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Book The History of Rioja Wine

Download or read book The History of Rioja Wine written by Ludger Mees and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Rioja Wine offers an informative, chronological and in-depth account of Rioja wine from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. This book illuminates the fascinating and largely unknown success story of Rioja wine. Drawing on illustrative sources, the volume traces the economic, social, cultural and political evolution of Rioja wine from the 1850s to the present day, concluding with a reflection on the lesson its appealing success story offers to any lover of history and wine. The book is adorned with historical photographs throughout, the majority previously unpublished. An ideal companion both for students interested in Spanish history and wine enthusiasts more generally, this volume offers readers the opportunity to uncork the secrets of Rioja’s wine.

Book The Rough Guide to Spain

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Spain written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 1285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new full-colour Rough Guide to Spain is the ultimate guide to one of Europe's most vibrant and exciting countries. Expert authors lift the lid on the famous cities, buildings, sights and natural attractions, from the dazzling Gaudí buildings in Barcelona to the dramatic mountains of the Pyrenees. Whether you're looking for a boutique hotel in Madrid, a hidden corner in Moorish Andalucia, a hip beach resort on the costas or the latest fashionable restaurant to emerge from the Basque country, you'll find it in the Rough Guide. Each region is brought to life with inspiring photography and clear, colourful maps, while honest, up-to-date reviews search out the best places to eat, sleep and drink in every price range. Budget travellers, city-break weekenders, hikers and drivers will all find something to inspire them in this definitive guide.

Book Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Lipscombe
  • Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1588433986
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Spain written by Kelly Lipscombe and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the most significant cities, islands, mountains, parks and foods, this book is a guide to the finest attractions to be found in Spain. Written by a resident of the country, it covers the entire country from Ibiza to Granada, Andalucia, Barcelona, Madrid and Toledo.

Book The Writer s Reference Guide to Spanish

Download or read book The Writer s Reference Guide to Spanish written by David William Foster and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation. Language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities. Bibliographic format, particularly how Spanish differs from English. Spanish language forms of classical authors' names. Literary and grammatical terminology. Linguistic terminology. Biblical names and allusions. A dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.

Book   Vino

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl J. Trybus
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 1496203623
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Vino written by Karl J. Trybus and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¡Vino! explores the history and identity of Spanish wine production from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Nineteenth-century infestations of oidium fungus and phylloxera aphids devastated French and Italian vineyards but didn't extend to the Iberian Peninsula at first, giving Spanish vintners the opportunity to increase their international sales. Once French and Italian wineries rebounded, however, Spanish wine producers had to up their game. Spain could not produce only table wine; it needed a quality product to compete with the supposedly superior French wines. After the Spanish Civil War the totalitarian Franco regime turned its attention to Spain's devastated agricultural sector, but the country's wine industry did not rebound until well after World War II. In the postwar years, it rebranded itself to compete in a more integrated European and international marketplace with the creation of a new wine identity. As European integration continued, Spanish wine producers and the tourism industry worked together to promote the uniqueness of Spain and the quality of its wines. Karl J. Trybus explores the development of Spanish wine in the context of national and global events, tracing how the wine industry has fared and ultimately prospered despite civil war, regional concerns, foreign problems, and changing tastes.

Book Spagna settentrionale

Download or read book Spagna settentrionale written by and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opus Vino

    Book Details:
  • Author : DK
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2010-10-18
  • ISBN : 0756675103
  • Pages : 802 pages

Download or read book Opus Vino written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The techniques and research that have led the world's winemaking revolution have been transported around the globe, pushing boundaries in every region. An expansive new reference is needed to embrace these changes. Opus Vino provides greater coverage and a more up-to-date approach to the wine world than any other illustrated wine book. Use it as an encyclopedia to look up wine-producing regions, appellations, wineries, and producers; as an atlas to find places of interest; and as a travel guide to plan winery tours. Opus Vino takes a new look at the new world of wine from a new generation of wine writers. It takes wine publishing to new heights, and gives both professionals and amateur enthusiasts a wine reference fit for the 21st century.

