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Hard seltzer is a booming category in the world of lifestyle beverages and many craft brewers are lending their artisanal skills to this refreshing beverage. Simple to make and with a wide range of creative flavor additions, hard seltzer is a sparkling alternative for beer lovers looking to give their palate a different experience. Learn about the development of the current market and delve into the intricacies of sugars used in making seltzer. Understand the different regulations for this bever...

Winemaking is as old as civilization itself and wine has always been more than just a drink. For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a vast global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes. This fascinating and entertaining book takes a look at 100 bottles that mark a significant change in the evolution of wine and winemaking and captures the innovations and discoveries that h...

To help enhance your experience of wine tasting, you’ll find an informative 64-page book, foil cutter and 2 wine pourers in this attractive tin. For any leftover wine, a bottle stopper is also included to seal in the succulent flavour… until the next time around.

A tale of the travels of a wine merchant through France's wine regions where he spends several months each year tasting and buying, searching out great wines and talented wine makers. It describes the passions, beliefs, strengths and weaknesses of growers and negociants from both chateaux and farmhouses. Good and bad practices in wine-making are held up for inspection and the wines themselves are judged by their finesse, balance and personality.

Richard Mayson's award-winning Port and the Douro, first published in 1999, has become a classic over the last 20 years. In this comprehensively updated fourth edition he reminds us why Port is a drink that continues to fascinate wine-lovers and win new fans. The last 45 years, since the end of the dictatorship in 1974, have seen vast transformations in the Port world, from labour-saving technology in field and cellar, to advances in sales reach, especially since Portugal's formal entry into the...

A layman's guide to the generic wines of France - no flamboyant, obscure descriptions, just plain talking for those - like Floyd - who enjoy a glass of wine. The book accompanies 8 x 30 minute programmes for Channel 5, screening prime time from 9 November 1998* Each programme will be a mini regional wine tour, aided by Floyd's relaxed style. He'll meet the characters who reflect the lifestyle of the area, share a joke, a meal and a few bottles of the locally produced wine. He'll also b...

Australian wine is in trouble: just as a growing number of connoisseurs scoff at its taste and how it's made, hundreds of the country's small wineries are battling to survive. "Thin Skins" addresses the forces fighting Australian wine and harming its reputation. In witty, insightful writing, Campbell Mattison debunks the lies and showcases the people who are saving the industry by producing great wine. Anyone who enjoys drinking Australian wine, or cares about how it is farmed, will savor this e...

Kevin Zraly, author of one of the bestselling wine books of all time, "Windows on the World Complete Wine Course", has assembled the finest writers of the last 50 years to explain everything you need to know about wine. Each one addresses the subject he or she is most famous for, including decanting, tasting, grapes, matching food and wine, winemaking, sustainable vineyards, the various wine regions and terroir. Complete with regional vintage charts, grape charts, a glossary and vintage labels,...

Let's pop a cork and toast America's very best, most popular wine course, now in a revised edition that wine lovers will savour. Kevin Zraly's bestselling course now features a refreshed tasting section with flavour profiles; a 'Best of the Best' chapter with links to 20 smartphone tags; an audio pronunciation guide and updated labels, vintages, statistics and more invaluable information. As always, the book covers all the basics, and Zraly's region-by-region organisation points readers to the f...

To supplement the 30th anniversary edition of the Windows on the World Complete Wine Course comes this handy notebook. A comprehensive introduction covers wine basics, tasting, and buying; tips and vintage best bets; and answers to frequently asked questions, while the journal portion contains user-friendly tasting sheets with helpful prompts for recording your tasting notes on new and favorite wines.

From Marlborough to Manhattan, from Rapaura Road to the Ritz - the inspiring story of a quiet, unassuming woman who took her wines to the world. Jane Hunter had no romantic illusions about life among the vines. Growing up in South Australia, she always knew it was a business. When she met Ernie Hunter, a passionate, larger-than-life Irishman with a fledgling vineyard, they were the perfect team. Their complementary talents - his for dreaming large and her knowledge and experience - clearly belo...

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. Never has the wine world had so much to offer, and never have smart decisions about value, quality, grape, and season been so difficult to make. In The Wine Savant, Michael Steinberger tramps through the world of contemporary wine—from three-buck Chuck and bucket-list Borde...

As wine connoisseurs know, Argentine wine was once famously bad. The grapes were overwatered, harvested in brutal heat, fermented in enormous cement pools, aged in antiquated oak vats, and then watered down and adulterated. The final product was industrial plonk, drinkable only on ice. But in 2001, a Cabernet Sauvignon / Malbec blend beat Napa and Bordeaux’s finest in a blind taste test. Suddenly, Argentina emerged as a premier wine region with a champion varietal—what best-selling author Benjam...

From the director of Mondovino, a lively discussion of the expanding world of natural wine that considers the movement as a potential remedy for our current cultural crisis. What if, ten years from now, an artist--a filmmaker, for example--will have become as marginal and anachronistic as a blacksmith? What if the actors in the cultural world are on the brink of extinction, not about to disappear like prehistoric animals, but worse--submitting to the status quo? Absorbed by a marketplace that...

With a history spanning centuries, the Bordeaux region ranks as perhaps the premier wine-making area in the world. But as Michel Dovaz makes dear in his tour of les chateaux Bordeaux, the true story of this legendary wine begins eons ago, when the earth itself took shape and blessed one part of France with a magical soil.This guide presents the fascinating history of the many chateaux that have been operating continuously since the 17th century.The author also explains the many steps that go int...

Foreword by Master Cicerone Rich Higgins Discover a world of beer with this sensational handbook, packed with style guides, how-tos, and fascinating anecdotes about the origins and evolution of both well-known and esoteric beers—and ten unique "scratch and sniff" stickers devoted to aromas inherent in your favorite brews. To truly know a beer, it isn’t enough to taste it. You must breathe in its distinctive aroma—a specialty blend of hops, malt, water, and yeast that differentiate one beer sty...

Winner of Best Wine Book at the 2018 WCA Wine Communicator of the Year Awards Australia became known as a wine drinking nation in the 1970s, and our national love affair with wine continues. Yet Australian winegrowing is as old as European Australia. While the Hunter Valley is not the ideal place to grow grapes climatically, it's the only Australian wine region planted in the nineteenth century to continuously host vineyards. Hunter Wine profiles the people, history and technology that have sha...