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Australian Wine

Posted on February 25, 2019

Australia’s harvest season is underway, so here is a reading list of some of the Wine Library’s best resources on Australian wine. Come to the library to read the periodicals, or place holds on any of the books below:

Periodicals:

Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker: excellent periodical that has broader appeal, for example, the January 2019 issue had a feature on smoke taint
Australian Journal of Grape & Wine Research: produced by the Australian Society of Viticulture & Enology and focuses on vine and wine science

New books:

Hunter Wine: a look at the history and heritage of Australia’s oldest wine region, the Hunter Valley
Lonely Planet’s Wine Trails: Australia & New Zealand: plan perfect weekends in Australian wine country

Older reference books:

Varietal Wines (2015): a guide to 130 varieties grown in Australia and their place in the international wine landscape
James Halliday's Wine Atlas of Australia: the most recent 2014 edition of this text which was first published in 1991

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A Tasting of East Coast Wines

Posted on January 16, 2019

Presented by the Friends of the Sonoma County Wine Library & the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association

Join us for a lively presentation and tasting, Thursday, January 24th at the Sonoma County Wine Library!

Presentation will cover:
-History of East Coast Wine Industry
-Hybrid/Native American Varietals
-East Coast Wine Industry Today

The tasting features 24 award-winning wines along with a selection of artisan cheeses to complement the wines.

Tickets are $25, $15 for students, and can be purchased online or by sending a check to Friends of the Sonoma County Wine Library, PO BOX 43, Healdsburg, CA 95448

Introducing Kanopy!

Posted on October 01, 2018

Kanopy is a new streaming service available to Sonoma County library patrons. Read more about the new service here: https://sonomalibrary.org/kanopy

If you are interested in wine, Kanopy has several great titles available, even a few that we cannot get on DVD in the Wine Library. Search for these titles on Kanopy and add them to your “watchlist” so whenever the inspiration strikes you’ll have a new wine feature to watch!

A Year in Burgundy – A Year in the Life of 7 Wine-Making Families
A Year in Champagne – The History of the Champagne Region in France
A Year in Port – Examining How Port Wine is Made in Portugal
Barolo Boys – An Italian Wine Revolution
Boom Varietal – Malbec Wine in Argentina
Burgundy: People with a Passion for Wine
Chateau Chunder: A Wine Revolution (Australia)
Episode: Dinastia Vivanco – The Rise of a New Wine Dynasty in Spain
Episode: “Green Wine” from series “The Green Economy”
Mondovino: The Series – The Human Drama (And Comedy) of Wine-Making
Our Blood Is Wine – Georgian Winemaking Traditions
Somm – A Tasteful Sip into the World of Master Sommeliers
Somm: Into the Bottle – The History of Wine Through 10 Bottles
Sour Grapes– Investigating a Counterfeit Wine Scandal
Related book – In Vino Duplicitas by Hellman

New Books on Wine Regions

Posted on August 01, 2018

We’ve had quite a few new books come in about wine in other parts of the world. Ranging from our neighbors in Oregon to Greece, check out some of the titles:

So You Think You Know Pacific Coast Wines? California, Washington and Oregon, 2017-18, by Marques Vickers

Oregon Wine Country Stories: Decoding the Grape, by Kenneth Friedenreich

Expedition of Thirst: Exploring Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries across the Heart of Kansas and Missouri, by Pete Dulin

Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change, by Andrew A. Painter

The Wines of Canada, by Rod Phillips

The Wines of Greece, by Konstantinos Lazarakis MW