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Winemaker’s Bookshelf
By Gary Strachan
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Chemical Society (ACS)
we haven’t
changed very
The 1974 version sitting
8412-3592-2. 1998.
on my shelf hasn’t been
Week by providing free internet access
celebrated National Chemistry
much. We still
to all of the 1,200 books in its
when I browsed it I found
opened in many years, yet
Symposium Series.
in the vineyard and extract
make flavours
them in the winery. The rest descriptions of winemaking
that although the
chemist – the 140th anniversary of
It was a significant anniversary for a
is just detail. in a chemical context lacked
Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of the
symposium edited by Dinsmoor Webb;
I also have an earlier
Elements. I remember in high school,
that understanding the periodic table
Chemistry of Winemaking. ISBN 0-
still a good presentation of
a few modern details, it’s
was the key to my understanding
8412-0208-7. 1974. This is not to be
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the fundamental processes of
winemaking. It describes details of
chemistry. Almost anything you ever
need to know about inorganic
chemistry is organized into this table
that can fit on one page.
Symposia was a like turning a kid loose
Giving me free access to the ACS
in a candy shop. I hardly knew where
Winery Supplies
to start. I did a search of the word
“wine” and found six symposia of
which I already had two on my
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ACS titles.
already had on my shelf was
The first of the ACS Symposia I
Production Technology in the United
Wine
States.
1981.) It’s still a relevant book, written
(ISBN 9780-8412-0596-5.
by a knowledgeable panel of authors. It
opens with a paper on the history of
the American wine industry to 1960 by
Maynard Amerine.
Department of Enology and Viticulture
Amerine was head of the
at the University of California at Davis.
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