Wine category: 1427 books

This vintage book contains a complete guide to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, including detailed historical information, directions for making a variety of different drinks, comments on physiology and diet, and much more. "The Flowing Bowl - When and What to Drink" is highly recommended for...

Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine’s worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south...

‘Hand harvesting was a different process to machine harvesting. It was convivial and slow. We started at dawn and slowly proceeded across the vineyards. It was better for us and for the grapes, the human scale and pace of it more peaceful and joyful.’ But this rose-tinted glimpse of life...

In recent years, viticulture has seen phenomenal growth, particularly in such countries as Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Chile, and South Africa. The surge in production of quality wines in these countries has been built largely on the practice of good enology and investment in high technology...

New techniques, new recipes, and a new chapter on stout have been added to Mr. Beadle's best-selling manual for all who want to produce at home a superb brew that is high in nutrition and low in calories. It is no longer necessary, if you follow the author's procedure, to mash barley and invest in...

Making Fine Wines itemizes the simple equipment needed for wine-making, and clearly describes the procedures for making wine and sparkling wines, sherry and port. There is also an extensive section on liqueurs. Making Fine Wines and Liqueurs at Home is a companion volume to Brew It Yourself...

The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Lightly is a love letter to wine and everything that came with it. But the passionate tale has a sorry...

In the past few decades, many of us have become sophisticated about food, but we have not given the same attention to what we drink. In How to Drink, Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by showing how to drink well throughout the seasons and at all times of day.She explains how to make...

A simple guide to matching main courses with easy-to-find wines 100 Perfect Pairings: Main Dishes to Enjoy with Wines You Love helps you prepare main dishes that will perfectly complement the wines of your choice. An ideal resource for both casual dinners and special occasions, this handy book...

This is a comprehensive guide to the many aspects of meads and honey wines available for the mead vintner, written by a leading authority on the topic. The author describes every aspect of the process from the varieties of honeys, their characteristics and qualities for the production of a superior...

This book covers the basics of making wine and how and what various types differ. The author shows you how to train your palate so that you are able judge the relative qualities of the wine you produce. It includes 55 recipes as well as instructions for racking, processing and maturing.

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It’s Friday at 4pm and you just got out of work. You feel your stress levels rising as you sit in commuters’ traffic. Your dinner guests are arriving at 6pm and your appetizers haven’t even made their way to your oven.  You sigh as an upsetting realization falls over you: There’s no...

An inevitable Guide, An unique concept With this tenth opus, the Guide VERON des Champagnes reaches maturity and perpetuates its original, sensory, oenological and human approach to better accompany you in the discovery of the Champagne area and champagnes. For the last 10 years, the Guide VERON des...