Beverages Books

Features news on more than 6,000 wines, growers and regions. This book focuses on wine and food.

Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about and travel for. This drinking companion features a directory of over 2,000 beers. It explores its astonishing variety and rapidly expanding new tastes - thirst-quenching lagers, meal-in-a-glass stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, and classic ales and bitters.

Provides information on how to choose between the Chardonnay or the Grenache. This book includes tasting notes, reviews, suggestions as to when the wines will be at their best and recommendations for other great vintages and similar wines. It features images of the wine labels and the wineries and vineyards.

Offers you with over 200 recipes to create the 'perfect' drink for different occasion: from a minty Mojito or classic Margarita to a sophisticated Champagne Cocktail or exotic Russian Spring Punch. This book includes full-page colour photographs.

Superb quality, great drinking, the new edition of this classic now has stunning full-colour photographs.

Innocent is one of UK's largest food and drink company. This juicing recipe book features smoothie and juice recipes from the innovative team behind Innocent. It focuses on tasty drinks made by using a combination of healthy ingredients. It is useful for those who are serious about good health and great taste.

Presents a selection of the best wines for 2009. This book features sections including drink, give, dine, splurge and stash. It also contains a selection of juicy wine tips, and a guide to grape varieties.

Contains the wine information, recommendations, facts, figures, passion and opinion. This guide to wine includes full cross-referencing by country. It features an easy to use A-Z organisation. It shows how to choose wine with food. It also contains vintage information, and includes the author's personal favourites.

A wine guide, which covers storing, serving and tasting; guidance to wine flavours; wine finder by country; buying for the long term; and a directory of UK's retailers, from fine wine merchants to supermarkets and high street chains. It includes special occasion and good value fizz.

Presents recipes for juices and smoothies. This book includes tips on juicing and nutritional information for the various recipes.

A collection of over 200 cocktail recipes based on either rum, gin, vodka or tequila. It includes cocktails ranging from the Bloody Mary, Pina Colada, Dry Martini, Tequila Sunrise and Margarita, to some originals such as Coco Loco and Bombay Smash.

Drinking daily juices and smoothies is a great way to get all the vitamins and nutrients you need to maintain a balanced diet, as well as being an easy and delicious way to keep hunger at bay. This title gives you a choice of quick, simple recipes that use your favourite fruits and vegetables. Each recipe is accompanied by colour photography.

A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities. With an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

This title is a new addition to the Diffords Guide series, aimed specifically at consumers who wish to make cocktails at home. The book calls for the use of only 14 Key Spirits and Liqueurs plus some fridge and larder essentials, allowing the reader to make 500 cocktail recipes - some classic, some contemporary.

Each juice and smoothie described in this book is accompanied by a nutritional analysis that describes the mineral, vitamin and calorie content. Quick and easy to prepare, each juice is guaranteed to boost health and vitality.

The beer-fuelled book for blokes!

How long does a bottle of wine last? Does expensive wine mean better wine? What are oak chips? Can I really drink red wine with fish? Does all wine get better with age? How long will an opened bottle of wine last? Aiming to answer such questions, this book helps you out with what to do next - how to choose and enjoy wine.

What was Falstaff drinking when he called for more sack? What did they actually drink at Plato's Symposium? Why does Bridget Jones drink Chardonnay? Why do we drink to forget (and why doesn't it work)? This book answers these and many other intriguing questions.

This book specialises in supermarket wines; the top wine buyers are now in the supermarkets, and that's where the most characterful wines are on offer. This book intends to help you find the best of their improving range - from everyday drinking to those special occasion treats. New edition.

Introduces readers to the kit they'll need for tasting and thinking about wine, including glasses and the colours of key wine types. This book helps readers learn how to choose wine and make tasting notes. It profiles the Seven grapes: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and Pinot Noir.