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Piemonte, home to the great wines of Barolo and Barbaresco, also has a fascinating range of lesser-known wines. Following chapters on history, geography, varieties and climate, Way guides us through the region with profiles of key producers.

The Classic Wine Library is home to some of the world's best-informed writing on wine. This anthology gathers together selected essays from nearly 30 titles, published over the last 10 years. The chapters cover topics essential to understanding the wines of a range of regions, including their history, wine growing, winemaking and signature wines.

Madeira considers the history and geography of the islands, viticulture and winemaking. A guide to the current producers and their typical wines follows, along with a chapter on the shippers, with tasting notes on more than 400 wines.

Grape vines are not native to Australia, but this is a country with a wine history dating back almost 250 years, to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. The first commercial wine region, the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, was created a mere 40 years later, and by as early as the 1850s small amounts of wine were being exported to the UK. In the modern era, Australian wine became known for fortified wine styles modelled on Port and Sherry....

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Sparkling wine has delighted humanity for nearly five-hundred years. It has become essential at celebratory meals, a toast to new marriages, new babies, new jobs, and is even used to launch ships, but there's more to it than the fizzy and festive. In Fizz!, Anthony Rose takes an in-depth look at sparkling wines of the world, exploring how and where they are made, and why they are so pleasing to drink.The first part of Fizz! explores the histor...

This IT cookbook uses the analogy of a restaurant to describe how organisations can create and operate a 5-star business with all the IT ingredients necessary to support the establishment and the CIO as Master Chef. Each chapter contains an overview of a business issue and 3 recipes for innovation success based on interviews with influential CIOs.

Wines from Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage and Châteauneuf-du-Pape have made the Rhône Valley world famous. This may be a classic wine region, but as Matt Walls reveals in Wines of the Rhône that doesn't mean it is set in its ways. Change here is not only driven by innovations in winemaking and fashions in wine, it is also an essential response to a rapidly shifting climate, which has seen temperatures rise significantly over the last 40 years and extre...

The epithet 'hidden treasure' may be overused but it can truly be applied to the often-overlooked wine region of Roussillon. Tucked into the southernmost corner of France between the Pyrenees, the Corbières massif and the Mediterranean, it is often considered as an adjunct to the Languedoc. However, Roussillon, which has been part of France for little more than 350 years, is quite different culturally, topographically and climatically from its...

Richard Mayson first visited Portugal as a child, nearly fifty years ago. He immediately fell in love with the country, living there and revisiting it many times over the ensuing half century. During those years Portugal has changed greatly, as have its wines. The cooperatives and wine merchants of the 1970s produced patriotically Portuguese blended wines with little sense of place. Dão, Bairrada and Vinho Verde all existed as demarcated regio...

This book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on Portuguese wine, examines the terroirs that make this small but varied country so unique. It divides Portugal into four areas: Atlantic, Mountain, the Plains and the Islands. Within these there are detailed descriptions of the wine regions, the growers and the wines they produce.

Few would associate America's frontier states with wine. And yet it is here that the country's first Vitis vinifera vines were planted. Since the 1970s the wine industries of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado have evolved. This book takes each state in turn, focusing on growing conditions, key issues and prominent producers.

Wines of the Rhone is a guide to one of the great French wine regions. It covers all the appellations of the Rhone, featuring interviews with some of the most respected winemakers of the region, tackling the issues facing the Rhone's wines with clarity and authority, in a readable and entertaining package.

This is the first book on the wines of Roussillon. George takes in the history and current status of the region before considering its climate and terrain, grape varieties, appellations and wine styles and recent trends in growing and making. The book contains profiles of the main producers in the region.

Few would associate America's frontier states with wine. And yet it is here that the country's first Vitis vinifera vines are said to have been planted. Since the 1970s the wine industries of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado have evolved. This book takes each state in turn, focusing on growing conditions, key issues and prominent producers.

This book analyses South Africa's wine industry and its key geological, geographical, and climatic conditions. It describes the major grape varieties and wine styles. A section on the challenges the industry faces is followed by an inspection of the major growing areas of South Africa and the most important producers operating in each one.

Burton's life of Keith Douglas, the most important poet of the Second World War, is the first for fifty years. Douglas had a short but eventful life. Born in 1920 in Kent, he was awarded an Open Exhibition to Merton College, Oxford. He spent most of the war in the desert campaign and died in action in Normandy shortly after the D-Day Landings.

A unique collaboration between a senior Naga journalist and an eminent British historian looking at Naga involvement in the Second World War after Japanese and British forces converged on their land. The devastating battle lasted only a few months but in that time the Nagas played a key part in what was recently voted Britain's greatest battle.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems is a 300-year-old meditation on deception by an unknown Chinese scholar. With modern business case studies, Peter Taylor transforms this ancient text into a practical guide for the twenty-first century business executive. Taylor's recasting of the thirty-six stratagems shows how we can defeat our opponents in business.