Lukacs, Paul (Paul B.)
Summary: Describes the 8,000 year history of wine, chronicling the changes that have taken place in preparation and taste as the ancient world gave way to the scientific, industrial, social and ideological revolutions of modern times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Hoard 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wine and Food Society in association with World Pub. Co. [Cleveland 1966
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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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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Summary: Savor the taste of wines inspired by the Great Lakes as enthusiasts Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Keggerreis introduce passionate winemakers like Joseph Sterling, who ignited Michigan's first viable wine region in the 1800s along Lake Erie. Discover how the Detroit River was used for bootlegging during prohibition, how the raid on red wine in the Upper Peninsula generated national headlines and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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Summary: In 1940, France fell to the Nazis, and the German army almost immediately began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, wine makers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their heroism has remained largely unknown -- until now. Wine and War tells the alternately thrilling and harrowing story of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2001
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Summary: Taber explores the most controversial topic in the world of wine: what product should be used to seal a bottle? Should it be cork, plastic, glass, a screwcap, or some other type of closure still to be invented? For nearly four centuries virtually every bottle of wine had a cork in it. But starting in the 1970s, a revolution began to topple the cork monopoly. In recent years, the rebellion has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 TABLukacs, Paul (Paul B.)
Contents: Introduction: Doubtless as good -- Eastern dreams -- California gold -- Wine as booze -- First families -- Machines in the garden -- Small is beautiful -- Beyond California -- The Rise of American cuisine -- The World comes knocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 LUKDinkelspiel, 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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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 POIWise, Beau
Summary: "From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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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: 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 TRUSohm, 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 SOHChilton, 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