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Windows On The World Complete Wine Course, signed by Kevin Zraly

 “When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best.” —Wall Street Journal

Kevin Zraly, America’s ultimate wine educator, demystifies every aspect of choosing, tasting, and enjoying wine. From the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the trail-blazing whites of Washington State and New Zealand, this essential volume features maps of each region, lush photographs, a wealth of infographics, best value bottles for each country, hundreds of labels to help you find the right wines, and guided tastings. It also includes the latest vintages to savor, comprehensive notes on food pairings, and answers to frequently asked questions. This revised and expanded edition features new classes on South America, Australia, and New Zealand, sparkling wine, and fortified wine as well as information on cutting-edge trends (rosé, Prosecco) and emerging wine regions, including Sicily and China. The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course gives you all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the best wines for you.

Red Wine: The Comprehensive Guide to the 50 Essential Varieties & Styles, signed by Kevin Zraly

Winner of the Gourmand International Award for Best Drinks Book!

Award-winning authors Kevin Zraly and the World Wine Guys tell the story of red wine, grape by grape, revealing the vast world of the 50 essential varieties and styles—from Agiorgitiko to Zinfandel—that you should know. All your favorites are here: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sangiovese, and Syrah, covered in fascinating, eye-opening detail. You’ll also discover little-known gems, such as Amarone, Baco Noir, Xinomavro, and Zweigelt. The helpful introduction explains how red wine grapes evolved and spread, how red wine is made, and how the winemaking process influences the taste of the final wine. Peppered with engaging facts and figures, each chapter profiles one variety or style, featuring comprehensive at-a-glance information that provides color and tasting notes, what to expect in the glass, suggested food pairings, and recommended wines at a variety of price points from bargain to splurge. In-depth essays offer capsule histories of each grape or style, including their origins, typical characteristics, popularity, and other notable countries that produce them. Winemakers and other industry experts appear in their own words alongside gorgeous photography that brings the regions, vineyards, grapes, and wines to vivid life.

The Ultimate Wine Companion: The Complete Guide to Understanding Wine by the World's Foremost Wine Authorities, signed by Kevin Zraly

Zraly is the master of wine education for energetically bringing to light, simplifying and making deliciously understandable even the most complex aspects of winedom.

The Wine Bible, signed by Karen MacNeil

“Astounding.” — Thomas Keller

“A masterpiece of wine writing.” — Kevin Zraly

The best-selling wine book in the U.S., THE WINE BIBLE is used and recommended by every top wine school, every hospitality management school, every wine diploma program, and the Court of Master Sommeliers in the U.S.

Like a lively course from an expert teacher, THE WINE BIBLE grounds the reader deeply in the fundamentals while layering on informative asides, tips, amusing anecdotes, definitions, glossaries, photos, maps, labels, and recommended bottles. Information in THE WINE BIBLE comes directly from Karen’s extensive primary research. She has visited every major wine region in the world and, for this second edition alone, tasted more than 10,000 wines.

Commemorative Edition of Wine Tasting by Michael Broadbent

First published in 1968, Michael Broadbent’s Wine Tasting laid the foundations of the modern wine industry—by providing a structured approach to the business of tasting and a common vocabulary by which different wines could be compared and rated. Fifty years later, Michael’s words still ring true.

Over the years, countless students of wine, enthusiastic amateurs and writers on the subject have come to regard Wine Tasting as their ‘bible’ –as the book by which all others are benchmarked, and the one they turn to again and again for advice. Now the Académie du Vin Library invites you to join them, by purchasing a special Commemorative Edition of the book that started it all.

This Commemorative Edition includes the 1975 edition of the original, along with these new and exciting additions:

• Updated with the latest vintages of wines from the original book
• Footnotes on how times have changed since 1975
• Expanded glossary of tasting terms
• Preface by Ian Harris, CEO of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust
• Personal tributes from Hugh Johnson OBE, Jancis Robinson OBE MW, Steven Spurrier, Gerard Basset OBE MW MS, and international wine auctioneers Paul Bowker and Fritz Hatton.
• Essay by Hugh Johnson on the history of wine writing though the ages
• An illustrated review of Michael’s work as a graphic artist by acclaimed museum designer Charles Marsden-Smedley
• A portrait of Michael as an accomplished musician by Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
• Recollections from Michael’s son Bartholomew and his grand-daughter Leaf on what it has been like to live with the man who helped transform the wine business into the thriving and lucrative global industry it is today