Wine Spirits category: 1427 books
by Edward Randolph Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
This charming vintage text provides a brief history into the wines of Germany and Switzerland, and mentions the famous German vineyards Steinberg and Johannesburg, both of which remain of historical significance today. This would make a welcome addition to any wine enthusiast or historian’s library....
Oz Clarke Wine A-Z
The world's favourite wine writer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Britain's best-loved wine writer brings you more information, more recommendations, more facts, passion and opinion than any other comparable guide to wine. Organised in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the entries cover wines, producers, grapes, countries and wine regions from all over the world. For optimum...
Oz Clarke My Top Wines for 2013
delicious, good value wines to try tonight
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Oz Clarke, Britain's favourite wine writer and broadcaster, is absolutely in tune with what wine drinkers want today - flavour, individuality, excellent value for money and wines that are readily available. Oz has tasted thousands of wines and selected his 250 Best Wines for 2013. Oz shows you how...
Matt Kramer on Wine
A Matchless Collection of Columns, Essays, and Observations by America’s Most Original and Lucid Wine Writer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Oenophiles know: Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. Author of the classic book Making Sense of Wine, Kramer has written about the subject for 32 years-and his full-page column in Wine Spectator has appeared in every issue for the last 14 years. The time...
by Frederic T. Bioletti
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This book contains a classic guide to wine making, concentrating on growing wine grapes in California. With chapters on everything from selecting the grapes to maintaining the vines, this volume contains a wealth of practical information that will be of utility to the modern wine maker, especially...
Oregon Wine Country Stories
Decoding the Grape
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Just fifty years ago, Oregon had no wine industry of consequence. Today, the state teems with a wine culture that matches the fecundity of its land and the vital spirit of its people. The pioneers who dared that tradition into being, from astrophysicists to cherry farmers to harpsichord makers, stand...
by Marcelo Copello
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
HUGH JOHNSON said *Marcelo is right: wine is not really about bottles and barrels and grape varieties. They are just the technical background. Wine is about life: a glorious adjunct to life well-lived, with all its interests, all its passions. In this highly original book, Marcelo explores a host...
by Noel Shu
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Get ready for the world's first no-holds-barred journey through China's emerging wine culture. Following the tradition of great traveling sommeliers, Noel Shu guides us through the misty vineyards and crowded wineries of China. A delicate interplay unfolds: The PRC struggles with wine's infamous bourgeois...
by Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Buy, order, and enjoy the best of French wine with ease
You no longer have to be confused or intimidated by French wine. Sip and savor the best — and best value — Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais, and other delicious wines with this handy guide.
Open the book and find:
Pronunciation...
Cork Dork
A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK
“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably...
Tangled Vines
Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately...
Tasting Pleasure
Confessions of a Wine Lover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Even the French admit that Jancis Robinson is the "undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine" (Le Figaro). Internationally renowned for her work in both television and print, she is the editor of the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine and has won more than two dozen major awards around...
by Jean-Pierre Rossouw
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Tasting the Cape is a guide to the world-renowned Cape winelands, a travelling companion and more. Filled with insights from one of South Africa's most influential food and wine critics, the book offers the wine lover a new and accessible approach to South African wines by grouping the featured estates...
Red, White, and Drunk All Over
A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
In this bodice-ripping wine book that got widespread and excellent reviews in hardcover, multiple James Beard and IACP award-winning writer Natalie MacLean's journey through the international world of wine is the perfect companion for neophytes and wine aficionados alike.
Includes a new chapter with...