Massive Tome Tackles Wine Quality

Reynolds taps scientists from Spain to South Africa to contribute to two-part reference manual

Theoretically, the process of making wine is relatively simple: Yeasts convert the sugar in grapes or grape juice into alcohol, and the resulting product is wine. However, only neophytes in the wine business think that growing grapes and making wine is an easy task. At every step along the way, science intersects with the art and skill of the grapegrower and winemaker through a complex series of s…