Rheingold - The German Wine Renaissance
ISBN: 9781845490799 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative new book, Owen Bird writes frankly and with authority on the German wine industry; how it got into trouble and how it can rescue itself. He gives considerable insight into the pre-eminence of Riesling as driving the future of the industry. An in-depth analysis of German wine laws, labelling, competition from the New World and the advent of "flying winemaking" are all presented from a winemaking point of view. The steps taken by the German Wine Institute and the Verband Deutscher Pradikatsweinguter (VDP) to renew the image of German wine are compared and contrasted. For the...
In this provocative new book, Owen Bird writes frankly and with authority on the German wine industry; how it got into trouble and how it can rescue i...
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128,11 zł |
How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar
ISBN: 9781891267000 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This popular classic, which is based on the author s personal experiences of building a wine cellar in his home and collecting wines for fun and investment, is now completely updated for the modern wine collector. All of the essential construction specifications to maintain the ideal temperature and humidity conditions for long-term storage of wine are provided for the home craftsman or professional contractor. Insulation, refrigeration, and passive systems are detailed and the construction of racks and storage bins is also explained with helpful illustrations. A practical guide to selecting,...
This popular classic, which is based on the author s personal experiences of building a wine cellar in his home and collecting wines for fun and inves...
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131,13 zł |
Wine, Communism & Volcanoes: A Story of Chilean Wine
ISBN: 9781934074039 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drive beyond the dusty provincial towns and the Chilean landscape is carpeted with 1?4 million acres of grapes that ripen perfectly in bright sunlight, warm days, and cool evenings. Labor, land, and grape prices are low, so Chilean wineries can make high quality wines at a fraction of the cost of those in California, Australia or Europe. Walker Elliott Rowe weaves a narrative of the Chilean people and culture, introducing the reader to many characters both inside and outside the wine business. The towering Andes Mountains are not the only item looming over the Chilean horizon-this progressive...
Drive beyond the dusty provincial towns and the Chilean landscape is carpeted with 1?4 million acres of grapes that ripen perfectly in bright sunlight...
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77,93 zł |
Wandering Through Virginia's Vineyards
ISBN: 9781934074046 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a gold rush underway in Virginia. But the treasure under pursuit is not a precious metal. Rather, it is the grape. From Leesburg in the north down to Roanoke in the south, dot-com millionaires, celebrities, retired civil servants, and apple farmers are turning fallow pastures and orchards into row after row of European fine wine grapes.
There is a gold rush underway in Virginia. But the treasure under pursuit is not a precious metal. Rather, it is the grape. From Leesburg in the north...
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77,93 zł |
Techniques in Home Winemaking: The Comprehensive Guide to Making Chateau-Style Wines
ISBN: 9781550652369 / Angielski / Miękka / 511 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From crushing grapes to bottling wine, this essential handbook enables the home winemaker to make informed decisions about ingredients, equipment, and the winemaking process. Precise step-by-step instructions lead both novice and advanced winemakers through all of the important procedures, including selecting and working with new equipment, determining the best material for specific styles, analyzing the product, monitoring acidity levels, and common troubleshooting problems. Using accessible charts and tables to offer detailed instructions for making Pinot noir, port, and sparkling wines,...
From crushing grapes to bottling wine, this essential handbook enables the home winemaker to make informed decisions about ingredients, equipment, and...
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96,11 zł |
Educating Peter
ISBN: 9780743286787 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than "Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?" -- great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina -- is "What is the best way to learn about wine?" After many years of fielding these questions, Lettie was determined to debunk the myth that learning about wine is hard. She decided to find just one wine idiot and teach him a few fundamentals -- how to order off a restaurant wine...
Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than "C...
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78,77 zł |
Wines & Wineries of California's Central Coast: A Complete Guide from Monterey to Santa Barbara
ISBN: 9780520244375 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In comparative tastings, wines from California's Central Coast rival those from such renowned regions as Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Napa, yet they also offer superb value. This is the first comprehensive guide to one of the world's most dynamic and beautiful wine regions-and the setting for the award-winning movie Sideways. An excellent, one-stop resource for touring and tasting at convenient wineries located from Monterey to Santa Barbara, the guide is organized into county-by-county alphabetical listings for this up-and-coming region.
Wines and Wineries of California's... In comparative tastings, wines from California's Central Coast rival those from such renowned regions as Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Napa, yet they also o...
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166,01 zł |
Composition of American Wines
ISBN: 9781429010337 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Williard Bigelow, a chemist with the United States Government, provides a scientific analysis of the composition of wines produced in the United States up to 1900 in an attempt to ensure future uniformity of wines for sale in the world-wide marketplace.
Williard Bigelow, a chemist with the United States Government, provides a scientific analysis of the composition of wines produced in the United State...
