Simonetti-Bryan, Jennifer
Summary: A six-part lecture series about wines of California. Includes wine list and map of California wine country on container sheet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 EVETuccille, Jerome.
Summary: Chronicles how the Gallo family used a combination of toil, cunning, and crime to rise from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s and build the most successful wine company in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 TUCKiger, John I.
Summary: A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the journey from vine to bottle. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world--the host of animals, insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose of an unsuspecting grower. Highlighting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.8 KIGConaway, James.
Summary: Delightedly discovering a Cabernet worthy of his highest score, egotistical wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones investigates the vintage's mysterious origins only to land in the middle of a scandalous family squabble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONDinkelspiel, Frances
Summary: "On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.4 DINHowson, Cynthia.
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 HOWPoister, 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 POIJohnson, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wildsam Field Guides: Napa & Sonoma leads travelers into the heart of California's sun-washed wine country, unlocking the pleasures and complexities of one of America's most beloved landscapes. Contributors include longtime Wall Street Journal wine writer Dorothy Gaiter, novelist and tribal leader Greg Sarris, winemakers Andrew Mariani and Tony Coturri (among others) and innovative farmer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.941 NAPA WILLewin, Benjamin.
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 LEWTrue, Margo.
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