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Ultimate Guide to Italian Wine by Daniele Cernilli
If you have room for only one book on Italian wine, this is the one to have. Daniele Cernilli (Doctor Wine) is Italy’s foremost wine critic. He created and edited Gambero Rosso for 24 years before beginning his new annual … Continue reading
Posted in Amarone, Book Reviews, Countries and Regions, Italy, Red Wine, Sparkling Wine, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
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Matt Kramer’s True Taste: The Seven Essential Wine Words
Matt Kramer has written a delightful, little book that in a few pages provides an excellent treatise on the art of wine tasting. It’s a book every serious wine drinker should read. Kramer has always been one of my favorite … Continue reading
Gift Books on Wine for the Holidays
The wine connoisseur always appreciates a good read about wine, and we’ve reviewed several wine books over the past few months that we think would make superb gifts. Click on the title of each book to read our reviews.
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized, Wine Articles
Tagged Featured, Gifts, Holidays
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Book Review: Wines of South America: The Essential Guide by Evan Goldstein
This book on South American wine (UC Press, 2014, $40) is a tour de force by Evan Goldstein. It provides a comprehensive review of the grapes, growing regions, and important producers of the continent, from Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo to Chile’s … Continue reading
Book Review: Wine Atlas of Germany, University of California Press
This is the most extensive, comprehensive and up to date book on German wine geography available in the English language. Authored by three German experts on Riesling and German wine, it was originally published in German in 2007. The English … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Countries and Regions, Germany, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Atlas, Braatz, Riesling, UC Press
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Book Review: Best White Wine on Earth: The Riesling Story by Stuart Pigott
Finally, a witty, erudite and contemporary book in English about Riesling! With a provocative and puckish title, Stuart Pigott writes with gusto in English about his favorite grape and those places and producers who most eloquently conjure its magic. Pigott … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Butler, Pigott, Riesling
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Book Review: American Wine Economics by James Thornton
Since there is now an American Association of Wine Economics, it’s only logical that there should be a book that synthesizes the knowledge and research on economic analysis as applied to the American wine industry. That is precisely what James … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics of Wine, Microeconomics, Textbook, UC Press
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Book Review: My Favorite Burgundies by Clive Coates
Clive Coates is one of the English-speaking world’s foremost authorities on the wines of Burgundy. He has authored seminal books on the region, including The Wines of Burgundy [University of California Press, 2008] and Cote d’Or: A Celebration of the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Countries and Regions, France, Red Wine, Uncategorized, White Wine, Wine Articles, Wine Type
Tagged Burgundy, UC Press
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Book Review: Wines of the New South Africa by Tim James.
If only Tim James had written this book about South African wine two years ago, before we spent many hours researching the producers, appellations, and wine history for our report on The Wines of South Africa. Having done that research, … Continue reading