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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...

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.

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.

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.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Business for Punks written and read by James Watt. START A REVOLUTION NOT A BUSINESS Don't waste your time on bullsh*t business plans. Forget sales. Put everything on the line for what you believe in. These are some of the...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest-selling brand of premium wines in the U.S. Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation, feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing.

Since its first publication in 1989, Matt Kramer's extraordinarily accessible guide to wine has become a classic. Where others talk jargon about centrifuges, steel tanks, and acidity levels, Kramer talks about wine itself. The result is an enriching experience that goes far beyond knowing how to read a label or impress a waiter.

“Can I just be Marissa, please? I want to be hilarious and sexy and smart and insanely knowledgeable about wine.” —Mindy Kaling A fresh, fun, and unpretentious guide to wine from Marissa A. Ross, official wine columnist for Bon Appétit. Does the thought of having to buy wine for a dinner...

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...

This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious. For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall...

Already provoking debate and garnering significant attention in France and within the wine world, Vino Business is a surprising and eye-opening book about the dark side of French wine by acclaimed investigative journalist Isabelle Saporta.

At the age of 47, when he was a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of winemaking, began the journey that would lead him, 30 years later, to own and operate what distinguished wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. called "one of the world’s greatest wineries".

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...