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The Oxford Companion to Wine
This wine book provides comprehensive coverage on all aspects of wine making, and puts wine, wine-making and wine drinking into historical perspective.
Jancis Robinson's Wine Course
Directed at the novice and the professional alike. Introduction to wine by focusing on the grape varieties which shape the flavour of each different wine. Accompanied by book.
The 24-Hour Wine Expert
Wine is now one of the most popular drinks in the world. Many wine drinkers wish they knew more about it without having to understand every detail or go on a wine course. In The 24-Hour Wine Expert, Jancis Robinson shares her expertise with authority, wit and approachability. From the difference between red and white, to the shape of bottles and their labels, descriptions of taste, colour and smell, to pairing wine with food and the price-quality correlation, Robinson helps us make the most of this mysteriously delicious drink.
Wine Grapes
An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's greatest experts. Where do wine grapes come from and how are they related to each other? What is the historical background of each grape variety? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make and, most importantly, what do they taste like? Using the most cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and highlighting almost as many incorrect) synonyms, this particularly beautiful book includes revelatory grape family trees, and a rich variety of illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's seminal ampelography with century-old illustrations. Combining Jancis Robi...
How to Taste
Offers a guide to vintages, grape varieties, and wine appreciation.
Natural Wine for the People
A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additives, and organic and biodynamic growing methods. Today, wine is more favored and consumed that it's ever been in the United States--and millennials are leading the charge, drinking more wine than any other generation in history. Many have been pulled in by the tractor beam of natural wine--that is, organic or biodynamic wine made with nothing added, and nothing taken away--a movement that has completely rocked the wine industry in recent years. While all of the hippest restaurants and wine bars are touting their natural wine lists, and while...
Bursting Bubbles
In Bursting Bubbles, Robert Walters takes us on a journey to visit Champagne's great growers. Along the way, he reveals a secret history of Champagne and dispels many of the myths that still persist about this celebrated wine style. Controversial and ground breaking, Bursting Bubbles will change the way you think about Champagne.
Wines of the Languedoc
Thefirst vineyards of the Languedoc were planted by the Greeks in the 5th centuryBC. Viticulture has flourished in theLanguedoc ever since, particularly in the nineteenth century, when it became France'slargest vineyard area. It still claims that honour today, but its profile isvery difficult. Gone are the days of industrial mass production. The Languedocof the twenty-first century is a vibrant, innovative wine area, whereeverything vinous is possible. Forthe purposes of The wines of Languedoc, the Languedoc stretches from the appellations ofMalepère and Cabardès to the west of Carcassonne as far as Sommières, to theeast of Montpellier, including better known appellations such as Faugères, StChinian, Minervois and Corbières, as well as the more recently recognized like Terrassesdu Larzac. Master of Wine Rosemary George discusses therecent developments in the region, before covering each appellation, with itshistory, geography and terroir. She profiles a personal selection of winegrowers, including some more established names, but focusing above all on thenewcomers, of which there are many, and the potential future stars of theregion.
How to Taste Wine
Master of Wine Jancis Robinson has created this wine tasting course based around practical exercises that will guide you from your first sips to confident, well-informed gulps. Clearly divided into theory and practise, this workbook first provides all the information you need before you put it into practise. Learn the correct way to taste wine and enjoy the tasting exercises specially devised by Jancis based on readily available and inexpensive bottle. Learn how to recognise the most popular grape varieties from Chardonnay to Riesling, Pinot Noir to Cabernet Sauvignon, and why you should choose a good sparkling wine over cheap Champagne. There is advice on choosing from a wine list and how to match food with wine. How to Taste will awaken the wine connoisseur in us all.
Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes
With over 800 entries on how and where wine grapes grow, how they taste, how they relate, and the sort of wines they produce.
