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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the wine market, its producers, and how consumers interact with a sensory-oriented product. Traditionally, sensory attributes of interacting with wine rely on the face-to-face method of delivery, whereby consumers interpret wine products by the perceptions of sight, smell, and taste to determine if they like a specific product. Mandatory shutdowns and pandemic restrictions have challenged traditional...
23) Summer in Napa
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Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Six months after leaving her cheating husband Jeff and returning home to California to start over, Lexi Moreau finds herself attracted to Jeff's best friend Marco, whose family's wine business is dependent on a deal with her ex-husband.
Author
Publisher
American Palate, a division of The History Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Arizona's flourishing wine industry may surprise those who think of the Grand Canyon State as a desert landscape dotted with cacti. From the high-country vineyards of the Verde Valley to the rolling plateaus of Sonoita and Willcox, pioneering winemakers are producing nationally acclaimed, award-winning wines. While the 1970s are recognized as launching the modern-day industry, Arizona's viticulture dates back much further. The Spanish and Jesuit missionaries...
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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...
Author
Publisher
HarperStudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This study explores the need for and sets forth a proposal strategy for sustainability for the wine industry (including grape growing and winemaking) in the Leelanau Michigan Approved Viticulture Area. The document utilizing a case study design begins by summarizing the area's historical background, stakeholders, industry life cycle and business environments and reviews current environmental and social elements as well as addresses the current status...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age. Called everything from the Patti Smith to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of natural wines, Alice Feiring is a special sort of wine writer--the kind who dares to disagree with wine "experts," and who believes wholeheartedly that the best wine writing is about life. To Fall in...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Conversational and accessible to everyone, this colorfully illustrated book embraces almost every imaginable area of the sciences, from microbiology and ecology (for an understanding of what creates this complex beverage) to physiology and neurobiology (for insight into the effects of wine on the mind and body). The authors draw on physics, chemistry, biochemistry, evolution, and climatology, and they expand the discussion to include insights from...
Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
Ã2006.
Language
English
Description
"In the beginning, for me, winemaking was a romanticized notion of putting grape juice into a barrel and allowing time to perform its magic as you sat on the veranda watching the sunset on a Tuscan landscape. For some small wineries, this notion might still ring true, but for the majority of wineries commercially producing quality wines, the reality of winemaking is far more complex. The persistent evolution of the wine industry demands continual...
Author
Publisher
American Palate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Texas's 350-year wine story is still reaching its savory peak. Spanish colonists may have come to the state to spread Christianity, but under visionary Father Fray Garcia, they stayed and raised grapes. Later immigrants brought their own burgundy tastes of home, creating a unique wine country. When a North American pest threatened European vines, it was Texan scientist T.V. Munson who helped save the industry overseas. When Prohibition loomed stateside,...
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"The Search for Good Wine is a highly entertaining and informative book on all aspects of wine and its consumption by John Hailman. Hailman explores the wine-drinking experiences and tastes of famous wine lovers from jolly Ben Franklin and the surprisingly enthusiastic George Washington to Julius Caesar, Sherlock Holmes, and Ernest Hemingway among numerous other famous figures. Hailman also recounts in fascinating detail the exotic life of the founder...
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Improving Sustainable Practices in Viticulture and Enology provides an up-to-date view on the major issues concerning the sustainability of the wine supply chain. The book describes problems and solutions on the use of inputs (e.g., water, energy) and emphasizes the roles and limitations of implementing circularity in the sector. It identifies some of the most relevant metrics while pinpointing the most critical issues concerning the environmental...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
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English
Description
"Climate change is altering how wines are spirits are produced around the world. From unimaginably destructive fires in California to historically unprecedented deep-freezes in Texas and rising temperatures that are lifting England to the forefront of the world of sparkling wine, these are the stories of eight regions confronting it all head on"--
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Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A wine expert takes readers on a tour of the farmers, vineyards, technology, journalism, consumer trends, and trade wars that make the wine business what it is today, introducing the obsessives and eccentrics who populate the industry.
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Publisher
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English
Description
Union launched her career with roles in iconic '90s movies. When she revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault, she urged compassion for victims of sexual violence. In this moving collection of essays, Union tells astonishingly personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame. She discusses her experiences with bullying, beauty standards, and competition between women in Hollywood; growing up in white California...
39) About wine
Author
Publisher
Thompson Delmar Learning
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"About Wine distinguishes itself as a highly visual, accessible, and motivating resource. About Wine is essential to anyone responsible for managing wine within the hospitality industry. Key topics include selling and serving wine, developing and managing a wine list, and purchasing and cellaring wine. In addition, practical information on the fundamentals of wine, the different grape varietals, winemaking, and tasting and evaluating wine provide...
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes the fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting Americans. Real Food/Fake Food brings readers into the unregulated food industry, revealing the alarming truth: What we think we're eating...
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