Beverages category: 3182 books
Côte d'Or
The wines and winemakers of the heart of Burgundy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Côte d'Or may be small in size but its influence is huge and its reputation alone can strike terror into the heart of even the most seasoned wine professionals. Côte d'Or is located in the very heart of Burgundy and stretches for a narrow 35-mile band. It’s on this terroir that some of the world’s...
Rosé
Understanding the pink wine revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
For the past 30 years we have had plenty of cheap, generic rosé, but now a new, serious wine category with complexity and challenges is beginning to appear. Elizabeth Gabay’s pioneering book, Rosé: Understanding the pink wine revolution is the first expert guide to the rosé market as it is today...
by Romana Van Lissum
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
In “How To Be a Beer Tub Girl and Make Big Tips” Romana Van Lissum shows you how to profit in the competitive business of beer tub sales and gain steady customers. By learning a few simple tricks, customers will gravitate towards you and you’ll easily convince them to buy whatever product you...
Liquid Memory
Why Wine Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Jonathan Nossiter, acclaimed filmmaker and former sommelier, had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's fingertip. For him, wine is "memory in its most liquid and dynamic form," as essential an expression of culture as cinema, books, baseball, painting, even...
by Nigel Wakefield
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
the reason that i have written two books on basically the same subject, pubs and restaurants.very few publicans will read a book on restaurants if they are buying a pub, very few restaurateurs will read a book on pubs if they are buying a restaurant. there is a lot of business commonality in both...
Champagne, Uncorked
The House of Krug and the Timeless Allure of the World's Most Celebrated Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Champagne is the epitome of effervescence, the centerpiece of celebration, and a symbol of good fortune. It has become an icon, a symbol of luxury, an emblem of the "good life," and few are not attracted to its sparkle.
Champagne, Uncorked is a journey into the heart of this beloved...
The Battle for Wine and Love
or How I Saved the World from Parkerization
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
An “entertaining and passionate” connoisseur tours the vineyards of Europe and California, arguing for an old-fashioned appreciation of authenticity (The New York Times).
The drastic effects that influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has had on the winemaking industry are best described...
by Gerald Asher
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those...
by Tony Aspler
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Tony Aspler says he is a wine evangelist, not a critic. Here he celebrates the pleasures of the grape and shares nuggets of wisdom. He offers tips for bluffing the best wine snobs, describes flying wine-serving Angels in Las Vegas, and can even use wine to fish. He recounts wine peccadillos of the...
Drink More Whiskey
Everything You Need to Know About Your New Favorite Drink!
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This smart guide to whiskey introduces a new generation of would-be connoisseurs to the hottest new-again spirit. And with upstart distillers reviving varieties like white dog (moonshine to prohibition-era folks), now is the best time to start learning about it. Drink More Whiskey is the reference...
by Douglas P. McCraw
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Napa Valley History and Development Gives You Instant Access To Oakville Wineries, Mount Veeder, Yountville Wine Region, Diamond Mountain Wineries and Tips For Planning A Tour.
Adventures with Old Vines
A Beginner's Guide to Being a Wine Connoisseur
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns...
The Makers of American Wine
A Record of Two Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry...
The City of Vines
A History of Wine in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! The latest title from the author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California’s world-renowned wine trade—a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. With incisive analysis and...