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The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Good Wine Guide 2011  by Nick Stock
Looking for a great wine to take to a dinner party? Need some good reds for your cellar? Keen to unravel the finer points of pinot noir? The Age/ Sydney Morning Herald Good Wine Guide 2011 has the answers to these and hundreds more questions about choosing and buying wine. In this latest edition of the bestselling Penguin Wine Guide, award-winning wine writer and judge Nick Stock brings you over 1200 of the best wines available, selected from his extensive travels and tastings, including the best of New Zealand, Italy, Spain and France. His entertaining and concise notes capture the essence of each wine’s unique personality, as he provides expert guidance on the best wines for your table and your cellar.

Paperback,  400 pp,  $26.95. Buy now

Australian Wine Vintages 2011 – The Gold Book  by Rob Geddes
Australian Wine Vintages 2011 popularly known as the Gold Book includes over two thousand wines tasted and rated and a guide to the best restaurants and accommodation services in the wine regions. This wine guide is packed with solid performers but also includes new wines to keep wine buffs on their toes. There is good representation across the grape varieties and Australian spirits, liqueurs and fortified wines. New to this year’s edition is a newly devised classification for fortified wines, designed to help wine lovers select from the wide range available in Australia. Tasting notes include vintage quality, cellaring time, alcohol levels and indicative price. It is a nice compact size, perfect for taking shopping and travelling.

Hardback,  538 pp,  $34.99. Buy now

James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2011  by James Halliday
James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion is the No.1 bestselling guide to wineries and wine in Australia. Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2011 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the-minute information. Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine via detailed tasting notes, each of which includes vintage-specific ratings, advice on optimal drinking, alcohol content, price and value rating. He provides important details on wineries and winemakers. An indispensable reference for all enthusiasts of Australian wine, the Australian Wine Companion is a must-have for anyone planning to visit a wine-growing region or to replenish their cellar or wine rack.

Paperback,  768 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

Fine Wines 
Lists the best vintages by year. This work contains entries that feature a detailed description of the wine itself, as well as an enlightening discussion of the vineyard’s history and the specific conditions that led to superior vintages

,  420 pp,  $55.95. Buy now

Courier Mail Food + Wine Guide to Queensland 2010  by Margaret Kennedy
The latest update of this annual guide. Appealing to natives and tousists equally. Covers the best restaurants, cafes, bars and providors.

Paperback,  248 pp,  $26.95. Buy now

Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2010  by Nick Stock
With so many wines on our shelves these days, the range has never been better – and the choice has never been harder. In this latest edition of the bestselling Guide, award-winning wine writer and judge Nick Stock brings you over 1200 of the best wines available, selected from his extensive travels and tastings, including the best of New Zealand, Italy, Spain and France. His entertaining and concise notes capture the essence of each wine’s unique personality, as he provides expert guidance on the best wines for your table and your cellar.

Paperback,  416 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Oz Clarke’s Pocket Wine Guide 2010  by Oz Clarke
Clarke’s style provides an easy read: sharp without being sarcastic, witty without being flippant, he communicates well with novice and knowledgeable wine enthusiasts alike. -Wine Enthusiast You can’t hold all the wine information you need in your head–but with this handy guide, you’ll always have it at hand!Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke’s now classic Pocket Wine Guide has been thoroughly and meticulously updated for 2010. It features more information, more recommendations, more facts, more figures, and more passion and opinion than any other comparable book on wine. Designed for optimal browsing, it includes 60 illustrations of maps, labels, and bottles, as well as a country by country index and a full producer index to help you find o

,  352 pp,  $20.95. Buy now

Food & Wine Wine Guide 2010  by Food and Wine editors
Divided into two major sections, this title includes: Old & New World, each wine organized alphabetically by country with ratings for over 1,000 wonderful wines from major wine-producing regions around the world. Recommended wines cover various price ranges, with an emphasis on ones that offer the best value for the dollar

Paperback,  320 pp,  $18.95. Buy now

Wine Class  by Jo Burzynska
Wine Class is an entertaining and informative guide to wine that aims to equip the reader with the confidence to hold their own, discover what they like and understand wine. Brimming with amusing anecdotes and myth debunking, the book is based on Jo Burzynska’s popular Adventures in Wine classes. It examines the key factors that affect wine – the influence of region, the key grape varieties, the winemaker, plus key wine recommendations in a variety of price brackets, to illustrate what Jo is discussing. It is aimed at beginners, but has a depth that ensures that those with some wine experience will also find it of use and should particularly appeal to a female readership. Jo will be widely recognised through her weekly section in the Herald

Paperback,  256 pp,  $36.95. Buy now

Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2010  by Hugh Johnson
The original and best, “Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book” is the ultimate compact guide. Now in its 33rd edition, it is the UK’s number one wine book appealing to wine lovers and professionals alike. It is the key reference for enthusiasts, investors and collectors and this year’s edition boasts up-to-date news on more than 6,000 wines, growers and regions plus invaluable vintage information from experts around the world. A new colour supplement focuses on South American wines and more than 200 of Johnson’s favourites for 2010 are also included. Hugh Johnson’s winning formula of insight, critical appraisal of the world of wine, plus vintage news has never been bettered.

