Following up on his bestselling "Winery Technology and Operations," physical chemist and winemaker Yair Margalit comes out with the successive, "Concepts in Wine Technology," fully updated and revised to meet the advances of modern winemaking. Among the extended topics are fermentation, skin contact, acid balance, phenolics, bottling, the use of oak and quality control. He begins in the vineyard discussing proper maturation, soil and climate, bunch health, vineyard disease states, and grape varieties. Next he tackles the preharvest with a careful look at vineyard management and preparing the...