BOOKS ON WINE EVENING: Famed Women Winemakers and Wine Authors Hold a Virtual Tasting (Order wines by 8/3)

Saint Helena, CA — Napa Valley Wine Library’s first virtual “Books on Wine” program will feature authors Lucia Albino Gilbert and John H Gilbert and their book, Women Winemakers: Personal Odysseys, on Thursday, August 13 at 5:30 pm (PST) via Zoom. The authors will be joined by five of the nearly 150 winemakers interviewed for their…

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Vintage Eve 7/2017: Vin Decanter, A Book Review for Wine 101ers

Vin Decanter is a book for the novice wine consumer. Written and presented in an accessible way to reduce the complexity of the subject…Chris Madden is a teacher with over twenty-five years experience of working in education. Post-graduate studies in educational psychology and primary education, together with international teaching experience in Europe and the Middle…

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Vintage Eve Circa 6/2016: Book Review, “The Secrets of My Life: Vintner, Prisoner, Soldier, Spy”

Got an interesting book to review recently, and I’d have to say that the title alone, “The Secrets of My Life: Vintner, Prisoner, Soldier, Spy” by Peter M. F. Sichel piqued my interest. The vintner aspect, beginning in pre-Nazi Germany and ending decades later with the success and eventual demise of Blue Nun Liebfraumilch, linked…

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