Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Pleasures Of Wines And Spirits
Download The Pleasures Of Wines And Spirits full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Pleasures Of Wines And Spirits ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of Wines and Spirits by : Pavilion Books
Download or read book The Pleasures of Wines and Spirits written by Pavilion Books and published by Pavilion Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Booklovers' Guide to Wine by : Patrick Alexander
Download or read book The Booklovers' Guide to Wine written by Patrick Alexander and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully informative guide to two of the world’s most rewarding pleasures—fine wine and great literature—that make for an irresistible pairing. Nothing in the world is more satisfying to the soul than a glass of excellent cabernet sauvignon, pinot grigio, bordeaux, or any number of fine varietals—unless it’s curling up by the fire with a truly exceptional novel, history, or collection of short fiction. Now Patrick Alexander, wine aficionado and author of The Illustrated Proust, combines these unparalleled pleasures in a unique guidebook to delight connoisseurs of both Gatsby and the grape. In The Booklovers’ Guide to Wine, Alexander shares his passion for the culture and history of wine and his love of great authors and their enduring works. Eschewing the traditional pairings of food and drink, he explores instead the most pleasing combinations of reds, whites, and rosés with their most compatible writers—be it Shakespeare with sherry, Jane Austin with chardonnay, or J.R.R. Tolkien with albariño. In addition, he examines the most interesting and thought-provoking wine references in literature while providing an intriguing history of the beloved beverage from biblical times to the latest trends. Chock-full of intriguing facts, expert opinions, and entertaining anecdotes, The Booklovers’ Guide to Wine is a book to be savored by anyone who appreciates the complexity of a full-bodied shiraz or the unmistakable flavor of a great author.
Book Synopsis My Collection. the Road to Pleasure. Wine and Spirits by : John Martin
Download or read book My Collection. the Road to Pleasure. Wine and Spirits written by John Martin and published by Editorial Printed Fine Arts. This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Wine and Spirits is a universe of physical and mental sensations, with great positive influence in everybody's life. The book you are about to read explains in full, in this great essay collection, its sources and elaboration. As John brilliantly explains, Wines in particular and Liquors in general, belong to a life with plenty of good health and happiness, unless an extreme abuse takes place causing dangerous diseases. All Five Continents are producers of Wines and Spirits of different styles. There is no doubt that they are the best accompaniment with the daily food, banquets and all types of celebrations, due to its inspiring aromas and exotic flavors. All the reader's questions will be satisfied by the Author. John Martin is already, for more than seventeen years, the brilliant Wine and Spirits Editor of "Selecta" Magazine and also a contributor for "Casalife" Magazine subsidiary of "Selecta," pouring his wise and accurate knowledge on the "The World of Wine and Spirits" Open the door and go forward! Michael Bulnes. President. Revista Selecta
Book Synopsis Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures by : Paul Lukacs
Download or read book Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures written by Paul Lukacs and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meticulously researched history…look[s] at how wine and Western civilization grew up together." —Dave McIntyre, Washington Post Because science and technology have opened new avenues for vintners, our taste in wine has grown ever more diverse. Wine is now the subject of careful chemistry and global demand. Paul Lukacs recounts the journey of wine through history—how wine acquired its social cachet, how vintners discovered the twin importance of place and grape, and how a basic need evolved into a realm of choice.
Book Synopsis Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects by : Mark Oldman
Download or read book Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects written by Mark Oldman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PBS wine guru Mark Oldman quenches the universal thirst for the affordable gems coveted by insiders. Weary of buying the same old wines again and again? Wine personality Mark Oldman—known to millions of PBS viewers as a main judge on The Winemakers and winner of the Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award—is here to rescue your taste buds with a groundbreaking guide to irresistible wines of moderate cost and maximum appeal. In his signature style that Bon Appétit calls "wine speak without the geek," Oldman uses insightful prose, hilarious anecdotes, and ingenious graphics to reveal the secret wines that everyone wishes they were drinking. Not only does he provide the inside scoop on each wine type's taste, cost, pronunciation, and food affinities, but he details the exclusive picks of more than 130 wine-passionate "Bravehearts," including Tom Colicchio, Guy Fieri, and Jodie Foster. Entertaining like no other, this is a guide for everyone who wants to drink like an insider without breaking the bank.
