Willie Gluckstern Excerpt from The Wine Avenger OAK: The MSG of Wine Recipe for Chardonnay One 10,000-gallon fermentation tank 10,000 gallons of Chardonnay grape juice Two 25-pound burlap sacks of oak chips (extra-light, light, medium toast, extra-medium toast, heavy toast, or extra-heavy toast) 1...

Find the answers to curious questions associated with wine in this new book by England's doyenne of wine writers. A lively book for beginners and more experienced wine lovers--all will find much to savor.

The beautiful Napa Valley now has over 300 wineries, attracting over 10 million visitors per year. Now in its third edition, Antonia Allegra's revised and updated Napa Valley is an indispensible guide to this increasing popular destination. Napa Valley provides substantial new information on the...

The Complete, Easy-To-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More Than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions

Wine drinkers around the world refer to Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s Bordeaux simply as "The Bible."...

"An entertaining and witty guide to ordering, buying, and collecting wine -- from a trailblazing, mystique-busting, straight-talking wine expert."

Here is a comprehensive collection of the world's best words on wine. "I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved." Rose Kennedy "Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." Aristophanes "To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue." William F. Buckley "Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies." Bette Davis

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fifth edition of the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide has been eagerly awaited by seasoned collectors and occasional drinkers alike. No one wants to waste his or her precious dollars on an unenjoyable bottle, and with Parker's advice in hand, no one ever will.

Profiling hundreds of wines from every region, major vineyard, and appellation of France, French Wines is equally useful to the cultured connoisseur as well as the beginner who doesn't know Pouilly Fume from Pouilly Fuisse. Combining beautiful color photographs with an informative text by eminent wine export and author Robert Joseph, this guide offers an abundance of detailed information on each wine. Special features include a glossary of wine terminology; an extensive introductory section with information on viticulture, buying, tasting, storing, serving, and matching foods with wines. A tour itinerary and food specialty for each wine-producing region makes this a perfect accessory on a trip to France or to preparing a meal that makes you feel like you're there.

The nation's most popular wine primer is now even better. Wine experts Mary Ewing-Mulligan and Ed McCarthy have revised this friendly, unintimidating guide to cover all the latest developments in the wine world: which wine regions are now hot (and which are not), information on new rules for shipping wine and the new vogue for screw-caps, and, of course, updates on vintages, producers, and wine resources on the Web.