Wine Pocket Bible (Pocket Bibles)

Wine Pocket Bible (Pocket Bibles) Review

Love wine, but only know so much? Looking for some guidance on the perfect red? Want to break away from choosing the same old favourites? Are you keen to learn about wine varieties and which will suit the right cuisine? The Wine Pocket Bible is filed with answers to everything that matters in the world of wine, including: * Which wines are best for meat and fish dishes? * How do I interpret labels when buying wine? * Which is the correct way to taste & describe wine? * How do I make a classic champagne cocktail? * How do I go about investing in and storing wine? This indispensible little guide will tell you what you need to know when you need to know it. The Wine Pocket Bible is a classic edition full of essential wine tips and fascinating facts. This beautiful hardback edition has both dust-cover and gold embossing on the spine making it the perfect gift for any wine lover at Christmas.

Lonely Planet Napa & Sonoma Encounter

Lonely Planet Napa & Sonoma Encounter Review

What Will Your Wine Country Encounter Be?

Detecting a hint of chocolate in your Cabernet while admiring abstract paintings
Lingering over a meal of oysters, endive watercress salad, duck-fat fries and farm-to-table treats
Sliding down into warm volcanic mud before your massage
Canoeing past sunning turtles and herons on the lazy Russian River
Passing around Sonoma goat cheese and a plummy Rose at a pond-side picnic
Pedaling past creeks, sprawling vineyards and historic homes in Dry Creek Valley

Discover Twice the Region in Half the Time

Full-color pull-out map includes all listed wineries
Our expert author points you to the Wine Country's best - and most sustainable - establishments
Unique itineraries and highlights help you make the most of a short trip
Local connoisseurs reveal their Wine Country favorites: from a chef de cuisine on using local ingredients to a winemaker's take on biodynamic Pinots

Kevin Zraly's Complete Wine Course

Kevin Zraly's Complete Wine Course Review

Let's pop a cork and toast America's very best, most popular wine course--now in a revised edition with new material that wine lovers will savor.

 

This is Kevin's 40th year in the wine business, and to celebrate, he has updated all the material on vineyards in Austria, Hungary, Greece, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina. Plus, he completely refreshed the tasting section with flavor profiles that also discuss winemaking; created a new Best of the Best chapter; and included more than 20 smart phone tags throughout the book that link to videos of Kevin talking about wine. As always, the book offers Wine Basics, Tasting Wine, Matching Wine and Food, Frequently Asked Questions About Wine, and a Selected Glossary. Zraly goes region-by-region, with the wines organized from simple to complex--allowing readers who follow Kevin's order to experience the finest wines and a wide diversity of tastes, styles, regions, and countries.

 

More than ever, this is clearly the wine guide against which all others are judged.

 

 

San Francisco Travel Guide (Lonely Planet)

San Francisco Travel Guide (Lonely Planet) Review

“Sunny days suit most cities just fine, but San Francisco saves its most dramatic views of the Golden Gate Bridge for fog. When it swirls around the towers, romantics and photographers rejoice.” – Alison Bing, Lonely Planet Writer

>Our Promise

You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is.

Inside This Book…

174 hand-picked restaurants
140 shops & one pirate supply store
43 hills to explore, by foot or cable car
29 museums (art, history, for kids)
24 Napa & Sonoma wineries
Comprehensive map section
Feature coverage of top sights
Range of planning tools
In-depth background on the city’s cuisine and cocktails

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition: The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition: The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions Review

Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker's stated goal: "To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision."

Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information.

The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls "the most powerful critic of any kind."

Oz Clarke's Grapes and Wines: The definitive guide to the world's great grapes and the wines they make

Oz Clarke's Grapes and Wines: The definitive guide to the world's great grapes and the wines they make Review

First published in hardcover as Oz Clarke’s Encyclopedia of Grapes, Oz Clarke’s Grapes and Wines is newly revised and updated to provide the most current information on an even wider array of grapes. Oz covers chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, and fifteen other "classic" grapes in depth, and includes features on tradition and innovation, methods used in the vineyard and the winery, and different wine styles around the world. He also provides vivid descriptions of more than three hundred grape varieties organized in his renowned A-to-Z format, as well as a glossary of technical terms and a wine decoder that lists which grapes go into which wines.

This authoritative volume by one of the world’s great wine writers is all you need to distinguish among grape varieties— the wines they create and the flavors they contribute—and to make an informed choice on selecting the most satisfying wines.

Drinking Japan: A Guide to Japan's Best Drinks and Drinking Establishments (No)

Drinking Japan: A Guide to Japan's Best Drinks and Drinking Establishments (No) Review

Japan is home to some of the world's most interesting alcoholic beverages and to a phenomenally energetic bar scene. Drinking Japan is the first wide-ranging survey in English of the country's unique alcohol culture, with detailed coverage not only of the well-known rice brew sake but of much less explored traditions like shochu, awamori, beer, wine, and Japanese whisky. The book is a practical guide, offering richly illustrated reviews of 122 drinking establishments in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Hiroshima, Okinawa and further afield. The reviews are written with the newly arrived visitor to Japan in mind, with price guides, language help, advice on food and drink choices, and maps and directions to get you to the bars.  Drinking Japan offers detailed background on more than 150 of Japan's best drink brands and the people that make them. There is a long chapter on the history of sake and the contemporary sake world, and the first extensive descriptions in an English-language book of Japan's indigenous spirits, shochu and awamori. Whole chapters are devoted to Japan's whisky, craft beer and wine industries, offering insights that have until now not been available to readers in English.