There is no better way to enjoy wine than at its source, and it is in Europe, the birthplace of wine, that you can find still the most beautiful vineyards in the world. Wine Country Europe is a dream tour of the Old World’s most celebrated regions, from the famed areas of France and Italy [...]

This completely revised edition of Michele Anna Jordans much praised cookbook features 200 recipes, touring information, and cooks sources, making it the definitive food lovers guide to Americas Provence. Sonoma County stretches from the fog-cooled coast of Northern California to the Mayacamas Mountains in the east; it hangs like a plump grape cluster west and [...]

Customer Review: To Change or Not to Change? The author quotes Barna to tell us that it is easier to start a new church than to attempt to resurrect and old one. This being the case, one wonders what might be the advantages of trying to pour new wine into old wineskins. The question itself [...]

The stories behind America’s finest wines, and the people and places that have made them so admired today.American wine—once an object of ridicule—now holds its own against the world’s best. But which wines are America’s finest? Who makes them? In The Great Wines of America, Paul Lukacs selects forty wines that have helped elevate American [...]

Customer Review: Good soucebook during trip Doesn’t cover all the wineries in the state in each region but a good companion for a winery-hopping trip in Washington given that there are few guides which offer this kind of specialty coverage. Good history and background information not available in the free publications found online for the [...]

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs–notably on French wine–as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others. The book reveals that Britain did [...]

Customer Review: Alsace or bust! Having never been to the Alsace region, I cannot personally verify the accuracy of this book’s information. However, I can vouch for its tantalizing pull compelling me to make the trip! This book is well organized and perfectly suited to the reader/traveller who is making a first aquaintance with the [...]

Hailed by the Wine Advocate as “perhaps the most gifted of all wine writers writing today,” Jancis Robinson has been voted the Wine Writer’s Wine Writer by her peers, dubbed “the undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wines” by France’s Madame Figaro, and won the 1995 Wine Literary Award of the Wine Appreciation Guild. Holding [...]

This purse-sized guidebook to Chicago’s BYOB (Bring-Your-Own-Bottle) restaurants has been newly updated and expanded to include BYOBs in the Chicago suburbs, restaurants with a liquor license that allow customers to BYOB for a corkage fee of $15 or less, and off-the-beaten path BYOB options such as local theaters. Anchored by comprehensive listings of BYOB restaurants [...]

As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshakle home of Joseph “Jackapple Joe” Cox in the tiny English town of Kirby Mockton.  Jay found solace in old Joe’s simple wisdom and folk charms, in his stories of far travel and wild adventure, and in his astonishing ability to make anything [...]