The founder of America’s most award-winning vineyard presents a fresh new science for grape growing in harmony with natural forces. Pioneering viticulture in Monterey, California, Douglas Meador called upon other sciences such as quantum physics to elucidate new hypotheses of hormonal control systems and plant sap circulation. Through 35 years of close observation of European and California vineyards, the author recommends sound practices for vineyard design, spacing, and orientation along with irrigation, pruning, and trellising to achieve optimum results for the terroir and grape variety.

The New Viticulture

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Meador, Douglas

Beverages & Wine

Board and Bench Publishing

The one bottle bar concept is pursued in this handy little bartender’s guide that features more than 350 different drinks with brandy as the base. Perfect for home or professional use, this guidebook features information on the history and lore of brandy, brandy selection and tasting tips, and recipes for cooking with brandy.

California Brandy Drinks

Hébert, Malcolm R.

For over 20 years the most widely used wine textbook in higher education courses, The University Wine Course provides a 12-week program for learning about wine in-depth, from sensory evaluation to the science of viticulture and winemaking. Written and organized in a “user friendly” style, this book serves as a comprehensive-yet-easy resource for self-tutoring. Includes chapter exams and answers, study guides, lab exercises, final exams and extensive references and bibliography. Illustrated with appendixes on Wine &amp; Food, Label Reading, Do-It-Yourself Labs, Student tasting notes and more. Dr. Baldy is a USDA award-winning professor of sciences who has operated her own vineyard and winery and has taught wine appreciation for academic credits to university students for over 20 years. A Teacher’s Manual is available from the publisher.

The University Wine Course: A Wine Appreciation Text & Self Tutorial

Baldy Ph.D., Marian W.

Extensively researched by a resident grape grower and historian, this is the fascinating photographic tour of historic Napa wineries. The historical details and photographs of more than 65 wineries bring vision of the vibrant California wine industry of more than 100 years ago and the roots of many of today’s great vintners are exposed in these photos and historical vignettes.

Ghost Wineries of Napa Valley

Arts & Photography

Haynes, Irene W

Photography & Video

If you read wine reviews, you’re already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they’re smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what’s so colorfully described as a peacock’s tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you’re in for a treat, because these terms and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle, and utterly shock you . Welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wine speak: a world where words and wine intersect in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. The author, a lifelong lover of both wine and words, has compiled and organized this unique thesaurus of 36,975 wine tasting descriptors into 20 special collections extracted from 27 categories so you can locate exactly the right term or phrase to express yourself clearly or to understand others. May your path across the galaxy of wine be paved only with labels from the very best bottles on earth. Or, much more cautiously, with wines that could introduce you to angel pee, citronella, eastern European fruit soup, Godzilla, iodine, ladies’ underwear, mustard gas, old running shoes, rawhide, hot tar roads, bubblegum, sweaty saddles, crushed ants, kitchen drains, or even turpentine.

Wine Speak: A vinous thesaurus of (gasp!) 36,975 bizarre, erotic, funny, outrageous, poetic, silly and ugly wine tasting descriptors. Who knew?

Klem, Bernard

World-renowned port writer Ben Howkins guides the reader through the fascinating history of the wine, from its origins through to the present day, and in particular examines the complex persona of the port drinker. Illustrated with Oliver Preston’s hilarious cartoons, historical and contemporary facts and numerous amusing anecdotes have been meticulously compiled to produce this hugely informative and entertaining tome. Real Men Drink Port also educates today’s wine consumer by exploring the serious side to getting the most pleasure from the wine, detailing fascinating facts about what goes on behind the scenes at the famous port firms, and guiding readers through the 11 essential lists of previously untold must-haves.

Real Men Drink Port...and Ladies do too!

Howkins, Ben

This popular classic, which is based on the author’s personal experiences of building a wine cellar in his home and collecting wines for fun and investment, is now completely updated for the modern wine collector. All of the essential construction specifications to maintain the ideal temperature and humidity conditions for long-term storage of wine are provided for the home craftsman or professional contractor. Insulation, refrigeration, and passive systems are detailed and the construction of racks and storage bins is also explained with helpful illustrations. A practical guide to selecting, recording, tracking, and enjoying your wines at their peak performance is included.

How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar, Fourth Edition

Gold PhD, Richard M.

A fresh, comprehensive account of South African wines by two of the best known and respected South African wine authors, this volume is meticulously researched and is the official textbook of the Cape Wine Academy. Grape varieties and growing, interviews with winemakers, history and information on all the producers and regions, along with hundreds of full-color photographs and maps are included.

New World of Wine from the Cape of Good Hope: The Definitive Guide to the South African Wine Industry

HUGHES, Dave

Hands, Phyllis

Rum is one of the world’s oldest and bestselling spirits, often misunderstood, steeped in tradition, and with a colorful though not always honorable past. This is the first comprehensive, illustrated book to cover rum’s history, production, and full range of flavors. The pure rums are detailed by their island or country of origin with an explanation of the climatic differences and productions methods that provides each with unique character. A guide to tasting and evaluating the full range of rums by style and class is provided along with a section on spiced and blended rums and how they are made and marketed. The book concludes with a directory of 180 of the world’s most notable rums complete with statistics, tasting notes, label photos, and a rating from one to five stars. Beverage managers and bartenders, both professional and at home, will find this an essential buying guide and very entertaining reading.

BROOM, DAVE

Chilean wines have sparked tremendous interest throughout the world and their success is now explained by this account of the origins and development of an industry with a rich 450 years winemaking tradition. Chilean enologist and prolific wine-writer Rodrigo Alvarado searches out the major landmarks and keystones of the history of wine and humankind and weaves them into a highly-readable tale that affords us an in-depth understanding of Chile's long-standing tradition of wine. The text, beautifully illustrated by Chilean artist Raquel Echenique, is required reading for any wine lover looking to become a true connoisseur.

Chilean Wine: The Heritage

Alvarado, Rodrigo

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