There are few good text books dealing with microorganisms associated with viticulture and winemaking. I expected that this publication would be one of them. Unfortunately this was not the case. While individual chapters are, in general, well presented and readable, the INDEX is woefully inaccurate. Few buyers of text books read the book from cover to cover. Because of specific interests, readers would use the Index to search for a topic of interest to them. The Index in this publication would leave a reader frustrated. For example, none of the five pages referred to under "diacetyl" contained any reference to diacetyl. Of the three pages referred to for "Weissella" only one page contains pertinent material.

Given the inaccuracies of the Index one has to wonder about the accuracy of the material in this publication as a whole.