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Wine Dogs USA Edition
WINE DOGS IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING WINE BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED - David the father of Oregon wine Wherever wine is made, you're likely to find a good dog stalking the cellar or the vineyard. The USA Edition of Wine Dogs features over 300 wineries across the United States and over 450 stunning photos of their loyal hounds. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Robert Parker Jr, Dan Berger, Bruce Cass, Ralph Steadman, Cole Danehower and many more. Find out which dog ate a couch, who chewed Bill Clinton's leg and discover the identity of the dog who stole Robert Mondavi's heart.Wine Dogs USA Edition is a photographic journal of stunning pictures and great stories - created all for the love of dogs and wine.winedogs.com
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536 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2006
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May 23, 2023
As the summary of the book says, ‘The USA Edition of Wine Dogs features over 300 wineries across the United States and over 450 stunning photos of their loyal hounds. The book is a very pretty purple color with gold lettering, and while not as wide as your typical coffee table book, it makes up for it in depth. I can completely see how it would pair well with a couple of glasses of similar colored wine to decorate any countertop.
The photographs are amazingly good, all these beautiful dogs looking at you. Most seem to be of pedigreed breeds. I appreciate the book has a wine dog’s breed index giving the page number by breed. From counting the pages references, you can know how many of each are featured including 100 Labradors, 23 Golden Retrievers, 22 Australian Shepherds, 13 German Shepherds, 11 Standard Poodles, and 11 Weimaraner’s. Mixed breeds are represented with a primary breed with an X, like Australian Shepherd X, or Cocker Spaniel X. A whole lot of other breeds are represented but unfortunately no Newfoundland dogs.
What I really liked was how with each dog there are comments under these headings:
Favorite Toy: (red ball, anything that squeaks, socks, the cat, rabbits, everybody, ducks)
Favorite food: (everything, garbage, filet, grapes)
Favorite Pastime: (chasing the ball, chasing cats and birds, chasing skunks, getting in the trash)
Pet Peeves: (being scolded, cats, vacuums, skunks
Known accomplices: (often names I don’t know, maybe just a way for people to add names of their children, friends, other pets?)
Naughtiest Deed:
It is this last category of Naughtiest Deed that I found most interesting and paid the most attention to. While all of them are what you would expect, and a fair amount where too generic, there was some that I found fun: stealing food, chewing the door, the great escape, falling off a cliff at Mt. Hood and being rescued by Oregon Humane Search & Rescue Group, missing the paper, tangling with skunks, eating a couch, crawling into bed covered in mud, chasing and eating rabbits, eating Jeff’s trucks center console, tinkling on people when he meets them, going pooh pooh next to the toilet, eating a tray of cup cakes off a high shelf, eating grapes off the vine, eating cat litter, peeing on the lawn, chewing the fence down at grandma’s house, eating the sofa, chewing the corners of the teak furniture, ruining one women’s suede pants with his muddy paws, eating 3 pounds of defrosting lamb, dropping gas bombs, eating a sack of flour, chewing up a pair of $200 shoes, running away to the state park to steal campers food, chasing cows, stealing workers lunches and playing with rattlesnakes, eating two boxes of See’s candy at Christmas, hiding bras in the garden, following her brother through a broken window causing 28 stiches, being too rough with newborn kittens, eating an entire cheesecake, stealing an entire wheel of cheese at a black-tie winery affair, eating red grapes and bumblebees, bringing roadkill to the dinner table, putting her nose on the dinner table, barfing after stuffing himself, killing the neighbors cat, stealing tools while you are using them, eating new Manolo Blahnik shoes, bringing a rabbit carcass into the house, eating a dead rodent in front of the photographer, eating red grapes on a white carpet, destroying remote controls, destroying the Wineries of North America book, killing eleven seatbelts in six different cars, and one more entry to add - ‘where do I start.’ I did not include in that list the multiple comments on getting in the trash or spreading trash through the house or what they ate out of the trash, or other versions of playing with skunks, or running away, or running away and getting picked up by animal control, but there is a fair number of repeats of these types.
I started to feel sorry for the dogs being labeled by their worst deeds. Maybe next book they could also ask for the dogs ‘Mightiest deeds’ as well. The comments made the dogs feel much more personal. I wish all dog photograph books would do something similar.
After careful consideration I have decided to add this to my short list of ‘dogs-favorite-books’. It is definitely one of the best in the category of dog coffee table books. The pictures are among the best photographs I have seen of dogs. Looking at them just makes you want to smile. It is such a great feeling to know that the dogs captured in this book will be alive between the pages forever. It is a beautiful book and one I will be proud to display on a coffee table.
