Books on Wine, Food, Beer, Or Spirits
Andrea Immer's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone
by Andrea Immer, Anthony Giglio (Editor)
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.
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Australian Wine Vintages 2003
by Robin Bradley
This unique and famous annually up-dated guide to the wines of Australia has 12,000 entries covering 1,400 wines from 360 makers.
Available as a 372 page superbly printed 5 colour pocket-sized book.
The current edition is the 20th (2003) published in August 2002.
Each wine listed is ranked out of a maximum of 5 stars by author Robin Bradley (including some superb wines which earn the Gold Star status - among the great wines of the world), and each vintage of each wine is rated by the winemakers out of a maximum of 7.
The makers also stipulate the ideal year to drink each wine, and there is a dollar value calculated for every entry (except where the ideal time to have drunk the wine is prior to now).
Over 800,000 copies in all editions have been sold, an indication of how indispensable the Gold Book has become to wine lovers since the first edition in 1979.
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Blood is Thicker than Beaujolais
The Wine Lover's Mystery Series
by Tony Aspler
Tony Aspler is the creator of these vintage mystery novels in which Ezra Brant (an internationally known wine writer) solves an intriguing series of murders in three of the world's most renowned wine regions. Along the way, Brant tastes his way through the fascinating inner sanctum of the wine world, from exclusive award ceremonies to centuries-old and suspenseful wine cellars.
When Ezra Brant travels to France for the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau, he never imagines that he will stumble upon murder, fraud, and international intrigue – starting with a body tumbling through a cave-cellar trapdoor.
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Chow Venice: Savoring the Food and Wine of La Serenissima
by Ruth Edenbaum, Shannon Essa
The city of Venice is one of the most beautiful in the world, but a visit is too often marred by meals at bad restaurants with high prices, unscrupulous waiters, and tasteless food. With this book in hand, the traveller will find the best places to eat and drink in Venice, from a simple sandwich to pizza to an elegant four course meal, in places off the beaten track as well as steps away from the Piazza San Marco. The reader will learn how, when and what the Venetians eat and drink, where to get the best cichetti (Venetian bar snacks) and where to find restaurants and bars open after 10.00pm. In addition to forty restaurants and forty bars, there is a list of markets, speciality food stores and wine shops. Whether you are visiting Venice for three days, three weeks or three months, Chow! Venice is a guidebook that will prove invaluable.
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Death on the Douro
The Wine Lover's Mystery Series
by Tony Aspler
Tony Aspler is the creator of these vintage mystery novels in which Ezra Brant (an internationally known wine writer) solves an intriguing series of murders in three of the world's most renowned wine regions. Along the way, Brant tastes his way through the fascinating inner sanctum of the wine world, from exclusive award ceremonies to centuries-old and suspenseful wine cellars.
A series of bizarre, murderous accidents interferes with Ezra Brant's visit to an old friend's port farm and winery - a Quinta - and interrupts his research for an upcoming book. His research reveals the story of a man who drowned in the Douro in 1861 – an event Brant is convinced was murder. When murder strikes the Quinta, twin investigations into past and present murders come together in a shocking and unpredicable way.
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