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George Washington Wine Cooler Fetches $782,500 at Auction
It was one of four wine coolers Washington ordered in 1789, the year he was sworn into office and moved into his first official residence, on Cherry Street in Manhattan. President’s Gift In 1797, as Washington left office and moved to Mount

Wine by Design (Interior Angles)
There is a revolution currently underway in the world of wine. Established and new vintners are discovering the dual marketing advantage of coupling exquisite, name-brand designer architecture with the winery tour.  Internationally renowned architects, such as Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, and Santiago Calatrava, have all designed wineries that focus on the experience of wine production for the visitor while providing brand recognition in the form of architecture. 

Celebrating the new alignment that the wine industry is making with design, Wine by Design highlights the most exciting new designs for wineries and spaces of wine from throughout the world including Australia, Chile, USA, Canada and the established vineyards of Europe.

It also emphasises the way design is making headway into wine retail and wine bars, as well as the trend for conspicuously displayed spaces for the storage and consumption of wine.

Customer Review: A great pairing of Wine & Architecture
I bought this as a Christmas gift for one of my many wine loving friends and just had to get one for myself. It tackles a unique subject – winery architecture – and gives you a good but not too in depth description of the wine making region, the wine facilities, and the wines themselves. It is full of great colour photography, site plans, and a broad selection of wineries around the world. The architecture featured is modern and not what you expect of typical wineries…the Gehry sketches alone are worth the price of the book! Want to impress your friends? Leave this book out on your coffee table. Better yet, pull this book out and enjoy while you sip on a Rioja red.

Wine Analysis & Production
This accessible volume provides practical information on wine analysis and production. It covers the full range of techniques, from quick screening assays to wet chemical and instrumentation analysis, as well as interpretation of results. Emphasizing a step-by-step approach to procedures, the authors:

• - examine analyses commonly performed in the United States, Europe and Australia:
• - discuss viticultural considerations as they relate to winemakeing as well as sensory evaluation and the importance of each anolyte in the spectrum of winery operations:
• - present new procedures including ‘quick’ qualitative tests for the presence of various constituents:
• - explore updated information on sensory evaluation of wines, use of enzymes in winemaking, health aspects and more, and – offer a chapter featuring laboratory procedures, listed alphabetically and extensively cross-referenced.

International in scope, Wine Analysis and Production is essential for winemakers and laboratory personnel worldwide. Students of enology will find it an incomparable resource.

Customer Review: Must have book for winemakers
This book is must have for anyone who is in wine production business. The authors discuss viticultural considerations as they relate to winemaking as well as sensory evaluation and the importance of each analyte in the spectrum of winery operations. I bought this book with “Successful wine marketing” and have greatly benefited from these two books.
Here is the content of the book: Preface o Introduction o Sensory Analysis of Juices and Wines o Grape Maturity and Quality o Hydrogen Ion (PH) and Fixed Acids o Carbohydrates o Alcohols and Extract o Phenolic Compounds and Wine Color o Nitrogen Compounds o Sulfur Dioxide and Sorbic Acid o Volatile Acidity o Metals, Cations and Anions o Sorbic Acid, Benzoic Acid, and Dimethyedicarbonate o Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen o Tartrates and Instabilities; Fining and Fining Agents o Sanitation o Basic Principles of Microbiology in the Winery o Cork o Analytical Methods
I strongly recommend this book to winemakers and wine marketers. It is a classic!

Customer Review: Wine Analysis and Production
Clearly and concisely written for the amature wine maker or student of enology who is serious about learning the technical aspects of great wine production.

Oil, gold and fine wine outstrip the FTSE – The Independent

Oil, gold and fine wine outstrip the FTSE The Independent Oil, gold and fine wine outstripped the FTSE in 2011, the index of the 100 most valuable companies having fallen 5.6 per cent over the year. Fine wine grew only marginally but that comes off the back of two years of 30 per cent growth that generated …

The Taste of New Wine
Miller’s candid and honest life-changing message challenges indifference and creates an exciting sense of spiritual renewal and adventure. With a refreshing absence of religious jargon, he points the way out of the “me-centered” quagmire of recent years and offers a pattern of integrity and openness in our relations with God and one another.

Customer Review: A great winemaker —
What a relief to find this book is still widely available! Keith Miller brings his lively personality, strong mind, and journalist’s eye for the powerful details of life to the matter of honest, satisfying Christian life “in the real world.” He gives me hope that not only is it possible — even when there are setbacks and failings — but it is often delightful and inspirational. It’s encouraging to see how that happens in a completely secular business setting (he worked for a petroleum engineering company before becoming I think a fulltime writer- teacher) where fools aren’t suffered gladly, and where one can’t hide fakery from the co-workers.

Customer Review: Presbyterian Journal says “Sell your bed for this one!”
Presbyterian Journal says “Sell your bed for this one!” in the blurbs on the back cover. The foreword by Elton Trueblood describes it as a constructively critical book. Keith Miller is refreshingly honest in the way few men dare to be about his shortcomings in his quest to be a decent Christian man and in his demands for the same kind of honesty from others in the church. A breath of fresh air to read!