The photographs are amazingly good, all these beautiful dogs looking at you. Most seem to be of pedigreed breeds. I appreciate the book has a wine dog’s breed index giving the page number by breed. From counting the pages references, you can know how many of each are featured including 100 Labradors, 23 Golden Retrievers, 22 Australian Shepherds, 13 German Shepherds, 11 Standard Poodles, and 11 Weimaraner’s. Mixed breeds are represented with a primary breed with an X, like Australian Shepherd X, or Cocker Spaniel X. A whole lot of other breeds are represented but unfortunately no Newfoundland dogs.
What I really liked was how with each dog there are comments under these headings:
Favorite Toy: (red ball, anything that squeaks, socks, the cat, rabbits, everybody, ducks)
Favorite food: (everything, garbage, filet, grapes)
Favorite Pastime: (chasing the ball, chasing cats and birds, chasing skunks, getting in the trash)
Pet Peeves: (being scolded, cats, vacuums, skunks
Known accomplices: (often names I don’t know, maybe just a way for people to add names of their children, friends, other pets?)
Naughtiest Deed:
It is this last category of Naughtiest Deed that I found most interesting and paid the most attention to. While all of them are what you would expect, and a fair amount where too generic, there was some that I found fun: stealing food, chewing the door, the great escape, falling off a cliff at Mt. Hood and being rescued by Oregon Humane Search & Rescue Group, missing the paper, tangling with skunks, eating a couch, crawling into bed covered in mud, chasing and eating rabbits, eating Jeff’s trucks center console, tinkling on people when he meets them, going pooh pooh next to the toilet, eating a tray of cup cakes off a high shelf, eating grapes off the vine, eating cat litter, peeing on the lawn, chewing the fence down at grandma’s house, eating the sofa, chewing the corners of the teak furniture, ruining one women’s suede pants with his muddy paws, eating 3 pounds of defrosting lamb, dropping gas bombs, eating a sack of flour, chewing up a pair of $200 shoes, running away to the state park to steal campers food, chasing cows, stealing workers lunches and playing with rattlesnakes, eating two boxes of See’s candy at Christmas, hiding bras in the garden, following her brother through a broken window causing 28 stiches, being too rough with newborn kittens, eating an entire cheesecake, stealing an entire wheel of cheese at a black-tie winery affair, eating red grapes and bumblebees, bringing roadkill to the dinner table, putting her nose on the dinner table, barfing after stuffing himself, killing the neighbors cat, stealing tools while you are using them, eating new Manolo Blahnik shoes, bringing a rabbit carcass into the house, eating a dead rodent in front of the photographer, eating red grapes on a white carpet, destroying remote controls, destroying the Wineries of North America book, killing eleven seatbelts in six different cars, and one more entry to add - ‘where do I start.’ I did not include in that list the multiple comments on getting in the trash or spreading trash through the house or what they ate out of the trash, or other versions of playing with skunks, or running away, or running away and getting picked up by animal control, but there is a fair number of repeats of these types.
I started to feel sorry for the dogs being labeled by their worst deeds. Maybe next book they could also ask for the dogs ‘Mightiest deeds’ as well. The comments made the dogs feel much more personal. I wish all dog photograph books would do something similar.
After careful consideration I have decided to add this to my short list of ‘dogs-favorite-books’. It is definitely one of the best in the category of dog coffee table books. The pictures are among the best photographs I have seen of dogs. Looking at them just makes you want to smile. It is such a great feeling to know that the dogs captured in this book will be alive between the pages forever. It is a beautiful book and one I will be proud to display on a coffee table.
May 29, 2008
A glass of Wine and Bow-Wow!
Light the fireplace, pour yourself a nice glass of wine and curl up with your favorite 'pooch' to really enjoy this great little collection of the first edition of American Wine Dogs!
It's not about the wine, but about all those wonderful canines that inhabit various wineries, often greeting visitors with a friendly tail wag.
It's a dog lover's delight!
Not only are all the pictures delightful to look at, but the the bios are all unique and fun to read.
Makes a great coffee table book and it's sure to have you looking for the friendly welcome of a 'wine dog' on your next visit to a winery!
Light the fireplace, pour yourself a nice glass of wine and curl up with your favorite 'pooch' to really enjoy this great little collection of the first edition of American Wine Dogs!
It's not about the wine, but about all those wonderful canines that inhabit various wineries, often greeting visitors with a friendly tail wag.
It's a dog lover's delight!
Not only are all the pictures delightful to look at, but the the bios are all unique and fun to read.
Makes a great coffee table book and it's sure to have you looking for the friendly welcome of a 'wine dog' on your next visit to a winery!
June 30, 2008
wine and dogs. two of the best things ever. what a combo.
August 12, 2012
Coffee table book worthy of picking up anytime!
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