Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide
Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780151009183

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An updated edition of the guide tothe best wines in the world by two of the world's most knowledgeable and entertaining wine experts. This handsome, updated edition of Clarke & Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide is the ultimate ready-reference to the world's best wine-for buying, for estimating the value of your collection, for restaurant selection, for investing. Organized by wine region with an alphabetical list of the top wine names and leading producers in every major wine-producing country, the guide is fully cross-referenced for ease of use. In this completely redesigned elegant and enduring format, these two expert authors survey the world of wine and bring you its best-not necessarily the famous Bordeaux growths, but the best wine from around the globe.

Oz Clarke's New Wine Atlas
Oz Clarke's New Wine Atlas

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780151009138

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Through its unique cartography--more than 75 spectacular, hand-painted panoramic maps--and Clarke's lively and opinionated prose, this revolutionary atlas illustrates and explains the vital connections between the land, the winemaker, and the wine. Full color. Maps & photos.

WineSpeak
WineSpeak

Author: Bernard Klem

Publisher: Board and Bench Publishing

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0980064805

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If you read wine reviews, you're already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they're smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what's so colorfully described as a peacock's tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you're in for a treat, because these terms and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle, and utterly shock you . Welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wine speak: a world where words and wine intersect in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. The author, a lifelong lover of both wine and words, has compiled and organized this unique thesaurus of 36,975 wine tasting descriptors into 20 special collections extracted from 27 categories so you can locate exactly the right term or phrase to express yourself clearly or to understand others. May your path across the galaxy of wine be paved only with labels from the very best bottles on earth. Or, much more cautiously, with wines that could introduce you to angel pee, citronella, eastern European fruit soup, Godzilla, iodine, ladies' underwear, mustard gas, old running shoes, rawhide, hot tar roads, bubblegum, sweaty saddles, crushed ants, kitchen drains, or even turpentine.

Oz Clarke's Bordeaux
Oz Clarke's Bordeaux

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780151013005

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Bordeaux has always been the center of attention in the wine world, with some of the greatest wines, the most historic châteaux, and the highest level of glamour and prestige. And, despite increasing competition from new classic wine areas around the world, it still accounts for more than 90 percent of global wine futures and auction markets.In his trademark A-to-Z format, Oz profiles more than three hundred of Bordeaux's most important châteaux as well as their second wines and discount brands, and recommends and describes hundreds of other châteaux. With color photos, wine labels, charts, and maps throughout, this volume covers each of Bordeaux's subregions in sumptuous detail--fully exploring the area's history, geography, soils, and grape varieties.Oz is at his witty, incisive best on this region, which he has both championed and challenged for years. With his vivid descriptions of the area as well as his knowledge of classic and best-value wines, this is an essential book for all lovers of Bordeaux wine.

Red & White
Red & White

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1408710153

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ANDRE SIMON AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON DRINK BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES BEARD AWARD With Red & White, Oz Clarke has reinvented wine writing. This is a book to read for pleasure, rather than merely refer to. Combining fast-paced witty memoir with passionately opinionated guide, Oz pops the cork on his life-long love affair with wine. The best loved wine communicator of our time, Oz Clarke is the guest you want at your table, the person to select the wine, and the ideal drinking companion. He explains how, why & where he fell in love with wine; he explains the essentials of how wine is grown and made today; then takes you into the world's wine regions and introduces you to the wines he loves. Oz reveals how he tastes wine and how you can enjoy wine whatever the budget. He covers with equal care & attention all categories of wine, from the blue-chip to the most affordable. With Red & White, you are in the hands of the best-informed and the most inspirational guide, and you will pick up, without even trying, a wealth of knowledge that Oz is bursting to share with you. With climate change and the move to organic & sustainable practices, wine is evolving faster than ever before. And hundreds of local grape varieties, until recently facing extinction, are also being rediscovered. There have never been so many brilliant & original wines. To discover them, all you need is a glass in your hand, a sense of adventure, and Oz's Red & White as your companion & inspiration!

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 1999
Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 1999

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780151004300

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Amateur and connoisseur alike can be overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite variety of wine today-unless they have Oz Clarke in their pocket. The clearest, most complete, most affordable, and most enjoyable pocket guide to every wine in the world, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide instantly creates order out of chaos, in the restaurant or the wine shop, and does do with an irrestible enthusiasm.

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2002
Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2002

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780151009121

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Featuring an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, this pocket guide has new features including a series of intriguing personal lists--Oz's Favorites, Best-Kept Secrets, Producers to Watch--and an expanded glossary of wine terms. 2-color photos throughout.

Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine
Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine

Author: Oz Clarke

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780156030236

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An introduction to the world of wine by the acclaimed wine writer covers the basics of grapes, regions, and vintages, and ends his tour on the wine rack with valuable advice on how to choose the best bottle.