From Napa and Sonoma to Santa Barbara and the South Coast, this definitive guide takes a lush, in-depth look at California wine making, geography, and history. World Wine Guys Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen have gathered the most up-to-date information on the Golden State's wine-growing regions, from Mendocino to San Diego, including detailed listings of outstanding producers and their best vintages.

"Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns can influence the quality of a vintage. A vineyard owner and lifelong wine lover, the author encourages readers to discover wine by tasting, taking...

"Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world. For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic...

Falling for a bad boy once is forgivable. Twice would just be foolish. When Sabrina Leighton first offered her teenage innocence to gorgeous, tattooed Liam Donnelly, he humiliated her, then left town. The hurt still lingers. But so does that crazy spark. And if they have to work together to set up her family winery's new tasting room by Christmas, why not work him out of her system with a sizzling affair?

"Heather Hebert features the stories and stunning architecture of 25 California wineries, all built within the last ten years. Together, these wineries form an authentic expression of the winemakers' passion for the land and its heritage. They are an homage to California. Over the past twenty years, the California wine industry and its architecture transformed. As wine tourism has increased, California vintners have embraced the call to create splendid...

"Thrown together with his partner Caroline, Dr. Jeffrey Thomas, United States Navy, discovered the excitement of a distant world and the strength to overcome the most dangerous of obstacles. Scarred by his service in Afghanistan, the physician returns home where he seeks to escape his tragic past, eventually finding a new life on a hidden vineyard in Carmel Valley, California."--