Beverages

In this updated, beginner-friendly guide from Brew Your Own, you'll find the best homebrew techniques, tips, and new recipes.

Wine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodification, and the revenge of the terroirists help determine what's in your wine ...glass - and how wine's triple crisis threatens the soul of wine.
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Journey into the world of wild fermented drinks and magical brews.

Villa Maria is New Zealand's largest privately-owned wine company. That's a very meaningful fact. Over the last 15 years, the New Zealand industry has increasingly globalised, as internatioal corporates take a dominant role in our wine production. Villa Maria has always fiercely ...guarded its independence as a family company, an independence that can be tracked back to the day in 1961 when a young George Fistonich told his Croatian-immigrant father, Andrija, that he wanted to give up the construction industry and take over the tiny family winery. In the 50 years since, he has turned a cottage business that turned out relatively indifferent table and fortified wines into a widely admired company that produces some of this country's very best wines (for which it has won a multitude of local and international awards), has considerable landholdings, is a major exporter, an energetic sponsor, and has an innovative culture. Its not for nothing that George Fistonich has won the coveted Ernst andamp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, was knighted, and, in 2011, one of the international wine industry's leading awards. This book traces the arc of Fistonich's life, from his hard-working Mangere childhood to his self-taught marketing audacity, from having to save his beloved business from receivership to taking big bets on the future.What emerges is the portrait of a determined,savvy and visionary man whose life in wine tracks the history of the modern New Zealand wine industry.
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In the paperback version of Green Kitchen Smoothies, bestselling authors David and Luise share their favourite smoothie recipes, as well as some new and exciting ideas.