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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodification, and the "revenge of the terroirists" help determine what's in your wine glass - and how wine's triple crisis threatens the soul of wine"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. Wine and the wine business are at a critical crossroad today, transformed by three powerful forces. Veseth begins with the first force, globalization, which is shifting the center of the wine world as global wine markets provide enthusiasts with...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
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In the USA Today–bestselling author’s “addictive second Karen Vail thriller,” the FBI profiler tracks a serial killer through California wine country (Publishers Weekly).
In this follow-up to the standout bestseller The 7th Victim, Karen Vail ventures to Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims’ windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves. But when the Crush Killer...
In this follow-up to the standout bestseller The 7th Victim, Karen Vail ventures to Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims’ windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves. But when the Crush Killer...
11) Beautiful
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring the entire BEAUTIFUL series cast for one final hurrah! A FREE-SPIRITED GIRL IN NEED OF A BREAK. A MAN WEIGHED DOWN BY RESPONSIBILITY. A ROAD TRIP VACATION WHERE ALL BETS ARE OFF. OH, AND A LOT OF WINE. After walking in on her boyfriend shagging another girl in their place, Pippa Bay Cox ditches London for the States to go on a drunken road trip with Ruby Miller and some of her Beautiful friends. Scaling the career ladder is the...
12) Nose
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Egotistic wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones gives a bottle of Cabernet the highest score on his self-devised scale, but the bottle's unknown provenance leads to problems ranging from compromised positions in a fermentation tank and an internal family squabble becoming a public scandal.
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, there were 125 wineries in eastern North America. By 2013, there were more than 2,400. How and why the eastern United States and Canada became a major wine region of the world is the subject of this history. Unlike winemakers in California with its Mediterranean climate, the pioneers who founded the industry after Prohibition-1933 in the United States and 1927 in Ontario-had to overcome natural obstacles such as subzero cold in winter and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A James Beard Award winner for wine journalism offers this insightful and entertaining memoir in vignettes that doubles as a love letter to wine and a lifelong coming-of-age story in which she discusses the hurdles she has overcome, suffusing each with love, romance, pain, joy and love."--
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common--old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Regan, skeptical about love after learning that her fiancé is already married, moves with her daughter to Napa for her dream job, but when the scorned wife's brother tries to drive her from town, sparks begin to fly between the two.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tracing the history of California's world of wine and how passion for the liquid some have called "the elixir of the gods" has driven people to extremes, a riveting narrative exposes the violent and obsessive world underneath the oh-so-laid-back label of the California wine trade.
"On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of...