The founder of America’s most award-winning vineyard presents a fresh new science for grape growing in harmony with natural forces. Pioneering viticulture in Monterey, California, Douglas Meador called upon other sciences such as quantum physics to elucidate new hypotheses of hormonal control systems and plant sap circulation. Through 35 years of close observation of European and California vineyards, the author recommends sound practices for vineyard design, spacing, and orientation along with irrigation, pruning, and trellising to achieve optimum results for the terroir and grape variety.

The New Viticulture

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Meador, Douglas

Beverages & Wine

Board and Bench Publishing

The one bottle bar concept is pursued in this handy little bartender’s guide that features more than 350 different drinks with brandy as the base. Perfect for home or professional use, this guidebook features information on the history and lore of brandy, brandy selection and tasting tips, and recipes for cooking with brandy.

California Brandy Drinks

Hébert, Malcolm R.

World-renowned port writer Ben Howkins guides the reader through the fascinating history of the wine, from its origins through to the present day, and in particular examines the complex persona of the port drinker. Illustrated with Oliver Preston’s hilarious cartoons, historical and contemporary facts and numerous amusing anecdotes have been meticulously compiled to produce this hugely informative and entertaining tome. Real Men Drink Port also educates today’s wine consumer by exploring the serious side to getting the most pleasure from the wine, detailing fascinating facts about what goes on behind the scenes at the famous port firms, and guiding readers through the 11 essential lists of previously untold must-haves.

Real Men Drink Port...and Ladies do too!

Howkins, Ben

A fresh, comprehensive account of South African wines by two of the best known and respected South African wine authors, this volume is meticulously researched and is the official textbook of the Cape Wine Academy. Grape varieties and growing, interviews with winemakers, history and information on all the producers and regions, along with hundreds of full-color photographs and maps are included.

New World of Wine from the Cape of Good Hope: The Definitive Guide to the South African Wine Industry

HUGHES, Dave

Hands, Phyllis

Rum is one of the world’s oldest and bestselling spirits, often misunderstood, steeped in tradition, and with a colorful though not always honorable past. This is the first comprehensive, illustrated book to cover rum’s history, production, and full range of flavors. The pure rums are detailed by their island or country of origin with an explanation of the climatic differences and productions methods that provides each with unique character. A guide to tasting and evaluating the full range of rums by style and class is provided along with a section on spiced and blended rums and how they are made and marketed. The book concludes with a directory of 180 of the world’s most notable rums complete with statistics, tasting notes, label photos, and a rating from one to five stars. Beverage managers and bartenders, both professional and at home, will find this an essential buying guide and very entertaining reading.

BROOM, DAVE

Chilean wines have sparked tremendous interest throughout the world and their success is now explained by this account of the origins and development of an industry with a rich 450 years winemaking tradition. Chilean enologist and prolific wine-writer Rodrigo Alvarado searches out the major landmarks and keystones of the history of wine and humankind and weaves them into a highly-readable tale that affords us an in-depth understanding of Chile's long-standing tradition of wine. The text, beautifully illustrated by Chilean artist Raquel Echenique, is required reading for any wine lover looking to become a true connoisseur.

Chilean Wine: The Heritage

Arts & Photography

Alvarado, Rodrigo

Photography & Video

First published in 2002, this new edition to the standard guidebook for viniculturalists of frigid, northern climates, details the technical leaps of the last six years in growing and making quality cold-weather wines. The new and updated material in this edition include enhancing winter survival, evaluating your regional climate for grape growing, selecting a good vineyard site, retraining winter-injured vines, protecting vines from spring-frost injury, matching varieties with climate constraints, applying the lessons of warm winemaking to cold-weather grapes, equipping and stocking a home winery, recognizing spoilage problems and applying remedies, selecting yeast strains for specific wine styles, and blending methodology for cold-weather varieties. A revised and expanded appendix of cold weather grape varieties, organized by categories of relative hardiness, is also included.

Northern Winework: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Cold Climates

Plocher, Tom

Parke, Bob

How can a small winery possibly compete with the marketing of massive wine companies? How can it hope to capture the over-stimulated mindshare of the modern consumer? By being strategic. This completely revised and updated edition to the bestselling book puts the vast bank of wine marketing knowledge within reach of industry novices, and fresh, practical, and powerful strategies into the hands of veteran brand managers and marketing professionals. With 100 pages of new and expanded material, this book addresses such topics as importing and exporting; logistical management; marketing your tasting room and wine region as a prime tourist destination; how to generate greater retail sales; and how to grab the benefits, while avoiding the dangers, of social networking and viral marketing.

Wine Marketing & Sales: Success Strategies for a Saturated Market

Business & Money

Wagner, Paul

Thach, Liz

Olsen, Janeen

Marketing & Sales

The peculiarities of the wine trade make it a particularly profitable sector of agribusiness. That is if the right fundamentals support an informed business model. The Business of Winemaking puts every conceivable facet of running a winery into perspective, from writing business plans and acquiring financing to tax considerations and marketing. It is the definitive, single ready resource for winery managers, owners and investors. Abundantly illustrated and written in an understandable style, the book also addresses the technical rudiments of viticulture and enology as well as all of its related business correlates, and features comprehensive case studies from 20 winery sites from coast to coast.

The Business of Winemaking

Lamy, Jeffrey L.

Financial professional Mahesh Kumar documents how investment in fine wines over the past 20 years equal or exceed the return from stocks and bonds in this book. Based on the Nobel Prize–winning portfolio theory of Harvey Markovitz, the author provides a mean-variance model with expected return, standard deviations (risk), and correlations between asset returns. It includes extensive data and charts that document the performance for each investment for every five year period since 1983 and “blue chip” wines and vintages are discussed as are strategies for reduction of risk by buying the right wines at the right time.

Wine Investment for Portfolio Diversification: How Collecting Fine Wines Can Yield Greater Returns Than Stocks and Bonds

Kumar BA ACMA ATT CMC MBA, Mahesh

Investing

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