Learn to COOK - The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.22
EAN: 9780198609902
ISBN: 0198609906
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 840
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine offers almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine. Tracing the consumption and production from the ancient world to the present day, the Companion is a remarkable resource for gaining further appreciation for a beverage whose popularity has only increased with time.
Now exhaustively updated, this third edition incorporates the very latest international research to present over 400 new entries on topics ranging from globalization and the politics of wine to brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation. Hundreds of other entries have also undergone major revisions, including yeast, barrel alternatives, climate change, and virtually all wine regions. Useful lists and statistics are appended, including controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as wine production and consumption by country.
Illustrated with maps of every important wine region in the world, useful charts and diagrams, and stunning color photography, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in its many wider contexts - notably historical, cultural, geographic, and scientific - and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip, browse, and linger.
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Summary: Oxford Companion to Wine
Comment: Excellent book, contains just about anything anyone would want to know about wine from growing the grapes to describing the different varieties of wines.
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Summary: best wine resource bar none
Comment: This is a must have reference book for all wine enthusiasts, wine professionals, students of wine, and sommeliers.
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Summary: It's all there
Comment: I would recommend this for anyone interested in wine from the novice to Robert Parker (I'm betting he has a copy). Four friends have purchased this book after looking at mine.
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Summary: Great Encyclopedia
Comment: The Oxford Companion to Wine is a great encyclopedia for wine lovers. It covers a great breadth of topics, deeply enough to be informative, but in a short enough fashion to keep this under 1000 pages. Coverage includes wine growing regions, wines, vine varietals, wine making, barrel making, bacteria, and on and on.
One thing this is not - it's not a review/criticism of specific wines (which tend to become out of date too quickly to be useful in book form).
Highly recommended.
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