Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of New Zealand Wines is an extensive selection of Robert Giorgione's favourite wines from New Zealand. This personalised guide to New Zealand's wines has been embellished with useful tasting notes and information and various links to regional vineyards and wineries. It is a must-read for any wine lover.
The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of Drinks is an extensive selection of Robert Giorgione's favourite drink stories and wines from a his 25-year career as a top flight restaurant wine buyer, award-winning sommelier and wine consultant.
Robert Giorgione has been a highly-respected, award-winning sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the most high profile restaurants in the UK. He has travelled extensively around Spain and Portugal many times and has visited many of the region's vineyards, restaurants, markets and bodegas. Robert is passionate about Iberian food and drink, which includes its own regional produce and cultural diversity. An Epicurean Odyssey: A Road Trip Around The Iberian Peninsula is a personalised journey through food and drink embellished with many mouth-watering stories, recipes and drinks pairings.
An Epicurean Odyssey: Another Road Trip Around New Zealand is a personalised journey through food and wine embellished with many mouth-watering anecdotes, recipes and wine pairings.
An Epicurean Odyssey: More Sommelier Stories is award-winning sommelier Robert Giorgione's fifth book. It is a personalised journey in food and drink embellished with many mouth-watering anecdotes and delicious recipes and bespoke pairings.
Theobroma Cacao is my drug of choice is award-winning sommelier Robert Giorgione's sixth book. This highly personalised book features many mouthwatering anecdotes, childhood memories and tales of working as a pastry chef, restaurant wine buyer and sommelier. The book also contains many delicious recipes and bespoke wine pairings. A must-read for any avid wine lover and those who have a sweet tooth.
The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of New Zealand Wines is an extensive selection of award-winning sommelier, Robert Giorgione's favourite wines from New Zealand. This version is the revised edition and comprehensive guide to New Zealand wines, updated and published in Autumn 2023, providing useful information, a personalised wine scoring system, and tasting notes on New Zealand's most iconic regional vineyards and boutique wineries.
The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of New Zealand Wines is an extensive selection of award-winning sommelier, Robert Giorgione's favourite wines from New Zealand. This is the revised edition and comprehensive guide to New Zealand's wines, updated in summer 2022 with useful information, personalised wine scores and tasting notes on New Zealand's most iconic regional vineyards and boutique wineries. Robert Giorgione is a highly respected, award-winning sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the highest profile restaurants and retail establishments in the UK. In 2009, Robert Giorgione established his wine business consultancy and became a New Zealand Wine Brand Ambassador. In 2016, Robert opened his first independent wine merchant and retail outlet called Roving Sommelier Wines and online shop at rovingsommelier.com
This the memoir of Gerard Basset, OBE, the greatest wine professional of his generation. A school dropout, Gerard had to come to England to discover his passion. He threw himself into learning everything he could about wine, immersing himself in the world of Michelin star restaurants and beginning the steep climb to the top of the career ladder. Tasting Victory charts his business successes: co-founding and selling the innovative Hotel du Vin chain and founding, with his wife Nina, the much-loved Hotel TerraVina. It recounts in detail just how he managed to earn his unprecedented sequence of qualifications; Gerard is the first and only individual to hold the famously difficult Master of Wine qualification simultaneously with that of Master Sommelier and MBA in Wine Business. But it is his pursuit of the most important award of all that forms the core of this book – how, at his seventh attempt, and after a training regime that would shame most Olympic athletes, the fifty-three-year-old Gerard Basset was finally crowned the Best Sommelier of the World, and acknowledged as the greatest sommelier of his generation. Gerard's memoir is not only the story of how a champion is made, but also a record of how fine dining and hospitality changed in England, going from stale and unexciting to the world-leading sector it is today. Above all, it’s a book about succeeding against great odds: in typical fashion it was when he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus that Gerard responded by deciding to write Tasting Victory, which he completed shortly before his death in January 2019.
The world's most trusted annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 45th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. It provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. It reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a colour supplement: The Ten Best Things About Wine Right Now.
