Delectably brief essays that tell you only what you need to know to enjoy wine. There are wine encyclopedias, bibles, and guides—this is not one of those books. It doesn’t contain everything, just the really important stuff: the truly key wines, grapes, regions; tips about wine buying, aging, and storage; and useful explanations about tasting notes and whether …
The Food & Wine Wine Guide is like having a sommelier inyour back pocket.Smart, easy to use, and authoritative, it takes the guessworkout of buying a bottle by narrowing down the search to theproducers you can trust year in and year out-so there’s noneed to worry about the pros and cons of different vintages.Whether you’re looking for a …
Burgundy has a far stronger hold over the imagination and passions of wine lovers than the relatively modest number of bottles it produces. Over the centuries, hundreds of plots of vineyard land were demarcated, farmed, and individually named. The monks who did this work noticed that each vineyard had a slightly different character, and that this difference was …
Wine With Food: Pairing Notes and Recipes from the New York Times
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards — 2014 GOLD Winner for Cooking100 wines paired with more than 100 dishes, from two of the most respected experts in the business. Pairing wine and food can bring out the best qualities in each. But how do you hit upon the right combination? And is there just one? Do you fall …
For the thousands of people who know nothing about wine and want to rectify that swiftly and painlessly, Mark Oldman?the ?Naked Chef? of wine?is here to help with the kind of information readers can use right now: ? Australian Shiraz is the most instantly likable red under $15 ? Drink slightly sweet wine with spicy food ? Judge …
2011 Gourmand Wine Book Award winner – USAA wine book unlike any other, THE FOOD LOVER’S GUIDE TO WINE offers a fresh perspective via the single aspect of wine most compelling to food lovers: flavor.At the heart of this indispensable reference, formatted like the authors’ two previous bestsellers The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You …
Wines of France provides a comprehensive account of the vineyards and wines of France today. Offering unparalleled range, France has been the world’s most important wine-producing country for more than a hundred years, and is the source of the major grape varieties now grown all over the world. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps of each area, Wines …
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2016 is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine – in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 39th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive up-to-the minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers …
The wines of Tuscany were famous long before Leonardo da Vinci described them as bottled sunshine,” and they are at the forefront of the remarkable renaissance of Italian wine over the past 30 years. In this groundbreaking new book, Nicolas Belfrage shares his insider’s knowledge acquired as a specialist wine trader and writer. Mindful of the region’s fascinating …
From Napa and Sonoma to Santa Barbara and the South Coast, this definitive guide takes a lush, in-depth look at California winemaking, geography, and history. World Wine Guys Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen have gathered the most up-to-date information on the Golden State’s wine-growing regions, from Mendocino to San Diego, including detailed listings of outstanding producers and their …