Hardback,  320 pp,  $25.00. Buy now

California Wine for Dummies  by Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
This is a tasteful guide for California wine novices and connoisseurs alike. California accounts for over 90 percent of the total U.S. wine production – about two of every three bottles sold. California Wine For Dummies presents the latest information on California wines and the regions where they are produced, such as Sonoma, Napa, and Monterey. The book gives readers the knowledge they need to appreciate California wines, select a good bottle at a store or restaurant, find bargains, and pair wines with food.It also explains why some regions are renowned for wines made from specific grape varietals, and offers tips on how to get the most out of winery visits. Ed McCarthy, CWE (Baldwin, NY), is a regular contributor to Wine Enthusiast and T

Paperback,  288 pp,  $22.95. Buy now

The Ecco Guide to the Best of Italian Wine  by Ian D’Agata
The Ecco Guide to the Best Wines of Italy will be simple to read and user-friendly, with concise and useful information for where to buy wines as well as information about visiting the winemaker if you go Italy. It will make Italian wines easier to understand and it will point out sure-bet, excellent wines that won’t let anyone down. The book will also have a detailed glossary and appendix section. There is no other book out there like this one – a truly comprehensive guide to Italian wines. D’Agata is on the road six months out of the year, traveling throughout Italy visiting wine estates and cellars. This book represents the end of a year’s worth of wine tastings and wine travels and long conversations with the producers.

Paperback,  320 pp,  $19.95. Buy now

Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2009  by Michael Cooper
Divided by grape variety to help selection, Michael Cooper’s comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, dryness/sweetness guide, retail price and value-for-money ratings. The other features include Classic Wines – wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages – as well as sections on ‘Where to Buy Wine’, ‘Trends in the Wine Market’ and ‘Best Buys of the Year’, and a vintage report.It is the most comprehensive guide available. It now includes notes and ratings on over 2600 wines. Written by a highly respected and well-known wine writer.

Paperback,  544 pp,  $35.00. Buy now

The Wine Buyer’s Guide  by Robert Parker
This book features recent vintages, prices and ratings for more than 8,000 wines from across the world. With this fully revised, seventh edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide, Robert Parker once again makes the world of wine accessible to everyone. Two volumes presented in a durable slipcase cover wines from France and the rest of the world. Using his famous 100-point rating system, he evaluates over 8,000 wines. It contains all the essential information on recent vintages and prices, buying and storing, spotting badly stored or abused bottles, and finding the best value wines. This is an indispensable one-stop-shop for any wine connoisseur

,  1656 pp,  $175.00. Buy now

Grapes and Wines  by Oz Clarke and Margaret Rand
Approaching wine through grapes is in tune with the way consumers now think and learn about wine. This is the definitive, up-to-date guide to the world’s greatest grapes and the wines they make – the history, the places, the people, the wine styles and the flavours. Highly acclaimed winner of the Lanson Wine Book of the Year award, Grapes and Wines has been updated to make it once again a helpful, thorough and very readable guide to the world’s most interesting wines and grapes

Paperback,  320 pp,  $39.99. Buy now

Heard it Through the Grapevine  by Matt Skinner

,   $39.99. Buy now

Indispensable Wine Guide 2009  by Joelle Thomson
Designed as the indispensable ‘must-have’ guide to affordable wines available in New Zealand, Joelle Thomson has crammed this book with useful information to help price-conscious consumers choose the best value wine. Local and international wines are tested by Joelle, to give a comprehensive overview of the new vintage along with the highlights of the vintage year, wine news and developments and tips on the storage and serving of wines. A busy working mother, she knows exactly what people need to know to make informed choices, in their local wineshop or supermarket, and her absolutely essential wine guide will help them choose the right wine for their budget with confidence.

Paperback,   $22.99. Buy now

Penin Guide to Spanish Wine 2009  by Jose Penin
For over 25 years, Jose Penin has written about the wines and wine growers of Spain. Spanish wines are rated with a system of evaluation which takes account of the purchase price and the quality hence the final equation is a favourable cost-performance ratio. There are over 6000 wines from over 2600 wineries. In the first 100 pages, Penin tackles ‘everything that one should know about wine’. The next 1000 pages which form the main part of the book is the evaluation of the wines accompanied by illustrations of the wine labels and information about the address of the wine maker. In the appendix, there is an overview of the highest ranking wines and then the best evaluated wines by region.

Paperback,  1248 pp,  $62.95. Buy now

Wine Enthusiast Essential Buying Guide 2009 
This buying guide is all a wine lover will ever need-with a comprehensive list of ratings for more wines than any other buying guide in the market! The Wine Enthusiast Essential Buying Guide 2009 makes it easy to identify a wine for every taste, budget, meal, and geographic preference. Authored by a distinguished panel of Wine Enthusiasts in-house tasters, this buying guide offers authoritative buying advice on more than 50,000 wines, with ratings and reviews on wines from all over the world. This updated edition of Wine Enthusiasts Essential Buying Guide is a must for any oenophiles library.

Paperback,  992 pp,  $41.95. Buy now

The Sommelier’s Guide to Wine  by Brian H. Smith
Written by a leading wine educator from the esteemed Culinary Institute of America, The Sommelier’s Guide to Wine is an engaging, in-depth introduction to the often-intimidating world of wine. Foodies, wine expert wannabes, wait staff and wine lovers alike can learn how to present, serve, drink, and store wine just like a sommelier. The guidebook explains different wine styles, grape types, wine regions, and includes tips on how to properly pair wines with specific foods. Full of photos, maps, and illustrations, The Sommelier’s Guide to Wine takes readers from winemaking methods through reading labels, buying, ordering, and presenting all varieties of wine. It’s a useful introduction to the complex world of wines.

,  208 pp,  $20.95. Buy now

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