Book Synopsis Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, and Spirits by : Harold J. Grossman
Download or read book Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, and Spirits written by Harold J. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 1983-06-15 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn to Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, and Spirits for quick answers to your questions about any alcoholic beverage and for insights into the history and origins of liquor. Whether you're looking for technical advice or interesting conversation pieces, this resource is sure to meet all of your needs.
Book Synopsis You Had Me at Pet-Nat by : Rachel Signer
Download or read book You Had Me at Pet-Nat written by Rachel Signer and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher of Pipette Magazine, discover a natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion—and falling in love. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a touch of horse mane. Instead she was an under-appreciated freelance journalist and waitress in New York City, frustrated at always being broke and completely miserable in love. When she tastes her first pétillant-naturel (pét-nat for short), a type of natural wine made with no additives or chemicals, it sets her on a journey of self-discovery, both deeply personal and professional, that leads her to Paris, Italy, Spain, Georgia, and finally deep into the wilds of South Australia and which forces her, in the face of her "Wildman," to ask herself the hard question: can she really handle the unconventional life she claims she wants? Have you ever been sidetracked by something that turned into a career path? Did you ever think you were looking for a certain kind of romantic partner, but fell in love with someone wild, passionate and with a completely different life? For Signer, the discovery of natural wine became an introduction to a larger ethos and philosophy that she had long craved: one rooted in egalitarianism, diversity, organics, environmental concerns, and ancient traditions. In You Had Me at Pét-Nat, as Signer begins to truly understand these revolutionary wine producers upending the industry, their deep commitment to making their wine with integrity and with as little intervention as possible, she is smacked with the realization that unless she faces, head-on, her own issues with commitment, she will not be able to live a life that is as freewheeling, unpredictable, and singular as the wine she loves.
Book Synopsis Liquid Memory by : Jonathan Nossiter
Download or read book Liquid Memory written by Jonathan Nossiter and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Nossiter, acclaimed filmmaker and former sommelier, had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's fingertip. For him, wine is "memory in its most liquid and dynamic form," as essential an expression of culture as cinema, books, baseball, painting, even sex. With great wit and passion, he celebrates wine and its enthusiasts—and defends both from those who tell us what to drink and how to think about it. In Liquid Memory, the American expatriate investigates the infinite mysteries of terroir, the historical sense of place that makes wine a living, thrilling expression of cultural identity that can stretch back centuries. The book is a deliriously joyful master class in locating the soul of a wine, and in learning to trust your own palate and desires. Nossiter, who has already created an uproar in the world of wine with his film Mondovino, arms us against the tyranny of snobs, critics, and charlatans who would prevent us from taking part in what should be a gloriously democratic bacchanalia. From the sacred wine shops and three-star restaurants of Paris to the biodynamic vineyards of Burgundy, from the hipster bistros of New York to film locations in Rio de Janeiro and Athens, this singular journey invites us to consider how power, misused, can sometimes mask an absence of taste—and how our own personal taste can combat power in any sphere. A controversial bestseller in Europe, Liquid Memory is sure to rile the establishment, enlighten the thirsty, and reveal the inner life of the world's most mysterious, contradictory, and jubilatory drink.
Book Synopsis Beverage Basics by : Robert W. Small
Download or read book Beverage Basics written by Robert W. Small and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beverage Basics presents a new approach to understanding wine and other alcoholic beverages. The book includes an introduction to alcoholic beverages, information on important issues such as purchasing beverages, healthy drinking, and alcohol and the law, and an introduction to wine including viticulture, viniculture, and the sensory evaluation of wine. The authors teach readers about wines by varietal as opposed to appellation, which is a much simpler entry point for beginners to the world of wine. In addition to all the major wine varietals (Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, etc.), the book also covers hybrid and Native American varieties, sparkling wines, and dessert and fortified wines. Chapters on beer and distilled spirits include information on making, purchasing, and evaluating beer and spirits. The appendices include map-filled sections on The Old World and The New World of wine, as well as a thorough examination of the TTB requirements for alcoholic beverage labels, and a complete glossary of terms. Author Robert Small is former Dean and Emeritus Professor of The Collins College of Hospitality Management at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he still teaches courses on wine, spirits, and beer and on beverage marketing and food and beverage management, and is the Chairman of the Los Angeles International Wine competition, one of the largest and most prestigious wine competitions in the United States.
