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  1. The World of Fine Wine Issue 21
    The World of Fine Wine Issue 21
    ISSUE 21 - Now only $50\n\nQuality and change in Champagne: Nicolas Faith\nA New Dawn- Riesling in Australia: Huon Hooke \nBrandy de Jerez Bruce Schoenfeld \nLaying Down: Barbaresco 2004\nSavor: New World Pinot Noir\nSavor: Cava\nMatchmaker: Why Wine? Francis Percival \nVin Voyage - Israel: Anthea Gerrie \nA la Volee - Aging Gracefully: Tom Stevenson\nClassification and Wine Styles: Ophelia Deroy\nLudovico Antinori: Margaret Rand\nDomaine Tempier: James Lawther MW\nChateau Haut-Brion: Michael Schuster\nPainshill and English Wine: James Clarke\nThe Viticulturist - Virginia Lambrix: Stephen Brook \nThe Search for Calabria's True Identity: Nicolas Belfrage MW \nWas Pliny the First Wine Critic? Professor Kathleen Burk \nThe Wine Photography of Richard Humphries: James Halliday \nIs a Sip Worth a Thousand Words? Professor Barry C Smith
  2. Alquimie Issue 1
    Alquimie Issue 1

    A written emulsion of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, the publication covers wine, beer, spirits, bitters, coffees and other solutions of interest; exploring the liquids themselves - their origins and stories. Alquimie makes premium beverages accessible and appealing to consumers and specialists alike.

    Like good company and fine food, Alquimie is an invaluable accompaniment to life and style. The magazine is carefully crafted with curated imagery and thoughtful design paying homage to the written word. Presenting a portmanteau of opinion and objectivity, the publication simplifies the complexities of beverage culture without pretention. The result is a timeless object. ALQUIMIE

  3. Alquimie Edition 2
    Alquimie Edition 2

    A written emulsion of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, the publication covers wine, beer, spirits, bitters, coffees and other solutions of interest; exploring the liquids themselves - their origins and stories. Alquimie makes premium beverages accessible and appealing to consumers and specialists alike.

    Like good company and fine food, Alquimie is an invaluable accompaniment to life and style. The magazine is carefully crafted with curated imagery and thoughtful design paying homage to the written word. Presenting a portmanteau of opinion and objectivity, the publication simplifies the complexities of beverage culture without pretention. The result is a timeless object. ALQUIMIE

     

  4. The Jade Lily - by Kirsty Manning
    The Jade Lily - by Kirsty Manning

    This is a rich, sensual, and evocative novel, fragrant with the smell of crushed herbs and flowers, and haunted by the high cost that women must sometimes pay to find both love and their vocation.' Kate Forsyth

    '...compelling, passionate and admirable.' Australian Women's Weekly

    In 2016, fleeing London with a broken heart, Alexandra returns to Australia to be with her grandparents, Romy and Wilhelm, when her grandfather is dying. With only weeks left together, her grandparents begin to reveal the family mysteries they have kept secret for more than half a century.

    In 1939, two young girls meet in Shanghai, the 'Paris of the East': beautiful local Li and Viennese refugee Romy form a fierce friendship. But the deepening shadows of World War Two fall over the women as Li and Romy slip between the city's glamorous French Concession and the desperate Shanghai Ghetto. Eventually, they are forced separate ways as Romy doubts Li's loyalties.

    After Wilhelm dies, Alexandra flies to Shanghai, determined to trace her grandparents' past. As she peels back the layers of their hidden lives, she begins to question everything she knows about her family - and herself.

    A gorgeously told tale of female friendship, the price of love, and the power of hardship and courage to shape us all.

  5. Chianti Classico: The Atlas of the Vineyards and UGAs by Alessandro Masnaghetti
    Chianti Classico: The Atlas of the Vineyards and UGAs by Alessandro Masnaghetti
    This magnum opus is every bit as Walter says: a stunning work. Large, hardback and written in both Italian and English, it starts with an introduction: to Tuscany, to Chianti Classico in particular ('referring to Chianti Classico as Chianti … is equivalent to commercial suicide'), vineyard and production stats, wine laws, varieties. He also delves into the origin of Supertuscans, before digging into the real meat and marrow of the book.

