Author : Norman S. Roby
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
This essential guide to the wines and wineries of California--and the entire West Coast--has been freshly revised and expanded to include the latest available vintages, and details of many new wineries. The authors provide everything readers need to know, from the basics of winemaking to grape and wine varieties to harvest reports and reviews of more than 800 wineries.
Author : Norman S. Roby
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780679426899
This essential guide to the wines and wineries of California--and the entire West Coast--has been freshly revised and expanded to include the latest available vintages, and details of many new wineries. The authors provide everything readers need to know, from the basics of winemaking to grape and wine varieties to harvest reports and reviews of more than 800 wineries.
Author : Charles E. Olken
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520253132
"I have depended on Charles Olken's Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine for more than 35 years. This new Guidebook is a perfect complement. No other book comes close to its thoroughness, accuracy, and usefulness. It is a must for travelers in California's wine country."—Charles L. Sullivan, author of Zinfandel "Olken's perspective on California wines is unmatched: he spans the landscape from the postwar pioneers to the newest garagistes, and wine criticism from before Parker to the age of blogs. This new guidebook is informed by his 35 years of careful, candid, and comprehensive attention to California wine."—John Winthrop Haeger, author of Pacific Pinot Noir
Author : Charles E. Olken
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Wine and wine making
ISBN :
Author : Norman S. Roby
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Wine and wine making
ISBN : 9780375703294
In its newly updated, revised, and expanded fourth edition, America's favorite guide to the wines of California and the West Coast offers even more comprehensive and authoritative information. More than 700 wineries and labels are appraised (including 100 discussed for the first time), and the new edition features "exclusively" the latest word on all the wines of Oregon and Washington State. 7 maps.
Author : Ed McCarthy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0470506547
Discover the nuances of California wines and increase your drinking pleasure Want to be a California wine connoisseur? This friendly guide gives you the knowledge you need to appreciate these fine wines, showing you how to taste them, select a good bottle, pair wine with food, and much more. You'll see why certain wine regions are renowned and how to further enrich your wine-drinking experience. California wine 101 — understand the range of California wines, what makes them unique, and what a varietal wine is Review the regions — explore the major wine regions of California and what makes each one special, from the soil to the climate Open the bottle — become fluent in the Big Six: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Zinfandel Go beyond the basics — appreciate Pinot Grigio, Viognier, Syrah, sparkling wines, and more Round out your wine experience — pair and share wines, learn about the proper glassware and serving temperatures, and prepare for a winery visit Open the book and find: An overview of California wine today Wine recommendations for all budgets Explanations of wine label language A map of wine regions Tips for aging and collecting California wines Winery tasting etiquette The ins and outs of recent vintages Top wine country travel destinations
Author : Jon Bonné
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1607743000
A comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California's "new generation," and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in recent years. The New California Wine is the untold story of the California wine industry: the young, innovative producers who are rewriting the rules of contemporary winemaking; their quest to express the uniqueness of California terroir; and the continuing battle to move the state away from the overly-technocratic, reactionary practices of its recent past. Jon Bonné writes from the front lines of the California wine revolution, where he has access to the stories, philosophies, and techniques of top producers. In this groundbreaking debut, Bonné paints an unflinching portrait of the current state of the industry: its strengths and shortcomings, its essential wines and those not worth pursuing. Lush full-color photographs, as well as a region-by-region tour of some of California’s lesser-known growing areas, reveal the people and places behind the bottles. Finally, a comprehensive purchasing reference lists all the must-know producers and their best wines, making The New California Wine an essential resource for finding and buying the very best the state has to offer.
Author : Charles E. Olken
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0520947266
For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries. An encyclopedia, atlas, and buying guide combined in one comprehensive, authoritative work, this new guide delivers information and guidance that is not available in any other place. From first page to last, it is geared towards a wide range of consumers, yet also offers the depth and detail that made its predecessor one of the most frequently referenced works by wine educators and industry insiders. Now organized geographically into eight wine regions, the guide has been completely rewritten and expanded to provide the most current information on the state’s evolving wine industry—its history, grapes, winemaking, terminology, geography, and leading wineries.
Author : Charles L. Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520920873
California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. But until now there has been no comprehensive guide to California wine and winemaking. Charles L. Sullivan's A Companion to California Wine admirably fills that gap—here is the reference work for consumers, wine writers, producers, and scholars. Sullivan's encyclopedic handbook traces the Golden State's wine industry from its mission period and Gold Rush origins down to last year's planting and vintage statistics. All aspects of wine are included, and wine production from vine propagation to bottling is described in straightforward language. There are entries for some 750 wineries, both historical and contemporary; for more than 100 wine grape varieties, from Aleatico to Zinfandel; and for wine types from claret to vermouth—all given in a historical context. In the book's foreword the doyen of wine writers, Hugh Johnson, tells of his own forty-year appreciation of California wine and its history. "Charles Sullivan's Companion," he adds, "will provide the grist for debate, speculation, and reminiscence from now on. With admirable dispassion he sets before us just what has happened in the plot so far."
Author : Mike Weiss
Publisher : Large Print Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780786279685
Traces the author's two-year exploration of a successful Sonoma County winery, a visit during which he learned about the intricate process of grape cultivating, the minutiae of wine creation, and the detailed efforts of marketing and selling.
