, "Scribe"
> > > wrote:
> > > >Can anyone Help? I am after a good book on growing grapes for wine
> > > >commercially. Anyone have any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > "From Vines to Wines" comes to mind.
> > >
> > > However..... no offense intended, but are you sure you're ready to do
> this
> > > commercially? It seems to me that part of the proper preparation for
> going
> > > into business at anything is a knowledge of the business sufficient
that
> > one
> > > does not need to ask on the Internet for books about how to do it.
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> > You have to start somewhere, and what better way that to read a good
book
> on
> > it.
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> Scribe, "General Viticulture" by A.J. Winkler, J. A. Cook, W. M. Kliewer
and
> L. A Lider, 1974 published by University of California Press is the still
> the "standard" viniculture text book,
>
> Lum
> Del Mar, California, USA

Thanks. I'll give it a go. The Californians put wine making down to an
exact science. The French said it was in your blood, and other such
nonsense.