    So he starts broad, with an overview and an elegant map of the 11 UGAs, the wine styles of each and a vintage report. I particularly liked the infographic depicting the wine styles. One of the key sections is the 'generalities' of Chianti Classico territory, which, in six beautifully detailed (and, in Masnaghetti signature style, exquisitely crisp and clear) maps, covers the topography, subregional mean-annual temperature differences and underlying geology. Soil-and-rock terroir nuts will be very happy to know that this chapter goes into the geology and soils in quite some depth.

    It's not just the maps that are a joy to read. Masnaghetti writes beautifully and in a way that I found unexpectedly, charmingly intimate, and very modest. It's almost as if he's by your side, chatting to you as he explains how the maps works, what his thinking was behind some of his decisions…

    All I can do, at this point, is reiterate Walter's words. It is indeed a stunning work, without parallel - and if no one is buying it for you, buy it for yourself. TAMLYN CURRY, Jancisrobinson.com

  6. On California: Wine Tales from The Golden State
    On California: Wine Tales from The Golden State
    "From food to terroir, glamour to grapes, climate to catastrophe, critics and alcohol, On California covers the full gamut." TAMLYN CURRIN, jancisrobinson.com

    An expertly curated collection of essays written over 50 years between 1971 and 2021, On California captures the essence of the state's spectacular wine country. Across 39 articles by 35 authors, it delves into the hopes, fears and dreams of the 18th-century pioneers who first shaped it, and what motivates 21st-century visionaries who currently pave the way. It charts the triumph over phylloxera and Prohibition, the mighty influence of the Pacific, and the plus points of a seismic hot zone. Then how, at the whim of one modest English wine merchant, a simple blind tasting in 1976 made the world sit up and notice the wines this extraordinary region was creating.

    California wine boffins, whizz-kids and scientists tell their stories on its pages-some via precious archive material, others through their thoughts mid-pandemic. We particularly enjoyed the articles from William Kelley ("Nowhere has the definition of ripeness been explored more thoroughly, or pushed to greater extremes, than in California's Napa Valley") and Randall Grahm's penetrating essay on sustainability and a future made uncertain by climate change. But between the covers, there is no dead weight.
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  7. On Champagne: A Tapestry of Tales to Celebrate the Greatest Sparkling Wine of All
    On Champagne: A Tapestry of Tales to Celebrate the Greatest Sparkling Wine of All
    "Sorry to add to the shopping list, but if you love Champagne, this is another must-buy. And apologies for the terrible pun, but it is genuinely true - this book fizzes with wonderful stuff." TAMLYN CURRIN, jancisrobinson.com

    Hardback, 279 pages, published 2022

    On Champagne brings together a compendium of thoughts, opinions and conclusions of the world's finest Champagne writers under a single roof. Eight sections divide 41 essays into themes including the brands, styles, history (the 'Eleven eras of champagne'), terroir, innovation and the future (from Sherman tanks to spaceships). Complied and edited by the richly talented Susan Keevil, the essays-written between 1882 and 2022-weave together a tapestry of tales presenting the reader with a vivid and multi-layered collage of the region.

    It's a journey that starts and ends with capturing that sparkle in a bottle and, along the way, tutors us with the nuances of its chalky terrain, the determination of rebels from Ambonnay to Avize, and the mystery of a Champagne cellar under the sea. We meet the pioneers who created the great Champagnes of the past and the personalities who are greening this landscape, nurturing it through climate change to shape the exquisite Champagnes of the future. Bringing levity, the compendium's heavyweight narrative is punctuated by historical essays such as Evelyn Waugh's Fizz, Bubbly, Pop in the Swinging Sixties ("Gruesome attempts have been made in New Jersey to produce an equivalent"). Simply, On Champagne is an essential volume for every Champagne lover's bookshelf.

    Contributors include Tom Stevenson, Essi Avellan MW, Hugh Johnson, Serena Sutcliffe MW, Peter Liem, Tyson Stelzer, Andrew Jefford and Robert Walters, with the 'modern era' welcomed in by Evelyn Waugh
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