Book The Rough Guide to Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jules Brown
  • Publisher : Rough Guides UK
  • Release : 2009-04-01
  • ISBN : 1848368372
  • Pages : 2454 pages

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Spain written by Jules Brown and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 2454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Spain is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best Spanish attractions. Discover the vibrant regions of Spain from the outstanding art of Madrid to tapas in Barcelona and foot-stamping Flamenco in Southern Spain. New features explore the best Spanish wine, walks in Spain and Spain's key fiestas whilst an increased Spanish language section will get you started on Catalan, Basque and Gelego. Find detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Spain whilst relying on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Spain, bars in Spain, restaurants in Spain, shops in Spain and Spanish festivals for all budgets. You'll find expert tips on exploring Spain's varied landscapes, from the rías of Galicia to the coves of the Balearics; and authoritative background on Spain's history and wildlife, with the low-down on every major fiesta. Explore all corners of Spain with the clearest maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Spain.

Book Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Lipscomb
  • Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 785 pages

Download or read book Spain written by Kelly Lipscomb and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rough Guide to Spain

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  • Author : Simon Baskett
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-04-01
  • ISBN : 9781848360341
  • Pages : 1000 pages

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Spain written by Simon Baskett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to one of Europe's most intense and dramatic countries - Spain. Featuring in-depth coverage of all the great historic cities and monuments, it also provides information on the best hotels, restaurants, beaches and nightlife.

Book Wine and Tourism

Download or read book Wine and Tourism written by Marta Peris-Ortiz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to show how wine tourism can be used as a model for sustainable economic development, driving economic growth and social development in some locations. It will explore the interaction between tourism and viticulture in wine tourism destinations, while also explaining some of the repercussions of these activities. This book covers various topics including regional development, environmental management, sustainable viticulture, quality management in wineries and wine tourism routes among others. Wine tourism, which combines two important yet distinct economic activities (i.e., tourism and viticulture), has recently emerged as a new tourism product driven by tourists’ search for new experiences and wineries’ need to diversify their businesses and seek new revenue streams to boost sales. This new form of tourism, which typically takes place in rural areas and which combines wine production with tourist activities, is becoming important for such regions by providing a complementary income source. It provides a model for sustainable economic development for these regions, which for various reasons may otherwise struggle to develop. Featuring cases and business implications from various locations, this book provides an important source of knowledge—both theoretical and practical—suitable to academics, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the tourism sector and the wine industry.

Book Crossroads

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  • Author : Dr Debra D Andrist
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-14
  • ISBN : 178284645X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Crossroads written by Dr Debra D Andrist and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossroads! Intersections physical and/or metaphorical demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no longer an option where convergence is poised before the unknown. Where categories such as gender, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, philosophy and religion clash, the multivariate process can reach such complexity that literary, sociological and psychological tools can have differing interpretations. Real-life intersections range from the mundane (choosing among food items on a menu according to taste preferences) to survival-determinants (evaluating the efficacy of various medical procedures). But such intersections are at the two ends of a very long continuum that takes in issues of form/function, and traditional vs.modern. For example, Home may be defined both as a physical place and/or a mental construct. In more esoteric contexts, artists chiefly known for visual production, representing their ideas with color and form, not infrequently cross media to paint with words. Philosophy, religion, art and literature cross paths via symbols and other visual and linguistic constructs. Writers deal with how and where their own or their characters multiple identities intersect. The Hispanic world is an extraordinarily vivid place to explore these crossroads. This collection of essays addresses a multitude of crossroads in numerous Hispanic contexts across the intersections of time & space/tradition & modernity. The contexts are wide-ranging; e.g., the visual, architectural: how Spains age-old oenological tradition meets modern technology, how the vestiges of long-term dictatorship lurk in the spaces of Spains democracy; and how space/architecture, and art/poetry cross in Latin America. Painters Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlos productions cross the visual to the written; and magical realism products of the twentieth century Latin American artistic movement defy nature, science, time and space.

