The 24-Hour Wine Expert
Many wine drinkers wish they knew more without having to understand every nuance or go to expensive wine tastings. In her new book, the leading international authority on wine, Jancis Robinson, grants the wishes of would-be wine experts the world over. With the 24-hour wine expert, anyone can learn all that is really important about wine in a single day.
The 24-Hour Wine Expert - Robinson’s proposition is irresistible: In just 24 hours, anyone can become a wine expert.
More information about Abrams Image
The Oxford Companion to Wine Oxford Companions
Over 60 per cent of all entries have been revised; and useful lists and statistics are appended, as well as vineyard area, including a unique list of the world's controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, wine productionand consumption by country. Illustrated with almost 30 updated maps of every important wine region in the world, many useful charts and diagrams, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, cultural, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts—notably historical, and 16 stunning colour photographs, and scientific—and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.
Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, The Oxford Companion to Winepresents almost 4, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, 000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, growers, from its origins to the present day.
The Oxford Companion to Wine Oxford Companions - . More than 180 esteemed contributors including 58 new to this edition range frominternationally renowned academics to some of the most famous wine writers and wine specialists in the world. Now exhaustively updated, this fourth edition incorporates the very latest international research to present 300 new entries on topics ranging from additives and wine apps to WSET and Zelen.
More information about OUP Oxford
Similar products
The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know
And the news is good! For example: A wine’s price rarely reflects its quality. In the new wine rules, acclaimed wine writer Jon Bonné explains everything you need to know in simple, beautifully illustrated, easy-to-digest tidbits. You can drink rosé any time of year.
More information about Ten Speed Press
Similar products
Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide
It's the ultimate gift for any wine lover. Wine folly: magnum edition includes: * more than 100 grapes and wines color-coded by style so you can easily find new wines you'll love; * a wine region explorer with detailed maps of the top wine regions, Germany, as well as up-and-coming areas such as Greece and Hungary; * wine labeling and classification 101 for wine countries such as France, Spain, Italy, and Austria; * an expanded food and wine pairing section; * a primer on acidity and tannin--so you can taste wine like a pro; * more essential tips to help you cut through the complexity of the wine world and become an expert.
Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide - Wine folly: magnum edition is the must-have book for the millions of fans of WineFolly. Com and for any budding oenophile who wants to boost his or her wine knowledge in a practical and fun way.
More information about Avery
Similar products
The Wine Bible
Or, describing a Riesling: “A laser beam. A sheet of ice. Announcing the completely revised and updated edition of the wine bible, the perennial bestselling wine book praised as “The most informative and entertaining book I’ve ever seen on the subject” Danny Meyer, “Astounding” Thomas Keller, “A guide that has all the answers” Bobby Flay, and “A magnificent masterpiece of wine writing” Kevin Zraly.
The Wine Bible - Karen macneil’s information comes directly through primary research; for this second edition she has tasted more than 10, 000 wines and visited dozens of wine regions around the world. Like a lively course from an expert teacher, tips, maps, The Wine Bible grounds the reader deeply in the fundamentals while layering on informative asides, photos all new for this edition, glossaries, definitions, amusing anecdotes, labels, and recommended bottles.
More information about Workman Publishing Company
Similar products
Wine: A No-Snob Guide: Drink Outside the Box
Forget intimidating wine speak. Journey the globe, touring the wine regions of California to Europe to South America and discover your personal palate along the way. Light, fun, never dry, this go-to guide helps you confidently explore the wine world. This entertaining wine guide offers:the history and origin of winetypes of grapes & wine categoriesTasting & food pairing tipsBuying & storing basicsWhether you're looking to learn the basics, impress your boss, or redeem yourself after referring to sommelier as an African country, Wine: A No-Snob Guide will have you swirling and sipping like a pro.
More information about Rockridge Press
Similar products
Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised, Updated & Expanded Edition
It also includes the latest vintages to savor, comprehensive notes on food pairings, and answers to frequently asked questions. From the renowned reds of bordeaux and california to the trail-blazing whites of Washington State and New Zealand, this essential volume features maps of each region, best value bottles for each country, lush photographs, hundreds of labels to help you find the right wines, a wealth of infographics, and guided tastings.
Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised, Updated & Expanded Edition - The windows on the world complete Wine Course gives you all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the best wines for you. When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best. Wall street journal with more than three million copies sold, this perennial bestseller by James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kevin Zraly is the definitive guide to understanding and appreciating wine.
More information about Sterling Epicure
Similar products
Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition
Here, the finish, the oak, the body, kermit lynch assures a whole new generation of readers—as well as his loyal fans—that discussions about wine need not focus so stringently on "the pH, " but rather on the "gaiety" of the way "the tart fruit perfumes the palate and the brain. ". When adventures on the wine route was first published, true, Victor Hazan said, "In Kermit Lynch's small, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read.
Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition - A quarter century later, this remarkable journey of wine, travel, and taste remains an essential volume for wine lovers. Lynch draws vivid portraits of vintners—from inebriated négociants to a man who oversees a vineyard that has been in his family for five hundred years—and memorably evokes the countryside at every turn.
Yet his guiding philosophy is exquisitely simple.
More information about Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Similar products
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine
The best introductory book on wine to come along in years” The Washington Post from the creators of the award-winning winefolly. Com red or white? cabernet or merlot? light or bold? What to pair with food? Drinking great wine isn’t hard, but finding great wine does require a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine - . A wine-region section with detailed maps. Packed with information and encouragement, Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will empower your decision-making with practical knowledge and give you confidence at the table. Methods for tasting wine and identifying flavors. Wine folly: the essential guide to Wine will help you make sense of it all in a unique infographic wine book.
More information about Avery
Similar products
Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours
Combining jancis robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, expertise, and attention to detail plus Dr. Here is a complete, alphabetically presented profile of all grape varieties of relevance to the wine lover, charting the relationships between them and including unique and astounding family trees, their characteristics in the vineyard, and—most important—what the wines made from them taste like.
Wine Grapes: A Complete Guide to 1,368 Vine Varieties, Including Their Origins and Flavours - Presented in a stunning design with eight-page gatefolds that reveal the family trees, and a rich variety of full-color illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's century-old classic ampelography, the text will deepen readers' understanding of grapes and wine with every page. Vouillamoz's unique level of scholarship, Wine Grapes offers essential and original information in greater depth and breadth than has ever been available before.
This is a book for wine students, wine experts, and wine lovers everywhere.
More information about Ecco
Similar products
The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
But there are no books that describe the intricacies of the way wines from various subregions, soils, and appellations should taste. Paying attention to styles, but in the modern way--appellation by appellation, winemakers, and the most cutting-edge of trends, this book explains how to understand the wines of the world not in the classical way, soil by soil, soils, technique by technique--making it an essential reference and instant classic.
The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe - Now, you can learn about the differences between wines from the 7 grand crus and 40 premier crus of Chablis, Champagne, or the terroirs in Barolo, for the first time ever, and Bordeaux. There are books that describe the geography of wine regions. This will be the go-to guide for aspiring sommeliers, wine aficionados who want to improve their blind tasting skills, and amateur enthusiasts looking for a straightforward and visceral way to understand and describe wine.
In this seminal addition to the wine canon, noted experts Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay share everything they've learned in their decades of tasting wine.
More information about Ten Speed Press
Similar products
