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Enrolled in a VESTA Course and wondering if you need a text?  Here is a list of the VESTA courses and the texts required.

VITICULTURE

Course Code Text Cost Supplier
VIN 111

Required Text

Grape Growing

Weaver, Robert J.

New York: John Wiley and Sons (1976)

New - $110.51

Used - $40

Amazon.com

or

Redlands Community College Bookstore

VIN 113

Required Text

Viticulture, Volume 2 Practices., edited by B.G. Coombe and P.R. Dry; publisher WineTitles Adelaide 1992 (last reprint 1998).

$50.00 http://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/Display.cfm?ItemID=329
VIN 115

Required Text

Sunlight into wine, Smart, Richard & Robinson, Mike, Adelaide, Australia:  Winetitles, (2003).

$49.50 Australian Dollars https://winetitles.com.au/bookstore/bookstore.asp?action=details&item=65
VIN 211

Required Text

Midwest Commercial Small Fruit and Grape Spray Guide

$5.00

Downloaded in PDF form

MSU - Mtn. Grove Research Station

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/hort/ext/sfg

VIN 213

Required Text

Instructor generated notebook

  MSU-West Plains Bookstore

VIN 293

Required Texts

Soils for Fine Wines
White, Robert E.
Oxford University Press

ISBN# 0-19-514102-4

 

"Soil Fertility Manual"
from Phosphate and Potash Institute

Used and New from $69.65

 

New from $25

Amazon.com

 

http://www.store.yahoo.com/ppi-store/soilferman.html


 

ENOLOGY

Course Code Text Cost Supplier
VIN 146

Required Texts

Micro Vinification, Dharmadhikari and Wilker

 

Wine Analysis and Production Zoecklein, Fugelsang, Gump and Nury. 1999.

ISBN 0-8342-1701-5

 

Wine Making Kit  with ingredients.

New - $30

 

 

 

New and Used available from $106

 

 

 

$149.95

MSU - Mtn. Grove Research Station

 

 

 

Amazon.com

 

 

 

Homebrewers Outpost

VIN 148 No text required    
VIN 160

Recommended Reference

Winery Utilities Planning, Design and Operation. David R. Storm., Chapman and Hall. New York. 1997

New and Used available from $95

 

http://www.amazon.com/Winery-Utilities-David-R-Storm/dp/0834219816/ref=ed_oe_h/102-0732174-6417763
VIN 246

Required Text

Wine Analysis and Production Zoecklein, Fugelsang, Gump and Nury. 1999.

ISBN 0-412-98921-2

 

Suggested Reference

Principles and Practices of Winemaking,  by Boulton, Singleton, Bisson, Kunkee, 1996. ISBN 0-412-06411-1

New and used from $80.30

 

 

New and Used from $110

Amazon.com

 

 

Amazon.com

VIN 266

Required Text

The University Wine Course: A Comprehensive Text and Self Tutorial, by Baldy. ISBN 0-932664-69-5

Wine Sensory Kit

(This kit consisting of multiple bottles of wine, and other sensory supplies will be assembled by and purchased from the instructor.)

$35.00

 

$300.00

 

The Wine Appreciation Guild

 

 

 

VIN 268

Suggested Reference

Basic Wine Analysis (DVD)

 Rey, K.

 

A typical Quantitative Analysis Text

 

  $25

 

MSU-Mtn. Grove Research Station

VIN 270

Required Text

Successful Wine Marketing, Lapsley, J., & Moulton, K., (2001)

New - $94.69

Amazon.com

or

Redlands CC Bookstore

VIN 272

Required Text

Customer Service: Building Successful Skills for the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Edition

Lucas, Robert W.

Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005

New $48.19

Used $23

Amazon.com

or

Redlands CC Bookstore

 

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