Book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide  7th Edition

Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide 7th Edition written by Robert M. Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 1539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information. The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls “the most powerful critic of any kind.”

Book The Greatest Works of Ernest Hemingway

Download or read book The Greatest Works of Ernest Hemingway written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 2069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories, 'The Greatest Works of Ernest Hemingway,' showcases his distinctive literary style characterized by succinct prose and understated emotional depth. Each story in this collection delves into themes of masculinity, war, love, and death, all presented with Hemingway's trademark minimalistic yet powerful writing. Hemingway's influence on American literature is evident in his realistic and immersive portrayal of the human experience. His works continue to resonate with readers for their timeless and universal themes. Ernest Hemingway, a Nobel Prize-winning author known for his adventurous life and unique writing style, drew inspiration from his own experiences as a journalist and World War I ambulance driver. His vivid storytelling and precise language set him apart as a literary giant of the 20th century. Hemingway's complex characters and insights into the human condition make his works a must-read for those interested in classic American literature. I highly recommend 'The Greatest Works of Ernest Hemingway' to readers who appreciate thought-provoking narratives that capture the essence of life and humanity. This collection is a testament to Hemingway's enduring legacy as one of the greatest writers of the modern era.

Book Microbiology and Health Benefits of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages

Download or read book Microbiology and Health Benefits of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages written by Jyoti Prakash Tamang and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microbiology and Health Benefits of Traditional Alcoholic Beverages is an interdisciplinary reference for students, researchers, and academics studying anthropology and food and beverage science, especially those with interest in fermentation. Fermented beverages and alcoholic drinks are culturally and socially accepted products for consumption, drinking, entertainment, as well as for customary practices and religious purposes. Due to variation in substrates, climatic conditions, geographical locations and ethnicity, a colossal diversity of microbial community as well as major domains have been reported in the different varieties of fermented beverages of the world. This book covers the cultural context of these beverages along with their biochemistry, health benefits, and therapeutic uses. Topics include winemaking, malting and brewing of wine and beer, and culturally specific beverages and practices such as fermented palm beverages and agave. - Profiles the microbial community as well as major domains by metagenomics in traditional fermented beverages - Covers the chemical profiles and health benefits of alcoholic products - Presents the latest status of some industrialized alcoholic beverages such as saké of Japan, mackgeolli of Korea, baijiu of China, toddy of India, pulque of Mexico, wine, beer, etc.

Book The Rough Guide to Spain

Download or read book The Rough Guide to Spain written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 1277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Spain is the definitive guide to this captivating country, with in-depth coverage of everything from its classic cities to hidden island beaches. The introduction will help you choose where to go and what to see, inspired by dozens of stunning photos. The Things Not To Miss section runs through all the must-sees, while the Itineraries guide you around the country's highlights. Navigation through the book and on the ground is aided by clear color maps with every chapter. Each map is keyed with all the accommodation, eating and drinking options, nightlife venues, and shops that are reviewed in detail in the Listings chapters. With stunning photography to inspire you and clear maps to steer you, The Rough Guide to Spain will ensure you discover the best of Spain, whether it's ticking off Gaudí's stunning architectural masterpieces in Barcelona, hiking in the magnificent Picos de Europa, admiring Granada's splendid Alhambra, or taking part in one of the country's fabulously vibrant fiestas. Insider reviews reveal the best places to eat, sleep and party with something for every budget, whether you want to stay in a majestic parador, sip sherry in Jerez, bar-hop in Madrid or nab a table at one of Catalunya's hottest restaurants. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Spain.

Book I Drink Therefore I Am

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Scruton
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2013-01-03
  • ISBN : 1408194694
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book I Drink Therefore I Am written by Roger Scruton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts. This good-humoured book offers an antidote to the pretentious clap-trap that is written about wine today and a profound apology for the drink on which civilisation has been founded. In vino veritas.