Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: Could China take over the wine world? Cynthia Howson and Pierre Ly explore how Chinese wine went from being ignored and ridiculed to earning gold medals and praise by famous critics in less than a decade. Wine made in... China? Until recently, for most people, at best, it didn't exist. Or at worst, as one colorful tasting note described, it evoked: "ash tray, coffee grounds, and urinal crust."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 HOWRoux, Michel Pierre.
Summary: A guide to the vineyards and domains of Burgundy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publivin 1973
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE ROUPoister, John J.
Summary: Supplies more than 300 recipes for a variety of punches and mixed drinks combining wines with fruit juices, liquors, liqueurs, and other ingredients
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1983
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2WINE POIRoux, Michel Pierre.
Summary: A guide to the vineyards and chateaux of Bordeaux.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publivin 1972
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE ROUSimonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of France. Includes wine list and map of France's wine country on container sheet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVEJohnson, Hugh
Summary: Concentrating on wine-producing regions of the world, this atlas emphasizes the relationship between geography and its effects on a wine's character and notes important geographic features of famous vineyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitchell Beazley 2019
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Summary: Draws on "Sunset magazine's" One-Block Diet blog to instruct readers on how to raise and produce all ingredients for numerous "from-scratch" meals, providing plans that include a sustainable vegetable garden, backyard bee hives, and a chicken roost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2011
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Summary: Pinot Noir is a uniquely challenging grape with an unrivalled ability to reflect the character of the site where it grows. Winemakers all over the world have set out in search of the Holy Grail: to repeat Burgundy's success with Pinot Noir. "In Search of Pinot Noir" investigates the changing character of Burgundy, asks what happens to Pinot Noir outside of Burgundy, and examines how the wines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vendange Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE LEWChilton, Richard L.
Summary: Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns can influence the quality of a vintage. A vineyard owner and lifelong wine lover, the author...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 CHISohm, Aldo
Summary: Aldo Sohm is one of the most respected and widely lauded sommeliers in the world. He's worked with celebrated chef Eric Ripert as wine director of three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin for over a decade, yet his philosophy and approach to wine is much more casual. Aldo's debut book, Wine Simple, is full of confidence-building infographics and illustrations, an unbeatable depth of knowledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.2 SOHFeiring, Alice.
Summary: "Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics-wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them "overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown" and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 FEIIsle, Ray
Summary: "Drawing on his deep knowledge and genuine appreciation of winemaking, Isle takes us on a tour of several hundred independently owned wineries around the world-everywhere from France's Burgundy to Oregon's Willamette Valley to the Itata Valley in the southern reaches of Chile-bringing the local vintners to life and describing the different wines they produce in vivid detail. Isle's enthusiasm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 ISLAsimov, Eric.
Summary: "A beautifully written, thought-provoking combination memoir and manifesto by Eric Asimov, the acclaimed, highly respected chief wine critic for the New York Times"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 ASISummary: Get up close to the wildlife, see the many natural wonders of Cape Town, drive along the beautiful coastline, and visit the village of Franschhoek, in the heart of wine country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.804 BESSummary: A renowned wine expert who is bitten by the investigative bug helps the police by seeking out new mysteries in the heart of Bordeaux and in the regions of Cognac and Champagne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLOSummary: The scam of Saint-Vivant: "While on tour in Burgundy, Benjamin is approached by the son of a notable estate owner seeking his professional expertise. He soon finds out that his presence is curiously un-welcomed by the father. To make matters worse, a former employee of the estate is found dead and the police consider everyone a suspect, including Benjamin himself."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLOHallgarten, S. F.
Summary: A Guide to the Vineyards Estates and Wines of Germany
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publivin 1974
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE HALKendrick, Beth
Summary: "TURNING SOUR GRAPES INTO SPARKLING WINE Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of Cabernet--her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she's hit rock bottom, her aunt Ginger calls with a surprise. She has bought a vineyard--in Delaware. At Ginger's command, Cammie returns to Black Dog Bay, the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KENSimonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of Italy. Includes wine list and map of Italy's wine country on container sheet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVESummary: Benjamin Lebel is a luminary in his field: an internationally renowned wine expert who publishes a keenly-awaited new guide every year. When the local police chief enlists his help in the hunt for a serial killer who combines murders with Grand Crus, Benjamin's intuition and his nose are stimulated by the puzzling case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLOGrimes, Beshlie.
Summary: Discover the traditions behind making wines, nectars, and cordials and how easy it is to make them in your own home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cico 2012
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Summary: From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, every aspect of growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine is covered in this classic guide. Fully illustrated instructions clearly show you how to choose and prepare a vineyard site; build effective trellising systems; select, plant, prune, and harvest the right grapes for your climate; press, ferment, age, and bottle wine; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2015