This book offers an exciting new approach to help you choose from the astonishing range of wines available. It uses straightforward, easy-to-use groupings that are designed to reflect your own tastes: for example, crisp, fresh, dry whites or full-bodied reds. Everything you need is here to enable you to pinpoint all your favorite wines. Every major style of wine is explored in detail, each featuring a comprehensive list of wines with tasting notes & handy keys to flavors & price. Fully illustrated with beautiful color photographs, the book also explains the crucial roles of grape variety, vineyard practice & winemaking techniques.

Wine by Style: A Practical Guide to Choosing Wine by Flavour, Weight and Colour

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

FIONA BECKETT

Beverages & Wine

Random House (U.K.)

Taking color, style, and flavor as her starting points, Fiona Beckett adopts a fresh approach to exploring the major styles of wine and the variations within them. In addition to exploring key flavor characteristics, with clear, concise tasting notes for each wine, there is advice on storing and serving wine, how to spot faults, and how best to match wine with food.

Wine by Style: A Practical Guide to Choosing Wine by Flavor, Weight and Colour

Miller/Mitchell Beazley

Wine Uncorked

Mitchell Beazley

Cheese : Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying

Cooking by Ingredient

Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd.

Champagne and Sparkling Wine

Cooking with Wine

RYLAND, PETERS & SMALL

Explore the world of cheese with these 40 informative cards. Beginning with why cheese tasted like it does, the categories of cheese are described, from soft Brie to waxy Gouda. The pack includes invaluable bying, storing, and serving tips, plus advice on cooking with cheese and where to buy it. Most importantly, there is plenty of advice on eating cheese, from creating a great cheeseboard to fantastic recipes (from Parmesan and Butter Risotto to Mascarpone Ice Cream) and how to match cheese with wine.

A Taste of Cheese

In this inspirational new book, award-winning food and wine writer Fiona Beckett offers a wonderful range of menus for social occasions of all kinds, with recommendations for the ideal drinks to partner her mouthwatering recipes. A meal based on a spring visit to the farmers' market, a Provençal-style lunch, a romantic dinner for two, a summer picnic — these are just some of the menus to get your imagination going. You will find classic dishes such as Boeuf Bourguignon alongside intriguingly original recipes such as Pot-roast Brisket with Zinfandel, Roast Garlic and Pumpkin Polenta. There are also light, healthy options such as Little Seafood Jellies with White Wine and Dill, and Sicilian-spiced Seabass with Grilled Tomatoes and Baby Fennel. Indulgent delights include a 'Just Desserts' evening and a Summer Berry Tea; and Fiona's approach to cheese, creating cheeseboards to reflect the seasons, is just one of the fun new ways of eating suggested in this book. Wine puts the finishing touch to a meal, but it is not everyone's choice. By following Fiona's advice on beers and cocktails, coffees, teas and other non-alcoholic drinks you can make all guests feel equally welcome.

Food, Wine and Friends

This book contains over 100 recipes - from the deliciously decadent to the homely and comforting. Pies and tarts includes fool-proof recipes for classics such as Apple Pie and French Lemon Tart plus some new ideas to try like Chocolate and Cardamom Cream Tart. In crumbles, cobblers and puddings you'll find delicious recipes for warm desserts - try Blackberry and Apple Crumble, Summer Berry Cobbler, or Fig and Honey Croissant Pudding. Irresistible cakes and cheesecakes include Raspberry and Peach Scone Cake and Chocolate Marble Cheesecake.Deliciously light meringues and scouffles are perfect for entertaining - impress with Passion Fruit Pavlova, Raspberry and Brown Sugar Meringues, or Chocolate and Tia Maria Souffle. Heavenly Mousses, Jellies and trifles are a hit with adults and children alike. Treat them to Chocolate Orange Mousse, Rose and Rhubarb Fool, Sparkling Nectarine and Blueberry Jellies, or Strawberry Tiramis'. The chilled treats in frozen deserts are guaranteed to please. Try cherry fudge Ice Cream, Champagne Sorbet, or Mixed Berry Iced Souffles. Sauces, creams, and custards will add the finishing touch to all your desserts - recipes include Butterscotch Sauce, Mascarpone Cream, Real English Custard, and more.

Easy Desserts: Deliciously Indulgent Treats.

If you’ve ever tasted a food you love with a wine that matches it perfectly, you’ll know that the combination of the two can be even better than the food or wine on its own. But how to find those perfect pairings? The old “white wine with fish, red wine with meat” rule is now dated. Simple pointers such as “match the wine to the sauce, not the basic ingredient” and “take into account what else is on the plate” help demystify the subject and introduce you to a new world of taste sensations. In this indispensable book, more than 100 mouth-watering recipes are organised into superb themed menus, many of which are accompanied with recommendations for the ideal wine to partner them. Classic dishes sit alongside the intriguingly original, and light options are featured as well as more indulgent delights. Try any of the suggested matches such as Leek and Blue Cheese Quiche with Hazelnut Pastry with a dry white Pinot Blanc, Seared Tuna with Tomatoes and Gremolata with a chilled dry Rosé, Thai-style Beef with Tomato and Herb Salad with an aromatic Alsace Riesling, Butterflied Leg of Lamb with Cumin, Lemon and Garlic with a fruity, medium-bodied Shiraz, or a Wild Mushroom Risotto with a dry Italian Pinot Grigio. In addition, a section devoted to cheese and wine pairing offers sometimes surprising suggestions on what to drink with your favorite cheeses—such as pairing goat cheese with Sauvignon Blanc. Also included is a chapter on choosing wine by style, as well as practical tips on decanting, glassware, and equipment, and a useful glossary of wine terms—making this the perfect book for anyone who enjoys good food and wine.

Perfect Pairings: More than 100 delicious recipes with wine recommendations

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