Wine

Wine (from Latin vinum) is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes or other fruits. Due to a natural chemical balance, grapes ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine.

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Beginning of Forever (The D'Angelos, #3)

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Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Murder Uncorked (Cece Barton Mystery, #1)

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Wined and Died in New Orleans (Vintage Cookbook Mystery, #2)

A Pairing to Die For (Colorado Wine Mystery, #2)

Wine Books

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier

Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine

The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It

Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals

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Lists

2025 IACP Award Winners

13 books — 1 voter

Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar

Grape Covers

12 books — 4 voters

Best Wine Books Of All Time

15 books — 5 voters

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Oenology: A Wine in the Title

141 books — 7 voters

The Canadian Living Cookbook by Carol Ferguson

Best Canadian Cookbooks

95 books — 4 voters

Well, This Is Exhausting by Sophia Benoit

This Might Be Too Personal by Alyssa Shelasky

Champagne Flutes

21 books — 3 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Wine”

“ I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate") ...more ”
― Barbara Crooker, More

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