Wine Buying Guide

Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World

Millions have logged onto Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV―watching him boldly and unconventionally rate hundreds of wines. Viewers are attracted to his youthful energy, unique voice, and often outrageous descriptions. Now, in Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines, Vaynerchuk reveals his first ranked list of the most exciting and tantalizing spirits he has sampled while traveling the globe. …

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How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto

Eric Asimov, the acclaimed chief wine critic for the New York Times, has written a beautiful and thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto, How to Love Wine.With charm, wit, and intelligence, Asimov tells how he went from writing beer reviews for his high school newspaper on Long Island to the most coveted job in the industry. He evaluates the …

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The Exporter’s Handbook to the US Wine Market

Attempting to export wine to the U.S. has long been fraught with difficulty, especially for the smaller producers. The U.S. wine industry, complicated by confusing regulations and intense internal brand competition, is also the land of opportunity and home to an adventurous and egalitarian wine consuming population. But without an understanding of how to effectively enter this complex …

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Behind the Bottle: The Rise of Wine on Long Island

Profiling owners, winemakers, and personalities from around the country and the world, Behind the Bottle is a fun and intriguing look at the people who have made Long Island into one of the hottest wine regions in the country.Long Island has been a leader in winemaking since 1975. In the last forty years, Long Island’s rise has been …

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Oz Clarke Wine A-Z

In Oz Clarke Wine A-Z, Britain’s best-loved wine writer brings you more recommendations, more facts, and more opinion than any other comparable guide to wine. Well organized and easy to use, the more than 1,600 entries cover wines, producers, grapes, and wine regions from all over the world. Along with the handy country-by-country index, another index covers over …

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Educating Peter

Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than “Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?” — great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina — is “What is the best …

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True Taste: The Seven Essential Wine Words

There’s a world of words to describe wine, but only seven you need to know to understand it.Wine is one of the most written about beverages in our history, with dictionaries dedicated solely to the words and phrases used to describe it in the ever-expanding world of self-professed wine connoisseurs. Now, the “great demystifier of wine” (Booklist), highly …

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Essential Guide to Bordeaux Wines

Wine lovers appreciate not just the taste of wine and the pleasure it gives them, they also enjoy the lifestyle and culture associated with it and the values it conveys. Both a handbook and an illustrated history, this new guide offers all readers—from novice to professional—the keys to fully appreciating Bordeaux wines and their rich culture. Explore the …

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The Ultimate Student Cookbook: Cheap, Fun, Easy, Tasty Food

THE ULTIMATE STUDENT COOKBOOK is the cooking bible for all students; something every student needs at university and every parent wants their teenagers to have with them as they embark on life away from home. The book is brought to you by studentbeans.com, the number one leading student website, and focuses on eating and living well as easily …

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Hidden Napa Valley, Revised and Expanded Edition

Here is a unique portrait of California’s beloved wine country. From its stunning landscape to its culture and gourmet sophistication, these striking images of the valley, captured throughout the seasons, illustrate the unique treasures of California’s prized vineyards. Chronicled in color photographs by gifted local photographer Wes Walker, this portrait of California’s promised land comes alive in history, …

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