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A carafe of red /
Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for tho...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A carafe of red
- Storm in a champagne flute
- Cote retie and Condrieu: drinking with the ghosts of Pliny and Columella
- Cotes de Castillon: a Bordeaux wine reborn
- Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrive!
- Armagnac: the spirit of D'Artagnan
- Les chevaliers du Tastevin
- Jerez de la frontera: sherry and tapas
- Malmsey: a Greek classic
- Barbaresco: a glimpse of paradise
- Priorato: a heady success story
- School days on the Rhine
- Franconia: going for Baroque
- California cabernet sauvignon
- A morning tasting with Joe Heitz
- Beaulieu Vineyard's Georges de Latour cabernet sauvignon private reserve
- Santa Cruz mountains: ingenuity and tenacity
- Zinfandel: California's own
- Wine and food: the myth of a perfect match
- Chardonnay: buds, twigs, and clones
- Haut-Brion: a most particular taste
- Judgment of Paris: California's triumph
- A silent revolution: organic and biodynamic wines
- A memorable wine
- Missouri: return of the native
- Spreading the word: books on wine
- Simple pleasures: warm bread and hot chocolate.