Archive for September, 2009

Sep 30 2009

Wine Making Journal, for the homemade wine maker

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The Wine Making Journal is an easy to use journal to record all of your homemade wine batches. The journal has sections for recording the primary and secondary fermentation, bottling, and tasting of each batch. There is also a space to attach your label for posterity. The Wine Making Journal has handy reference charts included [...]

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Sep 30 2009

Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine : 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style

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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 [...]

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Sep 29 2009

Pairing Wine With Asian Food

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Pairing Wine with Asian Food is a useful guide exploring the principles behind matching Asian food with the right wine. Oenologist Edwin Soon explores problem ingredients in the Asian kitchen and details wine and food combinations to avoid as well as “marriages made in heaven.” The major cuisines of Asia are covered, highlighting the most [...]

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Sep 28 2009

The Wines of Greece (Classic Wine Library)

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Each of Greece’s wine-producing regions, vineyards, grape varieties, wines, and wineries are explored by the country’s very first Master of Wine, complete with in-depth producer profiles and maps for every one. There is a full historical account of the Greek wine industry, its wine laws, and winemaking developments, plus a discussion on the future of [...]

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Sep 27 2009

Temecula Wine Country: The Undiscovered Jewel Of Southern California

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“Temecula Wine Country – The Undiscovered Jewel Of Southern California” leads readers through the various regions of Temecula Wine Country all the while revealing the wineries, vineyards, history, wines, and lives of the winemakers through descriptive writing and vivid photographs. “Temecula Wine Country” is designed to share with readers in the discovery of Temecula Wine [...]

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Sep 26 2009

Wine for Women: A Guide to Buying, Pairing, and Sharing Wine

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“Wine is not to fear or revere, but to enjoy,” says Leslie Sbrocco, wine expert. And that’s exactly what she shows you how to do in Wine for Women, the first wine book written exclusively for women — the majority of wine consumers. In Wine for Women, Leslie Sbrocco scraps the stuffy wine-speak and deals [...]

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Sep 25 2009

Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

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Ernest Dowson, a major poet of the Victorian Decadent period, alcoholic, and severe depressive, died in 1900 at 32. He created much of his best work while suffering from tuberculosis. The most tragic of his generation, his life is a story of doomed love and adversity. Adams explores how the poet’s strange delights and sexual [...]

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Sep 24 2009

The Sipping Point: A Crash Course in Wine

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Do you know how to:* Get a broken cork out of the bottle?* Remove that red wine stain from your white sofa* Open a champagne bottle without putting someone s eye out* Read a wine list as long as the New York city phonebook?You may not, but Laurie Forster does. In The Sipping Point she [...]

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Sep 23 2009

Moon Handbooks Northern California Wine Country (Moon Handbooks)

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Between the foggy coastal mountains of Santa Cruz and the sun-drenched valleys and hot, windy hills of Sonoma lies Northern California’s wine country. Here you’ll find mountain biking and skydiving; historic Spanish missions and shopping; excellent food, fine wine, and opportunities to be pampered. Author and wine enthusiast Philip Goldsmith helps you have a truly [...]

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Sep 22 2009

The Sideways Guide to Wine and Life [64-page Squarebound Paperback Edition]

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A lighthearted companion to the best-reviewed film of the year—a pocket-sized illustrated guide to the locations and wines featured in Sideways including maps, winery listings, tips for drinking wine, and OscarĀ®-winning dialogue. Yesterday, you didn’t know Pinot Noir from film noir.Now, after seeing the marvelous movie Sideways, you are living the life uncorked, and this [...]

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