Halliday Wine Companion 2016

Halliday Wine Companion 2016
Author: James Halliday
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Total Pages: 1287
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Wine and wine making
ISBN: 1743583397

Keenly anticipated each year by winemakers, collectors and wine lovers, the Wine Companion is recognised nationally as the industry benchmark. The 2016 edition has been completely revised to bring you up-to-the-minute information. In his inimitable style, James Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes, each with vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking as well as each wine’s closure, alcohol content and price. He provides information about wineries and winemakers, including vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The Wine Companion is an indispensable reference from the country’s leading wine authority and a must-have guide for anyone visiting a winegrowing region, or wanting to replenish their cellar or wine rack. FEATURING Full tasting notes for 3,859 wines Ratings, drink-to dates and prices for a further 2,629 wines 92 new wineries 1,317 winery profiles A list of the five-star wineries of each region Vintage rating charts for each region Regional index showing availability of food, accommodation, music events and cellar-door sales A full-colour map of the wine regions of Australia

Halliday Wine Companion 2021

Halliday Wine Companion 2021
Author: James Halliday
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 1170
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1743586973

For over thirty years James Halliday has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion is the go-to guide for wine ratings, regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia. The 2021 edition has been completely revised to bring readers up-to-the-minute information. In his inimitable style, Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes with points, price, value symbol and advice on best-by drinking, as well as each wine’s closure and alcohol content. He provides information about wineries and winemakers, including vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The perfect self-purchase or gift for the wine lover in your life.

Halliday Wine Companion 2022

Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Author: James Halliday
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781743797334

For over thirty years James Halliday has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognized as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion is the go-to guide for wine ratings, regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia. The 2022 edition has been completely revised to bring readers up-to-the-minute information. In his inimitable style, Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes with points, price, value symbol and advice on best-by drinking, as well as each wine's closure and alcohol content. He provides information about wineries and winemakers, including vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The perfect self-purchase or gift for the wine lover in your life.

Halliday Wine Companion 2020

Halliday Wine Companion 2020
Author: James Halliday
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 893
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1743586531

For over thirty years James Halliday has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine Companion is the go-to guide for wine ratings, regions, best varietals, winery reviews and a curated selection of the best wines in Australia. The 2020 edition has been completely revised to bring readers up-to-the-minute information. In his inimitable style, Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes with points, price, value symbol and advice on best-by drinking, as well as each wine’s closure and alcohol content. He provides information about wineries and winemakers, including vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The perfect self-purchase or gift for the wine lover in your life.

Halliday Wine Companion 2017

Halliday Wine Companion 2017
Author: James Halliday
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 1031
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Wine and wine making
ISBN: 1743584482

The Halliday Wine Companion is the guide to Australian wine. Written by respected wine authority, critic and vigneron James Halliday, the book is keenly anticipated by winemakers, collectors and wine lovers each year, and is recognised nationally as the industry benchmark.

The 2017 Halliday Wine Companion has been completely revised to bring you up-to-the-minute information, with over 9000 wines tasted for this edition. In his inimitable style, James Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes, each with vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking as well as each wine’s closure, alcohol content and price.

The Halliday Wine Companion also discusses wineries and winemakers, featuring exciting new wineries for 2017, and includes information on vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details. The Halliday Wine Companion is an indispensable reference from the country’s leading wine authority and a must-have guide for anyone visiting a winegrowing region, or wanting to replenish their cellar or wine rack.

Wine Hunter

Wine Hunter
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Publisher: Hachette Livre Australia
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The story of Maurice O Shea, Australia s best wine-maker.Maurice O'Shea was the son of an Irish father and a French mother. With that breeding, Maurice O'Shea could hardly have helped being a dreamer, a purist, a perfectionist, a lover of good wine, good food, good jokes and good people. His family bought a vineyard originally planted at Pokolbin, not far out of Cessnock, by two pioneers, Eben and Olly King. When Maurice took charge of the vineyard he gave it the name Mount Pleasant. and it was under that name that his wines became famous.At sixteen, Maurice left Riverview College, Sydney, and went on to study further at Lycee, Montpellier. From there he went to the Grignon Agricultural College, near Paris. After that, he did a viticultural science course at Montpellier University. Later he lectured at Montpellier in analytical chemistry. He came out of all this qualified as a mathematician, historian, wine chemist and botanist. Wine Hunter tells the story of this fascinating man with a unique way of life.

The Champagne Guide

The Champagne Guide
Author: Tyson Stelzer
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2015-11-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1743583672

The Champagne Guide tells you everything you need to know about how the exquisite French sparkling wine is grown and made, as well as information about what to buy, and how to store, serve and open it, all for less than the price of a bottle of Champagne! The 2016–2017 edition is fully updated, with all-new tasting notes and for the first time, a section on vintages has been included.

The Champagne Guide offers fully independent assessments, and frank commentary on the issues facing Champagne. The Champagne Hall of Honour ranks the best producers and the best cuvees at all price points. With extensive notes on each producer, information on cellar doors, family and producer histories and colour photography thoughout, this is the ultimate guide to bring this historic French region to your doorstep.

Tyson Stelzer is an award winning wine writer, television presenter and international speaker. He is the author of 15 wine books and a regular contributor to various wine magazines. Stelzer is the sparkling reviewer for the Halliday Wine Companion and has presented at wine conferences around the world. In 2015, he was the winner of the International Wine & Spirit Communicator of the Year.

A Year in the Life of Grange

A Year in the Life of Grange
Author: Philip White
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2013
Genre: Wine and wine making
ISBN: 9780987574008

A landmark in Australian wine publishing. Superbly crafted and uncompromisingly presented, this limited-edition collectors' item of original photographs and words lives the story of one of the world's most celebrated wines.

Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022

Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022
Author: Hugh Johnson
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1784727865

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.

Oz Clarke on Wine

Oz Clarke on Wine
Author: CLARKE
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913141189

- The essential book on the world's wine, whatever your level of expertise - Oz Clarke makes wine accessible and enjoyable - Full of all the facts you need as well as the stories you will love, authoritative and enjoyable - Beautifully produced in a new flexibound volume that makes it easy to read There have never been so many delicious and original wines in the world, and to discover them, all you need is a glass in your hand and Oz Clarke - the ideal wine companion. With his inimitable sense of adventure and fun, Oz explains how his fascination with flavor led him to abandon a promising acting career and follow his heart from Chablis to 'the lost Himalayan valleys of Yunnan' in pursuit new taste experiences and wine thrills. He found them! Oz Clarke On Wine takes us on a fast-paced, witty romp around the grape varieties key to the world's major wine styles, then explores the vineyards and regions where a vast trove of wine treasure lies waiting for discovery. Oz's passion for sharing, his deep wine knowledge, and his ability to conjure up the wine world's most beautiful landscapes, make this book the most unputdownable wine read this century. Includes: How Oz fell in love with wine: from his first dramatic encounter on a river-bank (aged three), to his post-performance tasting tales (after 'governing Argentina' as General Perón in the hit show Evita Oz explains how global warming affects what we drink today, and the new styles we can expect 'tomorrow' Organic and Biodynamic wines, Oz's favorite fizz The world's best-tasting wines, from Aconcagua to Okanagan, from Patagonia to east Yorkshire..., and wines to enjoy, from budget to blue chip... For sipping and savoring now. Or to age and enjoy in 10, 20, 30-years' time...