During the thirty-five years wine critic and writer Paul Gregutt has lived in the state of Washington, its wine industry has ballooned from a mere half dozen wineries to nearly five hundred. Washington Wines and Wineries offers a comprehensive, critical, and accessible account of the nation’s second largest wine-producing region. Gregutt, who has covered Washington [...]

Customer Review: Excellent book for those entering the wine industry This book won’t replace going to UC Davis, but it is a good start if you are looking to break into professional winemaking. It concisely touches on all of the important aspects of making wine with commercial equipment. It is well written and straight forward [...]

Customer Review: Good Basic Understanding Reading this book I acquired a basic understanding of how to order and buy wine. It’s based on knowing the difference between the grapes and focuses on taste. The book also has a ton of great recipes that are paired with different wines. The author has an easy style that [...]

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By far France’s largest fine-wine region, Bordeaux is also arguably its greatest, and perhaps the greatest in the world. Grands Vins is the most comprehensive survey of these wines ever published. Following an introduction detailing the history, the geography, the grape varieties, and other regional wine-making idiosyncrasies, Clive Coates–who is reputed to know more about [...]

This luxury box-set includes two of the world’s most successful and bestselling wine books by the two foremost wine writers on the subject. It’s a truly incomparable set, and a unique and essential addition to every wine-lover’s, historian’s, or literary follower’s library. The World Atlas of Wine is an indispensable book for the novice and [...]

From the Touring Club of Italy, the country’s foremost publisher of authoritative maps and guidebooks for over a century, this wine guide is ideal for travelers planning to visit vineyards and wishing to know all about the wines of Italy. The wines of Italy are a delightful part of any visit to the Bel Paese, [...]

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Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America’s oldest industry, the cod fishery. The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for wine served the fishery by catering to [...]

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