This comprehensive overview reveals the secrets of one of the most enduring and soothing spirits—from the miraculous process of turning grapes into wine and how the shape of a glass affects its taste, to who decides if a wine is a winner and what makes it healthy to drink.

How to Drink a Glass of Wine (The Ginger Series)

Saker, John

Reference

Awa Press

Pinot Noir is a phenomenon a global cult has developed around it over the last couple of decades perhaps because its personality is hard to pin down. Often described as an iron fist in a velvet glove, its contradictions evoke a great deal of discussion, debate and passion.Cult membership rose steeply in the wake of the hit movie sideways, released in 2004. The Obsession of the film s hopelessly Pinot-struck leading male, Miles, rubbed off on cinemas audiences everywhere, inducing an upward swing in demand that came to be known as the Sideways effect. AC Nielsen reported that in the US alone, sales of Pinot Noir rose 45% during the year following the film s release. New Zealand is now a dominant player in the Pinot Noir world and the pace of this growth has been little short of staggering. In the space of a couple of decades the country became a south pacific stronghold for the grape and its attendant culture. Importantly, it showed that the local industry wasn t a one-trick pony, based around Marlborough s vast holding pens of Sauvignon Blanc. Pinot Noir Burgundy s demanding, delicate, revered red grape has added a new layer of sophistication to New Zealand wine. This is the story of the grape and its history in New Zealand, lavishly illustrated with beautiful photography by award-winner Aaron Mclean

Pinot Noir: The New Zealand Story

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Board & Bench Pub

With charming illustrations and a vibrant sense of fun, this elegant book will thrill and entertain wine lovers. It explains what the angel does with her share, how to spot "nobel rot," and what it means to engage in pigeage, among other terms and concepts most associated with vintners. Filled with witty descriptions of winemakers’ phrases and expressions, this illuminating guide to wine lingo is sophisticated, entertaining, and even educational.

Vinacular: A Wine Lover's A–Z

Kennedy, Scott

Basketball is one of the fastest growing sports in New Zealand' - NZ Institute of Sport Sports memoir with a big market Engaging story of how a kid from Wellington became NZ's first international pro basketball player Includes Saker's US trip to look at NBA life of NZ's latest and greatest ever basketball star, Steven Adams Author's book How to Drink a Glass of Wine is an Awa Press lifetime best-seller In this candid and beautifully written memoir, John Saker tells of his lifetime love affair with one of the world's most popular sports, how it changed his life, and the head-spinning moments when this 'minor' sport became the talk of New Zealand. From his early teens, when throwing hoops was a way of dealing with family tragedy, through his scholarship to a US university, career in France as New Zealand's first professional basketball player, and selection to the Tall Blacks, Saker canvasses both highs and lows of a sport where players such as Steven Adams today command multimillion dollar salaries.

Open Looks: My Life in Basketball

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

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How to Drink a Glass of Wine (The Ginger Series)

Pinot Noir: The New Zealand Story

Vinacular: A Wine Lover's A–Z

Open Looks: My Life in Basketball