Book Synopsis Notes on a Cellar-Book by : George Saintsbury
Download or read book Notes on a Cellar-Book written by George Saintsbury and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in 1920, George Saintsbury's classic Notes on a Cellar-Book has remained one of the greatest tributes to drink and drinking in the literature of wine. A collection of tasting notes, menus, and robust opinions, the work is filled with anecdotes and recollections of wines and spirits consumed—from the heights of Romanée-Conti to the simple pleasures of beer, flip, and mum. Thomas Pinney brings this unique work alive for contemporary audiences by providing the keys to a full understanding of Notes on a Cellar-Book in a new edition that includes explanatory endnotes, an essay on the book's legacy, and additional articles on wine by Saintsbury.
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of Wine by : Robert Lawrence Balzer
Download or read book The Pleasures of Wine written by Robert Lawrence Balzer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dark Wine Waters by : Frances Simone
Download or read book Dark Wine Waters written by Frances Simone and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's heartbreaking story of a marriage destroyed by her husband's addiction to alcohol. The dynamics of codependency are illuminated in this gripping tale. Author and widow Frances Simone describes her husband's attempts at treatment and subsequent relapse, his suicide, and her own recovery through a twelve-step program for families. Frances Simone, PhD, is a recently retired professor emeritus from the graduate college of Marshall University in South Charleston, West Virginia. Her essays have appeared in The Voice and The Quarterly of the National Writing Project, the Charleston Gazette, Writers Digest, and The Forum.
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of Wine by : Gerald Asher
Download or read book The Pleasures of Wine written by Gerald Asher and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays about wine, from vine to table.
Book Synopsis Tasting Pleasure by : Jancis Robinson
Download or read book Tasting Pleasure written by Jancis Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the French admit that Jancis Robinson is the "undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine" (Le Figaro). Internationally renowned for her work in both television and print, she is the editor of the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine and has won more than two dozen major awards around the world. Tasting Pleasure is her compelling account of a passion that began while studying at Oxford University.Writing with Julia Child's authority, Elizabeth David's intelligence, and M.F.K. Fisher's verve, Robinson takes us on a journey through the world's finest cellars, most beautiful vineyards, and best restaurants. As she explores the universe of the grape--from Bordeaux to Australia and South Africa to California--we meet scores of colorful, wine-loving characters, including Philippe de Rothschild, Julian Barnes, Francis Ford Coppola, and Julio Gallo.There are many books about producing and rating wine; this one is about enjoying it. Witty, revealing, and knowledgeable, in Tasting Pleasure Jancis Robinson has distilled twenty years in the wine world into a hugely entertaining read.
Download or read book Wine Memories written by Sara Nickles and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated volume, 40 renowned writers from the world of food and wine capture the joys of the perfect glass of wine in evocative excerpts from fiction, essays, and memoirs. Interspersed are color reproductions of 40 wine labels from around the world. Introduction by author Brian St. Pierre.
Book Synopsis The Barefoot Spirit by : Michael Houlihan
Download or read book The Barefoot Spirit written by Michael Houlihan and published by Footnotes Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling business paperback chronicles the unlikely opportunities that transformed this unknown novelty label into an American icon. This is the story about how Barefoot Wines helped transform an entire industry from stuffy and intimidating to fun and socially aware.
Book Synopsis The Spirituality of Wine by : Gisela H. Kreglinger
Download or read book The Spirituality of Wine written by Gisela H. Kreglinger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wine serves an important role both in Scripture and in the Christian church, but its significance has received relatively little theological attention in modern times. This book fills that gap. Viewing wine as a gift of God's created bounty and as a special symbol used pervasively throughout Scripture, Kreglinger canvasses the history of wine in the church, particularly its use in the Lord's Supper, discusses the fascinating process of winemaking, and considers both the health benefits of wine and the dangers of alcohol abuse. Offering a vision of the Christian life that sees God in all things - including the work of a vintner and the enjoyment of a well crafted glass of wine.