This handy guide to the world of wine covers everything from tasting and storing wine to how to order wine in a restaurant. Perfect for the new oenophile or any reader looking to review wine basics.

This extensive encyclopedia includes 1,588 entries covering the world's leading wines, wine regions, wine producers, and grapes, and has over 600 color illustrations.

The grape variety or blend in a wine is the most influential factor in a wine's taste. This comprehensive illustrated guide explains and illuminates these qualities with descriptions of the 350 major grape varieties of the world.

Australian wine has become a major player in recent years, taking the American market by storm with its upfront fruit, clear flavors, and eminent drinkability. In this handy companion, internationally renowned wine writer Oz Clarke offers readers and travelers an extensive and entertaining look at one of the world's most exciting wine-producing countries. Here the wine lover will find the best Australian wines at every level, from everyday easy-drinking wines to truly great classic wines. With his signature wit and style, Oz shares personal anecdotes from his frequent trips to Australia, discusses key Australian grapes and key wine regions, profiles more than 160 of the country's top producers, and presents labels and tasting notes on more than a hundred wines. Major wine-growing areas are featured in full-color photographs, and top vineyard areas are illustrated with panoramic maps.

This updated and redesigned guide is the ultimate reference to the world's best wine - for buying, for estimating the value of your collection, for restaurant selection, for investing. This guide is fully cross-referenced for ease of use.

Knowing quite possibly more about fine vintage wines than anyone else alive, Michael Broadbent presents an unrivalled store of vinous anecdotes as well as an unsurpassed wine-tasting history.

The master of whisky crafts a travelogue through the distillery regions evoking the magic of Scotland's landscapes and its most famous exports - the great malt whiskies.

In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi-then fifty-two years old-was thrown out of his family's winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of the greatest success stories of American business. Today, the Robert Mondavi Winery is one of the most respected in the world, and Mondavi is the man who is most responsible for the worldwide recognition of American wine making, as well as changing America's palate for fine wine and fine food. In Harvests of Joy, Mondavi shares how, through his passion for excellence, he achieved this extraordinary position, one he reached not without pain and sacrifice. With invaluable insider tips on his approach to both wine making and to running a business, Mondavi's inspirational story is "a grand example of the fact that in America you can pretty much be, do, or accomplish, whatever you set out to." (Ventura County Star)