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Ready to Master the Art of Winemaking? Uncover the Secrets to Crafting Premium Homemade Wine in Just 5 Simple Steps, Even If You're a Complete Novice.
Have you ever been captivated by the allure of winemaking but felt it was too complex or intimidating? Think again. With "Master Winemaking," you'll journey from being a complete beginner to a skilled vintner, all in the comfort of your home. This book is your ultimate guide to creating exceptional...
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The eagerly awaited third volume in the offbeat BC wine guide the Vancouver Sun calls "the perfect go-to."
In the third volume in the popular, offbeat Sipster's Pocket Guide series, wine expert and educator Luke Whittall presents his latest top 50 British Columbia wines under $50 (including many under $30) and along the way shares his thoughts on wine country and common misconceptions about certain grapes, and offers up tangents on everything from...
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Embark on a delightful journey into the enchanting world of wines with "Beginner's Bottle: A First-Time Guide to the World of Wine." This comprehensive guide is the perfect companion for anyone stepping into the vast and varied universe of wine, whether you're a curious novice or an aspiring connoisseur.Crafted with the beginner in mind, this book demystifies the complexities of wine, offering a friendly and accessible introduction to its many facets....
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It is extraordinary enough that one small area in north-eastern France, on the northern edge of Europe's wine-growing regions, should be capable of producing the finest sparkling wine in the world, one of the few worth discussing as a wine and not merely as a sparkling beverage. Yet champagne fascinates not only wine lovers, but also historians – social, economic, political – linguists, physiologists, physicists and chemists. The long-awaited...
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Wines from Cte-Rtie, Hermitage and Châteauneuf-du-Pape have made the Rhne Valley world famous. This may be a classic wine region, but as Matt Walls reveals in Wines of the Rhne that doesn't mean it is set in its ways. Change here is not only driven by innovations in winemaking and fashions in wine, it is also an essential response to a rapidly shifting climate, which has seen temperatures rise significantly over the last 40 years and extreme weather...
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Richard Mayson's award-winning Port and the Douro, first published in 1999, has become a classic over the last 20 years. In this comprehensively updated fourth edition he reminds us why Port is a drink that continues to fascinate wine-lovers and win new fans. The last 45 years, since the end of the dictatorship in 1974, have seen vast transformations in the Port world, from labour-saving technology in field and cellar, to advances in sales reach,...
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Wine: A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our lives is a wine history with a difference. Most histories of wine (like Hugh Johnson's The Story of Wine, Paul Lukacs's Inventing Wine, and Rod Phillips's own A Short History of Wine) are chronological narratives that begin with wine in the ancient world and run through to modern times. Wine has been seen typically as the subject of broader historical trends and events – how, for...
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This historic wine nation at the heart of Europe produces a diverse range of wines – Riesling above all, but also compelling Spätburgunder, aka Pinot Noir, and Silvaner, amongst others. Yet in the minds of many it is still associated with mass-produced sweetish plonk. But following a bruising twentieth century, German wine over the past thirty years has experienced a renaissance. In The wines of Germany, master of wine Anne Krebiehl takes us with...
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Rosé has seen a huge boom in sales over the last twenty-five years. Popular particularly with younger drinkers, its move into the spotlight seems to be part of a fashion for all things pink. The wines are often thought of as fresh and undemanding but while for many that is part of their appeal, here Master of Wine Elizabeth Gabay reveals the other side of rosé, discovering wines (some unavailable beyond the winery steps) that are every bit as complex...
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The Classic Wine Library is home to some of the world's most trusted expert writing on wine. This anthology gathers together selected essays from nearly 30 titles, published over the last 10 years. The chapters cover topics essential to understanding the wines of a range of regions, including their history, wine growing, winemaking and signature wines. The wide range of subjects include: • The beginnings of viticulture – explaining how people...
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Quotes by Coco Chanel, Pope John XXIII, Louis Pasteur, Amateurs, and more splendidly illustrated.
12) Biodynamic Wine
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Wines are generally defined in one of three ways: by their country or region of origin, by their colour (red, white, pink) or by their style (still, sparkling, fortified). Only recently have wines begun to be defined by how their grapes have been grown and the wine made, with a clear distinction between modern 'chemical' wine-growing on one hand, and the chemical-free organic or natural approach on the other. Now the world's most respected wine producers,...
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This short ebook comprises a select directory of Cte d'Or wine producers. Raymond Blake provides profiles of 49 of his favourite wine producers across the cte's two sub-regions, the Cte de Nuits and the Cte de Beaune. The experience of drinking a great Cte d'Or wine is one Blake believes is difficult to match – as are the prices paid for some parcels of land in this small but celebrated region. The detailed profiles explain each producer's vineyard...
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This short ebook comprises a guide to the most northerly wine regions of Spain: Galicia, Asturias and the Cantabrian coast. Sarah Jane Evans MW explores all the major subregions of this part of the country, from Rías Baixas and its attention-grabbing Albariños, to Ribeira Sacra, with crisp reds made from Mencía, and Txakoli in the Basque country, where distinctive and unique wines are made. Each section covers the history and geography of the region...
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Madeira is unique among wines. While heat and air cause most wines to deteriorate, they are instrumental in the ageing of Madeira, producing distinctive and enthralling wines. Decades (in some cases over a century) of ageing result in a wine that is virtually indestructible and which remains stable for many months, even years, once opened – a great advantage with an expensive old wine. More than thirty years ago Richard Mayson was seduced by the...
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Grape vines are not native to Australia, but this is a country with a wine history dating back almost 250 years, to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. The first commercial wine region, the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, was created a mere 40 years later, and by as early as the 1850s small amounts of wine were being exported to the UK. In the modern era, Australian wine became known for fortified wine styles modelled on Port and Sherry. These...
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Wine production in Greece dates back thousands of years. Excavations at prehistoric settlements have brought to light charred remains of Vitis Vinifera vines that provide the earliest indication of wine making in the Mediterranean, and remains of wine presses found in Crete suggest that wine was consumed on this island in the second millennium BC. Modern Greek wine, however, started seriously to enter the international wine scene only in the last...
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The wines of Chablis builds on Rosemary George's pioneering books on the region, The wines of Chablis and the Yonne and The wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois, and brings the story of Chablis completely up to date. It begins with the history of the region, from St. Martin de Tours in the fourth century to the twenty-first century, and goes on to consider the vineyards, the Crus, how the grapes are grown in this the most northerly wine growing...
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Wine has been made commercially in Canada since the mid-1800s but Canadian wine has only really begun to register with professionals and consumers outside the country in the last few decades, as quality has dramatically improved. Canadian wine is now being exported in meaningful volumes to the USA, Asia and Europe and since the beginning of this century the number of wineries has increased more than 250 per cent. In recent years wine regions have...
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The Veronese wine regions of Soave and Valpolicella – home to Amarone – are currently producing some of the world's most drinkable quality wines. But both regions still struggle with a reputation for cheap, poor-quality wines brought about through industrial-scale production during the economic depression following the Second World War. In Amarone and the fine wines of Verona, Italian wine specialist Michael Garner traces a shift in focus towards...
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