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As Ellie’s 50th birthday approaches and her ambitions of a steady income, a successful career and an ascent of Everest seem as far away as ever, she begins to doubt she’s capable of achieving anything at all. So when her best friend Mick suggests a gruelling cycle ride from Land’s End to John o’Groats, she takes up the challenge. They opt for the scenic route which takes them along cycle paths, towpaths and the back roads and byways of Britain, unable to resist sampling beers in the pubs they pass along the way.

The Brewer's Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer's quest to bring them - and their ancient, forgotten beers - back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and place - in Belgian monasteries, rundown farmhouses, and the basement nanobrewery next door. So pull up a barstool and raise a glass to 5,000 years of fermented magic.

Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes...

Gerald Asher, who served as Gourmet's wine editor for 30 years, has drawn together this selection of his essays, published in Gourmet and elsewhere, for the collective insight they give into why a wine should always be an expression of a place and a time. Guiding the reader through 27 diverse wine regions in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and California, he shows how every wine worth drinking is a reflection of its terroir - in the broadest sense of that untranslatable word.

Profiling owners, winemakers, and personalities from around the country and the world, Behind the Bottle is a fun and intriguing look at the people who have made Long Island into one of the hottest wine regions in the country.

So You Want to Start a Brewery? is the first-person account of Tony Magee's gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest--and the fastest growing--craft brewer in the United States.

A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885 winery...

For most people, giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while they earned their living with some financial consultancy work.

Kaffee kennt doch jeder. Denkt man. Doch auf dieser Reise gehen plötzlich Mund und Ohren auf...

The Book of Tea is much more than a book about tea. It's a celebration of the arts and culture of Japan, and a portrait of tea ceremony, the "Way of Tea", as the pinnacle of Japanese spirituality and artistic life. Written in 1906 by Kakuzo Okakura, curator of Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a noted scholar and art critic, this modern classic traces the history of tea from its early medicinal uses in China, through the development of Chinese tea culture, and finally to the role of tea in Japanese Zen, culture, and politics.

Der Hörfunk-Journalist und Weinliebhaber Martin Maria Schwarz ist quer durch Europa gereist, um die Gründe für den Erfolg der Rebsorten Syrah, Riesling, Cabernet & Co. zu erfahren. Winzer erzählen in diesem Hörstück u.a. über den launischen Tempranillo, die exklusive pinot noir oder den verachteten Müller-Thurgau. Dieses Hörbuch ist ein informatives Nachschlagewerk, das Profis wie Laien auf den aktuellen Stand der nationalen und internationalen Weinproduktion bringt.

Nach dem Fund einer Moorleiche mutmaßt man auf der kleinen schottischen Insel Islay, dass sie wohl schon Jahrhunderte dort gelegen haben wird. Doch dann wird ein Handy bei ihr entdeckt. Der Tote ist Hamish Macallan, Eigentümer der besten Whiskybar Edinburghs, und war seit sechs Wochen nicht mehr gesehen worden - nichts Ungewöhnliches für den Mann mit einer Leidenschaft für das einsame Lachsfischen.

Kennen Sie das auch? Sie sind bei ihrem Chef zu einem Geburtstags-Dinner eingeladen und sie wissen, dass er ein passionierter Weinliebhaber ist. Sie selbst trinken zwar gerne mal ein Glas Wein, aber können Omas Apfelwein nicht von einem guten Riesling unterscheiden. Kein Problem! Diese kleine "Weinschule" will Ihnen in kurzer, knapper und unterhaltsamer Form, mit einem humoristischen Augenzwinkern, wichtiges Grundwissen über das wohl facetten- und geschmacksreichste Getränk unserer Kultur vermitteln.

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel halfway around the world and arrive in perfect condition for a cold drink on an Indian verandah. But although you can still buy beers with 'IPA' on the label they are a pale imitation of the original. For the first time in 140 years, a keg of Burton IPA has been brewed with the original recipe for a voyage to India by canal and tall ship, and the man carrying it is Pete Brown, Britain's best beer writer.

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Jean-François Gautier, historien du vin, nous invite à découvrir la fabuleuse histoire du vin, de l'antiquité à nos jours, de la mythologie à l'œnologie. Depuis que la vigne est vin, son histoire est indissolublement liée à celle de l'homme. De Bacchus à Noé, le vin est la source mythologique des civilisations. Le christianisme devient ensuite le propagateur de la viticulture et du vin de messe, et Saint Vincent s'impose comme patron des vignerons.

ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S FIVE BEST BOOKS ON WINE Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. "A rare book that transcends the narrow interests of wine lovers." —The New York Times In...

Gallo Be Thy Name is the portrait of an American dynasty, chronicling the family's history from Prohibition and the Great Depression to its roots in organized crime, its impact on the roiling farm labor movements of the 60s and 70s, and ultimately to its domination of America's wine market. The Gallos rode the turbulent currents of history to triumph, with iconic brothers Ernest and Julio steering the ship. But beneath the carefully polished surface of E. & J. Gallo Winery is a sweeping story of passion and power — swirling with rumors of murder.