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Picture rolling hills, with long rows of vineyards trailing off into the distance. Imagine the early morning sun filtering through a low veil of mist. Think of historic stone buildings perched on hillsides overlooking the valley below, and you can form a picture of Wine Country. No matter where you're visiting from, Wine Country has the ability to transport you, for however long you're staying, to a bucolic world, where exceptional wine flows freely and world-class cuisine is the expected norm.

The valley is just 25 miles long from Napa in the south to Calistoga in the north. Highway 29 runs up the west side of the valley, with the Silverado Trail running parallel to the east, and dozens of small roads connecting the two. The bulk of the 400-plus wineries in the region are neatly gathered along these routes and in the surrounding hills, so you can easily visit any number in a day.

Over the past few years, there's been an explosion of interest in good beer. As hundreds of great new breweries have opened across the country and around the world, quality ales and lagers have been given an importance never before imagined. Despite beer's renaissance, however, no one seems to have focused on why beer suddenly matters, or what it is about beer that makes it the drink for our age.

Everyone hates them...and yet just about everyone has them, at least sometimes. In the United States, 11.6 million employees have reported going to work with a hangover within the previous 12 months. In this personal essay - a spirituous blend of philosophy, theology, history and biochemistry - Evan Rail sings the praises of the bad morning, arguing that a well-made katzenjammer can change our world and ourselves for the better, allowing us to find at least some good in feeling very bad.

There's nothing like smoothies made from scratch. This is something that you can do from the comfort of your kitchen. All you need is the right equipment and inspiring recipe ideas. That's exactly what you can expect to get in the book Smoothie Making Made Simple: How to Make Great Smoothies from Scratch. We take smoothies for granted so much that we forget that some people don't even know what constitutes a smoothie.

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, VINE TALK's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

What makes a wine distinctive is the goût du terroir, or the taste of the land - plus the personality and passion of the wine maker who lovingly adds his own liqueur de dosage or secret ingredient to each bottle. Here is a vintner's month-by-month account of one vintage at the Iron Horse vineyard located in the hills of Sonoma County in California. Author and wife of Iron Horse's wine-maker, Joy Sterling, fascinates with her account of the commitment involved in producing a premium wine.

Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker: literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M. F. K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including Calvin Trillin, Bill Buford, Adam Gopnik, Jane Kramer, and Anthony Bourdain. Now, in this indispensable collection, The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing on food and drink.

Luisterboek van Nederlands meest bekende wijnschrijver Hubrecht Duijker. Luisteren naar geuren en smaken? Dat kan nu, met het nieuwe luisterboek van Hubrecht Duijker. Hij neemt u mee op een virtuele, wereldwijde wijnreis. Hubrecht begint te vertellen hoe u kunt leren proeven, en geeft vervolgens op vrolijke wijze een reeks informatieve impressies van wijndorpen en wijnstreken - die hij uiteraard zelf heeft bezocht. Van Saint-Emilion tot Stellenbosch, van Meursault tot het Argentijnse Mendoza en van Rioja tot Barossa Valley in Australië.

"Il vino può essere quell'elastico che ci riporta indietro. Per me è stato un'occasione di rinascita personale ma può esserlo per chiunque voglia cambiare vita." Dopo gli inizi come giornalista nella sua Bergamo, Laura Donadoni si è dovuta trasferire in America dove ha ricominciato da zero diventando in poco tempo esperta di vino e sommelier di successo e fondando uno dei wine blog e canali Instagram più seguiti, The Italian Wine Girl.

Sie möchten zum wahren Weinkenner werden, und das ohne ein ganzes Jahr in eine Ausbildung zum Sommelier zu investieren? Guter Wein "macht den Kranken gesund", wusste bereits der römische Gelehrte Marcus Terentius Varro zu berichten. Laut Aussage des Dichters Tibull verschönert er den Tag, wobei vermutlich einige, die Wein predigen, Wasser trinken - Oder war es anders herum? Und heute? Ist und bleibt der Wein vielerorts ein wichtiges kulturelles Gut.

Hans Reiner Schultz, Professor für Weinbau und Präsident der Hochschule Geisenheim, erzählt: "Die Weinrebe", "Klimatische Voraussetzungen", "Weinbauzonen", "Regionale Identität", "Lehren aus der Reblauskatastrophe", "Rebschnitt", "Laubwandmanagement", "Blütephase", "Laubschnitt", "Pilzkrankheiten", "Pflanzenschutzmittel", "Traubenbildung", "Beerenentwicklung", "Aromastoffgruppen", "Traubenverarbeitung", "Weinbereitung", "Farbstabilität", "Rotundone", "Hefe", "Schweflige Säure", "Gärung", "Reinzuchthefen", "Ausbau im Holzfass", "Ökologischer und biodynamischer Anbau", "Terroir".

What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers their distinctive flavors, how beer's chemistry works at the molecular level, and how various societies have regulated the production and consumption of beer.