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45,75 zł |
Manufacture of Liquors, Wines & Cordials: Also the Manufacture of Effervescing Beverages and Syrups, Vinegar, and Bitters. Prepared and Arranged Expre
ISBN: 9781429010399 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While this 1863 work was originally intended as a comprehensive reference for those in the beverage trade, modern readers will find the recipes both delicious and easy to prepare in their own kitchens.
While this 1863 work was originally intended as a comprehensive reference for those in the beverage trade, modern readers will find the recipes both d...
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91,72 zł |
Wine Quality: Tasting and Selection
ISBN: 9781405113663 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER OF A GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD 2009
BEST WINE EDUCATION BOOK (THE BEST IN THE WORLD) -I really enjoyed this book ... A constant feature of this book is how well Keith balances his mastery of the technicalities with a certain 'common touch', the ability to explain sometimes complex issues in easy-to-understand terms.- -... an ideal book to accompany a WSET course.- Throughout the eight thousand years of vinous history wines have been tasted and their... WINNER OF A GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD 2009
BEST WINE EDUCATION BOOK (THE BEST IN THE WORLD) -I really enjoyed this book ..... |
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425,81 zł |
Viticulture and Brewing in the Ancient
ISBN: 9781429010429 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Lutz's 1922 work presents "the history of viticulture and brewing in the Ancient Near East from the beginning of historic time down to the wine-prohibition of Muhammed."
Henry Lutz's 1922 work presents "the history of viticulture and brewing in the Ancient Near East from the beginning of historic time down to the wine-...
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64,13 zł |
Valencia Land of Wine
ISBN: 9781901990041 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author, Joan C. Martin, is a prize-winning wine writer and winemaker. This collection consists of articles, here translated into English, that originally appeared in Spain's "El Pais" newspaper, and is the best introduction available not only to the wines of the Comunidad Valenciana, but also to the people who make them and the landscape in which they are made. Almost uniquely for a wine writer, Joan C. Martin is also a winemaker, who as director of some of Valencia's leading wineries has been at the forefront of the transformation in the quality of the wines of the three Denominaciones...
The author, Joan C. Martin, is a prize-winning wine writer and winemaker. This collection consists of articles, here translated into English, that ori...
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87,35 zł |
Art of Blending and Compounding: Showing How All the Favorite Brands and Various Grades of Whiskeys, Brandies, Wines, &etc. Are Prepared by Dealers Ad
ISBN: 9781429010542 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Fleischman's 1885 work gives readers an understanding of how wines and spirits are made and provides recipes so that readers can create these beverages in their own homes.
Joseph Fleischman's 1885 work gives readers an understanding of how wines and spirits are made and provides recipes so that readers can create these b...
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45,75 zł |
Culture of the Grape: And Wine-Making
ISBN: 9781429010320 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Buchanan and Nicholas Longworth's 1855 work describes the growing and processing of grapes for the purposes of making wine.
Robert Buchanan and Nicholas Longworth's 1855 work describes the growing and processing of grapes for the purposes of making wine.
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54,94 zł |
Elementary Treatise on American Grape Cu: On American Grape Culture and Wine Making
ISBN: 9781429010405 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,10 zł |
Kindred Spirits 2
ISBN: 9780980123838 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2400 Reviews of Whiskey, Brandy, Vodka, Tequila, Rum, Gin, and Liqueurs from F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal.
2400 Reviews of Whiskey, Brandy, Vodka, Tequila, Rum, Gin, and Liqueurs from F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal.
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312,80 zł |
Pacific Pinot Noir: A Comprehensive Winery Guide for Consumers and Connoisseurs
ISBN: 9780520253179 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring more than two hundred in-depth winery profiles, this definitive guide is the best single source of information on world-renowned pinot noirs from California and Oregon. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of a grape variety considered by many to produce the ultimate food wine, John Winthrop Haeger offers this expanded, updated companion volume to his award-winning North American Pinot Noir. Here, with three times the number of winery profiles, he focuses exclusively on what he calls the Pacific Pinot Zone, stretching from the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon to Santa...
Featuring more than two hundred in-depth winery profiles, this definitive guide is the best single source of information on world-renowned pinot noirs...
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183,67 zł |
The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge
ISBN: 9780767926928 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snob s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z. A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snob s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z. |
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74,43 zł |
The Virgin Wine Guide
ISBN: 9780753509135 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Buy Better Wine for Your Money. An accessible guide to wine targeted at 20-40 year-olds dealing with the complicated matter of wine in an easy to understand, fun and funky fashion. Each chapter is punctuated with a series of top tips, shortcuts and bluffing-it advice spots, making it not only an easy read but a book that you can dip in and out of.
How to Buy Better Wine for Your Money. An accessible guide to wine targeted at 20-40 year-olds dealing with the complicated matter of wine in an easy ...
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88,48 zł |
A Hedonist in the Cellar : Adventures in Wine
ISBN: 9780747591320 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the author's own debauched forty-eighth birthday party, the 'high-testosterone grape' that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, 'the wild green fairy', and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same time McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine...
Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdo...
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82,95 zł |