Download or read book Buyer s Guide to American Wines written by Anthony Dias Blue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely updated and revised edition, Anthony Dias Blue, the renowned wine expert and author of the definitive wine reference American Wine: A Comprehensive Guide, offers consumers his authoritative ratings of more than 5,000 domestic vintages, listed in an accessible, alphabetical format by wineries and their products.
Download or read book American Wine Buyer s Guide written by Dias Blue, Anthony and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide 7th Edition written by Robert M. Parker and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker's stated goal: "To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision." 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."
Download or read book Andrea Immer s Wine Buying Guide for Everyone written by Andrea Immer and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Buying Guide to America’s Most Popular and Accessible Wines The first guide to buying wine that grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels. Andrea Immer, one of America’s foremost wine authorities, surveyed thousands of wine professionals and ordinary consumers, who assess what really matters most–taste and value for the money. She also provides: • Best-of lists: The top performing wines • Immer Best Bets: Andrea Immer’s top picks for every major buying dilemma, from inexpensive crowd pleasers to blue-chip choices for business entertaining • “The Top Fifty Wines You’re Not Drinking”: These wines are less well known, but offer good availability and great value • Immersion Course: Quick and easy label-reading lessons to give you instant buying expertise • Kitchen Countertop (and Fridge) Survivor™ grades: How long will the wine keep after it’s opened? Now you’ll know the wines’ “freshness window” after opening.
Download or read book The Wine Buyer s Guide written by Robert Parker and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work for the discerning wine buyer combines tasting notes with specific buying recommendations. The author lists the best vintages, their different levels of quality and their prices. He states when the wine should be drunk and how long certain wines may take to mature.
Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide written by Robert Parker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide written by Robert M. Parker (Jr.) and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker's acclaimed guide, fully revised with ratings on the latest vintages from around the world, is one of the most authoritative wine guides available and now comes with expanded sections on the popular wines of California and Italy.
Download or read book American Wine written by Anthony Dias Blue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incomparable Anthony Dias Blue—the world's leading expert on American wine—has revised and updated his definitive reference on America's wine-producing regions and wines. Both entertaining and informative American Wine takes the risk out of choosing the best wines and the best values—with maps, winery profiles, comprehensive tasting notes, ratings, and recommendations on more than 5,000 wines. Anthony Dias Blue is universally praised for his unpretentious wine prose—often witty and always thoroughly original—and for the authoritativeness and strength of his opinions. American Wine sparkles with the same spirit and sharp critical perspective that make his newspaper and magazine columns and radio segments so popular. Blue introduces the reader to the wealth of American wines and wineries from their beginnings to the present and gives background on American grapes, wine production techniques, and his amusing hypotheses on primitive man's discovery of wine. The heart of the book is the comprehensive listing, arranged by region, of more than 900 wineries, each including a description of the owners/founders, and a list of important characteristics, including vintage, type, and price, of all the wines produced by the winery. Thorough descriptions of each wine are provided as well as guidelines as to when the wines are ready. Individual wines are given quality ratings; Blue's rating system is easy to use and clearly highlights special bargains. With the seasoned eye and palate that years of experience have given him, Blue has researched and written this compendium with gusto, and the first edition of American Wine has been a resounding success. Updated and revised, this volume is indispensable to anyone how buys wine.
Download or read book Wine Buyers Guide written by Clifton Fadiman and published by Harry N Abrams Incorporated. This book was released on 1977 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Wine Economics written by James Thornton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. wine industry is growing rapidly and wine consumption is an increasingly important part of American culture. American Wine Economics is intended for students of economics, wine professionals, and general readers who seek to gain a unified and systematic understanding of the economic organization of the wine trade. The wine industry possesses unique characteristics that make it interesting to study from an economic perspective. This volume delivers up-to-date information about complex attributes of wine; grape growing, wine production, and wine distribution activities; wine firms and consumers; grape and wine markets; and wine globalization. Thornton employs economic principles to explain how grape growers, wine producers, distributors, retailers, and consumers interact and influence the wine market. The volume includes a summary of findings and presents insights from the growing body of studies related to wine economics. Economic concepts, supplemented by numerous examples and anecdotes, are used to gain insight into wine firm behavior and the importance of contractual arrangements in the industry. Thornton also provides a detailed analysis of wine consumer behavior and what studies reveal about the factors that dictate wine-buying decisions.
Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide written by Robert M. Parker and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker's ratings on wine have had an enormous impact on consumers, retailers, importers, and producers. Parker dissects each of the world's wine regions, advises consumers about the best and worst producers and their products, and reveals the world's finest wine values for under $10. 19 maps. 2-color.
Download or read book Kevin Zraly s American Wine Guide written by Kevin Zraly and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering vineyards from all 50 states, this volume will quench readers' need for information and advice on this booming topic. A map of each state indicates the grape-growing areas and notable labels.
Download or read book WineWise written by Steven Kolpan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, revised and updated edition of the James Beard award-winning guide to wine from The Culinary Institute of America.
Download or read book Parker s Wine Bargains written by Robert M. Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, you can buy world-class wine on a budget. With Parker's Wine Bargains, America's most infl uential wine critic offers a guide to the world's best wines priced at $25 or less. Robert M. Parker, Jr., earned his international reputation and unprecedented influence as a dedicated consumer advocate -- if a wine isn't worth the money, he says so, regardless of the wine's pedigree. In Parker's Wine Bargains, for the first time he and his Wine Advocate team offer budget-minded wine buyers a handy guide to low-priced wines for both everyday drinking and special occasions. Organized by country, the book lists more than 1,500 quality wine producers, as well as abbreviated tasting notes for more than 3,000 of the best value wines. Chapters include an overview of each country's wine-producing regions, highlight up-and-coming or underappreciated regions, and detail when wines can be consumed. Also featuring a vintage guide and lists such as "the best of the best," Parker's Wine Bargains is an accessible guide from the expert the New York Times deems "the critic who matters most."
Download or read book Parker s Wine Buyer s Guide written by Robert Parker and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing readers to the world of wine, this work contains producer-by-producer reports.
Download or read book Andrea Immer Robinson s 2006 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone written by Andrea Immer-Robinson and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wine authority surveys wine professionals and consumers, and grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels.
Download or read book The New California Wine written by Jon Bonné and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California's "new generation," and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in recent years. The New California Wine is the untold story of the California wine industry: the young, innovative producers who are rewriting the rules of contemporary winemaking; their quest to express the uniqueness of California terroir; and the continuing battle to move the state away from the overly-technocratic, reactionary practices of its recent past. Jon Bonné writes from the front lines of the California wine revolution, where he has access to the fascinating stories, philosophies, and techniques of top producers. Part narrative, part authoritative purchasing reference, The New California Wine is a necessary addition to any wine lover's bookshelf.
