In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines. Each winemaker details their personal approach to the various steps required to convert grapes into wine. Natalie Berkowitz speaks to winemakers from different backgrounds who work in diverse wine-producing regions, including Chile, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and the United States. They talk about familiar and unfamiliar grape varietals, their struggles with local terroirs, and the vagaries of Mother Nature. Some represent small family wineries with limited production while others work for corporations producing hundreds of thousands of bottles. Each individual offers rare insight into how new technologies are revolutionizing historic winemaking practices. The interviews are supplemented with personal recipes and maps of winemaking regions. An aroma wheel captures the vast array of wine's complex flavors and aromas.

Product Description: One of the best memoirs of 2016 (Library Journal) and winner of the Northern California Book Festival Award! Fresh, charming, and irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of yet another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose—much to her surprise—in the U...read more

Product Description:  The purchase and consumption of wine, whether in hospitality environments or domestic settings, has huge anthropological significance underpinned by a discourse of wine appreciation. It can be seen as a multi-sensory and symbolically status-rich activity framed by historical, social, cultural and ethical discourses...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Whether you’re in a restaurant or a store, deciding on a bottle of wine doesn’t have to feel intimidating. Don’t worry about appellations, chateaux, vintages, and other complicated vocab. Wine expert Katherine Cole has developed simple strategies for navigating the wine world...read more

Discusses the history of wine, grape varieties, winemaking techniques, and vintages.

Product Description: Over the years, we found ourselves going from college-age gals drinking Boones Farm to women with jobs splurging on labels we thought were oh-so-classy, such as Kendall Jackson.  Swiftly, our knowledge grew even more and we matured into women who attended dinner parties instead of just clubs – or even better: wine bars...read more

Product Description: In this lighthearted guided journal, Daily Mail wine columnist Helen McGinn simplifies wine education for amateur wine drinkers who want to know more about wine and are looking for a fun, easy way to learn. Fifty-two weeks of intuitive fill-ins become a self-taught course in wine-tasting, gleaned from evaluating one new wine each week, combined with McGinn's streamlined explanations of key wine knowhow (what distinguishes common wine styles, how to read wine labels, what wine terminology really means, and more)...read more

Product Description: What do you taste in wine? Why do you taste it? Consumers have changed the way they think and learn about wine, approaching the subject by going back to its origins: the grape. This expanded and updated edition of Oz Clarke's highly acclaimed award-winning guide explores the world's greatest grapes and the wines they make...read more

Tells how to select, plant, cultivate, train, prune, protect and harvest grapes, and explains each step in making wine

Product Description: “Entertaining and edifying. . . . [Steinberger] deftly shows how any and all of us can be savvier about wine.”―Bill Ward, Minneapolis Star Tribune Today’s dynamic wine culture calls for a different kind of wine book. The Wine Savant is just that: punchy, polemical, and brimming with insights to educate and entertain beginning wine drinkers and seasoned oenophiles alike...read more

Product Description: Grapevine is a crop of major economical interest, and wine represents a multicultural heritage which has been growing since several milleniums. Yet, modern viticulture must face several challenges. Global climate has increased berry sugar content (and alcohol in the wine) whereas phenolic and aromatic ripeness are not always achieved...read more

Product Description: Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2015 is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 38th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive up-to-the minute annual guide...read more