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Wine Spectator's California Wine : a comprehensive guide to the wineries, wines, vintages and vineyards with ratings and tasting notes for 5000 wines / by James Laube.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laube, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making--California.
- Wine and wine making.
- California.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, [2], 646 pages, 16 pages of color plates : illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition fully revised and updated.
- Distribution:
- New York : Division of M. Shanken Communications, Inc.,
- Manufacture:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Distributed by Running Press,
- Other Title:
- California wine
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wine Spectator Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Marvin R. Shanken
- Preface: Discovering California Wine / James Laube
- Introduction: How to Use This Book
- Chapter 1. California Wine: Yesterday and Today
- Chapter 2. Grapes and Wine Styles
- Chapter 3. Appellations and Vineyards
- California Wine Region Maps
- Chapter 4. How Wine is Made
- Chapter 5. A Summary of the Vintages: 1933 to 1998
- Chapter 6. Building Your Wine Collection
- Chapter 7. Winery Profiles and Tasting Notes
- Appendices. Appendix 1 Winery Directory; Appendix 2 Winery Star Ratings; Appendix 3 Wine Star Ratings; Appendix 4 California Vintage Chart: 1933 to 1998; Appendix 5 Vineyard Directory.
- Notes:
- "First edition published in 1995"--Title page verso
- "Illustrations by Dorothy Reinhardt; cover photo by Richard Gillette. Maps by Richard L. Thompson"--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy is "2" printing.
- ISBN:
- 1881659569
- 9781881659563
- OCLC:
- 42605124
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