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From the best-selling author of The Cheese Course comes a new guide to enjoying one of the most basic yet sophisticated culinary delights: cheese and wine. Janet Fletcher leads readers on an international tour of 70 cheeses, exploring the best wine pairings and serving suggestions. From Oregon’s autumnal Rogue River Blue to aromatic Brin d’Amour evocative of the Corsican countryside, cheese lovers will savor the range of textures, flavors, and colors. Featuring mouth-watering color photography and detailed, informative text, this collection of cheeses and the wines that go with them will inspire perfect pairings.

About the Author
Janet Fletcher is a food columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of several Chronicle Books cookbooks. Victoria Pearson’s photographs have been featured in Party Appetizers, Ice Creams & Sorbets, and Dinner Parties.

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With The Wine Enthusiast Pocket Guide to Wine, shopping for a last-minute gift, stocking up for a party, or finding that perfect wine for dinner will never be easier.

From the publishers of Wine Enthusiast Magazine comes this handy guide that provides you with everything you need to get the most out of wine, including easy-to-remember tips on how to buy, store, and enjoy it.

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Wine 101, practical information with a minimum of technical language. Won’t go out of date the minute a new vintage hits the shelves. Written for the novice who wants enough information to purchase, serve and enjoy wine but who doesn’t want to plow through endless descriptions of obscure vintages or wineries. Wine 101 is the first line of defense against wine snobs.

About the Author
Gerald C. Hammon survived twenty years employment with the Federal Government and and decided to write creatively for fun instead of obtusely for regulations. His interest in wine led him to research books available to the public. Most read like college texts. Many concerned themselves with the latest vintages (which were usually sold out before their books reach the market). Wine 101 is written for other amateurs in hopes they won’t have to plow through as much chaff as he did for a basic understanding of wine.

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Former editor and director of Vintage International Magazine Linda Johnson demystifies how to locate, judge, buy, and age the best wines at optimal times for both the taste and the price. Johnson addresses the growing seasons, vintages, and aging periods for various wines, as well as how to create your own cellar and build your collection of wines, complete with approximate costs. Johnson describes and lists wines that are table-ready and those that require short-, medium-, and long-term storage. Her vivid descriptions of regional favorites, triumphs of particular growing years, how to taste a wine, and how aging changes your wine not only inform but make wine collecting (and enjoying) a historical adventure.

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For anyone who has fallen under the spell of wine, starting a collection of high-quality, ageable wines is the inevitable next step. Whether one wants to assemble a simple collection of a few favorite wines, or make a significant investment in a collection of hundreds of bottles, the information in The Wine Collector’s Handbook will save time and money. This handbook will teach you: how to analyze a wine’s potential; how to taste wine like a professional; what and when is maturity; which wines to drink now, and which later; which wines to cellar and for how long; how to get the most for your money. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 206 pages, charts)

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Great wines captivate the world. Which are they, where do they come from, why are they rare? Who or what defines the great vintage years? Looking back through the 20th century, this book identifies the finest wines and recounts how they came about. Though mainly French, the exceptional wines of the century also include German, American, Australian and Italian great names. Here, author Michel Dovaz presents a work which all wine amateurs and professionals alike are looking for: a tribute to the memory of an entire century relating the testimony of those who contributed to the creation of its greatest vintages which, over the next generations, will become more and more sought after. A photo-filled spread is dedicated to the most important events that occurred during the year illustrated in each selected vintage. While these events bear no specific importance to the actual vintage year of the wine, they are of great importance in the total context that occurred in that specific period and thus becomes a great interest to wine enthusiasts and collectors.

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Sure, when it comes to cocktails, you’re the Queen of Cosmopolitans—but wine is in a class by itself. It’s elegant, über-refined—and intimidating. But you don’t have to be a die-hard oenophile to enjoy your vino with panache.
The Downtown Girl’s Guide to Wine is a fun, easy-to-read primer that will help you choose a good wine (or two, or three…) whether you’re hostessing a party or placing an order at a glamorous restaurant. You’ll get the scoop on basic wine terminology, key wine regions, and general trends in wine and restaurant etiquette—including navigating a wine list and handling your sommelier. Packed with hot tips, fun sidebars, and plenty of advice, this sophisticated little guide will have you sipping with savvy in no time.

About the Author
Megan Buckley is a freelance writer and the author of Sexy City Cocktails. A downtown girl of all trades, she is a former New York literary agent and Manhattan bartender extraordinaire.
Sheree Bykofsky is a top New York literary agent, and the author of seventeen books, including The 52 Most Romantic Dates In and Around New York.

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`Essential reading for anyone involved in wine’ The Independent on Sunday, 17/06/01

`For everyone involved in the wine trade, Jancis Robinson’s Oxford Companion to Wine is required reading. . . . a thoroughly absorbing, easy-to-read and rekiable comapnion to its much larger version.’ Harpers on Retail, May 2001,

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From the apprentice to the connoisseur, wine buffs will be enchanted, informed, even surprised by this fabulous guide to the world of wine, now in a portable format. Beautifully presented and unrivalled in its scope, this volume is edited under the acute supervision of the “queen of wine”
Jancis Robinson who presents a distillation of all the essential information for wine-lovers and would-be wine lovers.
Drawn from the internationally celebrated Oxford Companion to Wine–that won every major wine book award, including the Julia Child and the James Beard awards–this new edition contains all the award-winning detail in an affordable, easy-to-handle package. Offering over 2,350 fully accessible
and completely cross-referenced entries, this volume covers every aspect of wine, from wine regions to tasting terms, from labeling to grape varieties, and from the faults of wine to the healthy benefits of wine. Written by over seventy of the world’s best wine experts, this volume also provides a
guide to vintages and a complete list of controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties. Additional features include a statistical overview of wine production and consumption and a new listing of Robinson’s personal selection of up-and-coming wine regions and producers. Lavishly
designed, Concise Wine Companion also displays exquisite black-and-white and full color illustrations, as well as maps of nearly every wine region in the world.
Authoritative yet entertaining, this ultimate–and now handy–reference on wine and wine-making is the perfect volume to enrich a lifetime’s enjoyment of this intoxicating topic.

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The Wine Lover’s Question & Answer Book – A Light-Hearted Guide is a gain-without-pain wine book. It introduces a fresh approach to wine education, presented in a clear, concise format. Its snappy one-to-three line, question-and-answer, light-hearted structure places the reader at ease, allowing each person to find humor in the hoity toity world of wine. Use the book as a reference, as a self-challenging quiz, or as an amusing pastime with friends. Throw a festive party and stage a contest to see who can correctly answer the most questions.

The book contains 330 questions and answers about:

Wine basics What makes a great wine An introduction to the great wine-growing regions of the world Descriptions of the great grapes and the wine made from them Matching wine and food Fascinating historical facts

The last pages contain information about grapes, styles, foods, and wine labels.

This light-hearted book is peppered with quotes and humorous art.

The Wine Lover’s Question & Answer Book is a thoughtful and useful gift that will be appreciated by all.

From the Author
Over the years, my wine tastings included question-and-answer sessions, giving prizes to the most knowledgeable sippers and a booby prize to the most uninformed sipper of the day. But always a fun time was had by all. This book encompasses the spirit of those tasting.