L'Epicurien With its homemade style of production, l'epicurien has carried out a cooking process that makes all its preparations slowly simmer in cauldrons. The deep and rich colors of fruits or vegetables, together with their delicate flavors, are deliciously revealed.

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Customer Review: Where to Go, What to See, Drink and Eat

If you are serious about Italian wine and/or food this is great book to have in your library.

The book does a nice job of explaining the wine varietals from particular regions of Italy. They also tell you which years are outstanding, very good, fairly good and unsatisfactory by wine. This book is very helpful for a trip to your favorite wine store.

If you are interested in wine tours while in Italy the book gives descriptions of wineries and which one offer tours and whether you need to make reservations or not. I also appreciated the wine store names, addresses and phone numbers that are listed by region. My husband appreciated the similar listings of golf courses. Their listings of antique fairs were also useful.

When I was booking our last vacation, I compared the hotel and restaurant suggestions with other guides and found that they were similar. It is always nice to have multiple sources for information.

I think that this book has something for everyone. If you never plan to visit Italy this book is very useful with its general information about Italian varietals and which years to purchase.

Customer Review: Excellent source of information about visiting Italy's wine regions

Tbis book gives all the information needed to actually visit Italian wine regions and the wineries themselves.

Wineries in Italy are generally not set up to receive tourists as in Napa. Prior arrangements usually need to be made just to visit, not to mention an actual tour and on-site tasting.

The book is organized by region with specific address and contact information for some (but not all) wineries. You might not be able to find the exact winery that produced an obscure bottle that you found at Trader Joe's but you can find one near it and probably just like it.

The book is a heavy softcover octavo with glossy pages and many pictures. There are also paid advertisements for wineries and vinotecas grouped with the editorial content. This is not a drawback but is helpful to know which places actually welcome visitors (some don't). The famous Sassicaia winery at Tenuta San Guido in Toscana for example, does not. I found that the binding is poor and pages have a tendency to fall out but I may have gotten a bad example. The book is somewhat heavy (about two pounds) but on balance I would say worth actually carrying with you on your trip to Italy.

The Touring Club of Italy is an organization similar to AAA which publishes maps and guidebooks in addition to offering other travel services. They have a useful website (in English and Italian) at touringclubdotcom.

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The landmark Huber Winery is recovering after a roof collapsed on one of its main event rooms following a heavy downpour Friday.

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This is a biography of Thomas Jefferson at leisure, enjoying two of his passions--wine and travel. Twelve of the sixteen chapters cover Jefferson's five years in France where he served as our minister and traveled through France, England, Germany, Italy and Holland. "Passions" was selected by Robert M. Parker, Jr. as "1995 Wine Book of the Year," and was the winner of the 1995 "Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year" competition. It is a marvelous account of America's first wine connoisseur and gourmet.

Customer Review: INSIGHT INTO THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LIKES

This was given as a gift, and I've received many thanks and raves from my sister and brother-in-law about the book. Both not only are history majors, they are in a group that studies wines. They plan to use this book as a subject at their next meeting.

Customer Review: America's First Wine Connoisseur

Wine was a lifelong passion for Jefferson, not just drinking it, but also planting vineyards at Montecello and in his Paris garden. The book details his experiences with wine and is enhanced by vintage prints.
Sixty-five pages at the back, document where the author found the information in the book (letters, books, documents). Also appended are measures for English, German, French and American wines at that time and the standardized guage for foreign wines (a pipe, a bull, a hogshead, and an ohm). The author lists the contents of Jefferson's travel box and clarifies what the items were used for. A glossary further helps the reader with unfamiliar words.
An interesting glimpse into the passion of an interesting man.

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L'Epicurien With its homemade style of production, l'epicurien has carried out a cooking process that makes all its preparations slowly simmer in cauldrons. The deep and rich colors of fruits or vegetables, together with their delicate flavors, are deliciously revealed.

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As the new director of winemaking at Wild Horse Winery and Vineyards in Templeton, Clay Brock follows some big names. After all, it was industry veteran Ken Volk who founded the winery back in 1982 and by 2003 grew it to 200,000 cases, and one of the most successful winery operations in the Paso Robles area. Volk sold the operation to liquor conglomerate Beam Brands five years ago, and his ...

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L'Epicurien With its homemade style of production, l'epicurien has carried out a cooking process that makes all its preparations slowly simmer in cauldrons. The deep and rich colors of fruits or vegetables, together with their delicate flavors, are deliciously revealed.

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Customer Review: California Wine Simplified.

By far, the most complete and easily read book of its type. It puts all of the recent changes in the California AVA's in perspective.

Customer Review: I've read it, I've used it, I drank it (well, not really)

I have already nipped into this book several times, especially before trips to nearby Santa Barbara wine country, and Kramer has never steered me wrong yet. Based on his recommendations, I experienced some great wines at Foley and Longoria - not really a GUIDE BOOK per se, no fancy graphics or easy to turn to index pages, but Kramer does have his own wine guide for this. I highly recommend for wino-folks living right here on the left coast.

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L'Epicurien With its homemade style of production, l'epicurien has carried out a cooking process that makes all its preparations slowly simmer in cauldrons. The deep and rich colors of fruits or vegetables, together with their delicate flavors, are deliciously revealed.

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FRONT ROYAL — Warren County planners tabled proposed changes to farm winery regulations Wednesday in order to study the matter further. The planning commission voted after a public hearing to table the changes and hold a work session on the issue.

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