The Winemaker's Hand is the next best thing to visiting a winery and chatting with a vintner. Natalie Berkowitz's fascinating interviews feature more than forty winemakers from diverse wine-producing regions describing the myriad factors that shape the complex process of converting grapes into wine. Winemakers from the United States, Chile, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain explain the factors that work to create a wide spectrum of wines across the globe. They offer rare insights into the impact of local terroirs and the vagaries of nature on historic and innovative winemaking practices. Most important, these conversations show how a winemaker's training, passion, artistry, experience, and traditions combine to shape their wines. This book features personal recipes, maps, and a history of each winemaking region. An aroma wheel captures the vast array of wine's complex flavors and scents.

In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines. Each winemaker details their personal approach to the various steps required to convert grapes into wine. Natalie Berkowitz speaks to winemakers from different backgrounds who work in diverse wine-producing regions, including Chile, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and the United States. They talk about familiar and unfamiliar grape varietals, their struggles with local terroirs, and the vagaries of Mother Nature. Some represent small family wineries with limited production while others work for corporations producing hundreds of thousands of bottles. Each individual offers rare insight into how new technologies are revolutionizing historic winemaking practices. The interviews are supplemented with personal recipes and maps of winemaking regions. An aroma wheel captures the vast array of wine's complex flavors and aromas.