New Zealand Wines 2020 by MICHAEL COOPER

$39.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

Designed to help the buyer to make informed choices about the best quality wines available, this title is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and ratings, this is a `must-have' publication for the new initiate an d the established wine-buff alike. Divided by grape variety to help selection, this comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, and a dryness/sweetness guide. Other features include Classic Wines: wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages. We have now had over 25 years of Michael Cooper's Buyers Guide. ...Show more

Garage Project: The Art of Beer by Gillespie Garage Project; Ruffell Pete; Jos

$39.99 NZD

Category: Fine Art

Garage Project- The Art of Beer is a one-of-a-kind book celebrating the art, the creativity and - of course - the craft of the world's most experimental brewery, New Zealand's own Garage Project. Since its earliest days in Wellington's Aro Valley, Garage Project has collaborated with some of Aotearoa's most talented graphic designers, painters, game designers, tattoo artists (and more) to create literally hundreds of unique artworks for its cans and bottles. Many have become iconic, much-loved and even collectible items in their own right. Today, Garage Project's colourful and ever-changing beer labels are as well-known as its unique and popular brews - and over 100 of them are collected in this book. Here are original sketches and finished art for the beers you love to love, from Pils'n'Thrills to Aro Noir to BEER beer, with insights into the creative process and talented people who made them - and the stories and inspiration behind the brewery and the beers, all as told in entertaining style by the co-founders themselves. Drink in the thinking, the process and the inspiration behind Garage Project with this beautifully designed gift book. ...Show more

Curious Bartender Volume II, The: New Testament of Cocktails by Tristan Stephenson

$44.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer | Series: The Curious Bartender

Tristan Stephenson is back to shake up the cocktail world once more, perfecting classic cocktails and offering his signature reinventions using his world-renowned mixology skills.   "I found it hard to stay put while reading; I constantly wanted to leap up and strike out for a liquor store to tes t my new knowledge." Review of The Curious Bartender's Gin Palace, The Wall Street Journal.   Tristan Stephenson is back to shake up the cocktail world once more, perfecting classic cocktails and offering his signature reinventions using his world-renowned mixology skills.   The Curious Bartender Volume II: The New Testament of Cocktails is the sixth book by bestselling author and legendary bartender Tristan Stephenson.   You'll find 64 of the finest cocktails there have been, are, or will be: 32 perfected classics and 32 game-changing reinventions of classics. Tristan makes you discover tastebuds and talents you never knew you had. He'll show you the tools of the trade, the techniques he swears by, and how to experiment to create your own cocktail sensations.   Tristan's done all the hard work for you, selflessly trying every drink known to man to uncover what partners perfectly. All you have to do is leaf through the pages of this--the holy grail of cocktail books. ...Show more

Guinness Down Under by Rod Smith

$49.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

Guinness is a name instantly recognised the world over -- the famous stout has been brewed at St James's Gate in Dublin for over 250 years, and is now brewed under contract in fifty countries and 9 million glasses of Guinness are drunk each day worldwide. Guinness family members, originally in three maj or groupings -- brewing, banking, and the church -- have achieved fame in all walks of life, with some scaling great heights, others tasting great sadness. Guinness Down Under is the never-before-told story of how the famous brew and the family came to New Zealand and Australia in the mid-1800s: the brew itself through export and eventually in-country brewing, and the family through four grandsons of Arthur Guinness who made a new life Down Under, where many of their descendants remain. ...Show more

Wines of California

$16.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

This definitive guide to California wine surveys the Golden State's vineyards, geography, and history with in-depth coverage of wine-growing regions, outstanding producers, and their best vintages. Profiles of legendary winemakers capture them in their own words, while the striking new format of this sp ecial edition features full-color images showcasing the landscape, the wineries, and their artful labels. ...Show more

Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures by Paul Lukacs

$19.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

The story of how wine, as enjoyed by millions of people today, came to be. Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras. While its basic chemistry remains largely the same, wine's social roles have changed fundamental ly, being invented and reinvented many times over many centuries. In Inventing Wine, Paul Lukacs tells the enticing story of wine's transformation from a source of spiritual and bodily nourishment to a foodstuff valued for the wide array of pleasures it can provide. He chronicles how the prototypes of contemporary wines first emerged when people began to have options of what to drink, and he demonstrates that people selected wine for dramatically different reasons than those expressed when doing so was a necessity rather than a choice. During wine's long history, men and women imbued wine with different cultural meanings and invented different cultural roles for it to play. The power of such invention belonged both to those drinking wine and to those producing it. These included tastemakers like the medieval Cistercian monks of Burgundy who first thought of place as an important aspect of wine's identity; nineteenth-century writers such as Grimod de la Reyniere and Cyrus Redding who strived to give wine a rarefied aesthetic status; scientists like Louis Pasteur and Émile Peynaud who worked to help winemakers take more control over their craft; and a host of visionary vintners who aimed to produce better, more distinctive-tasting wines, eventually bringing high-quality wine to consumers around the globe. By charting the changes in both wine's appreciation and its production, Lukacs offers a fascinating new way to look at the present as well as the past. ...Show more

501 Must - Drink Cocktails by Bounty

$16.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer | Series: 501 Ser.

The Bompas and Parr Cocktail Book - Recipes for Mixing Extraordinary Drinks by Harry Parr

$22.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

Already responsible for giving jello a 21st-century makeover, the boys at Bompas & Parr now focus their attention on the perennially popular cocktail. But of course with an extra-special twist. "[This book] will make you smart, able to comprehend the cocktail long before you reach for a shaker, and primed to mix a fine drink once you do." -- The New York Times Sam and Harry take us on a rollercoaster journey through the wonderful world of fizzes, smashes, juleps, shrubs, and fixes. Classics, new kids on the block, and crazy concoctions are all to be expected, but the boys also provide advice on the all-important presentation, the ingredients, getting the ice just right, and, of course, how to host a show-stopping event. Veterans of successful alcoholic adventures such as "Alcoholic Architecture" a walk-in cloud of breathable G&T) and the "Architectural Punchbowl" (a uilding flooded with enough Courvoisier Punch for 25,000 people!), Bompas Parr will ensure you create a cocktail night to remember. ...Show more

The Curious Bartender Vol 1: The Artistry and Alchemy of Creating the Perfect Cocktail by Tristan Stephenson

$24.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer | Series: The\Curious Bartender Ser.

In this new small-format edition of Tristan Stephenson's original best-selling book, he explains the origins of the cocktail and showcases classic drinks alongside his own ingenious reinventions.   A true master of his craft, in this book bartender, restaurateur, spirit consultant, brand owner, a nd drinks author Tristan explores and experiments with the art of mixing the perfect cocktail, explaining the fascinating modern turns mixology has taken. Showcasing a selection of classic cocktails, he explains their intriguing origins, introducing the colorful historical characters who inspired or created them. Moving on, he reinvents each drink from his laboratory, adding contemporary twists to breathe fresh life into these vintage classics. Stay true to the originals with a Sazerac or a Rob Roy, or experiment with some of his modern variations to create a Green Fairy Sazerac topped with an absinthe "air" or an Insta-age Rob Roy with the "age" on the side. Also included is a reference section detailing all the techniques you will need, making this an essential anthology for the cocktail enthusiast. ...Show more

Rock Cocktails - 40 Rock 'n' Roll Inspired Drinks Recipes--From Gin Lizzy to Guns 'n' Rosés by Dog 'n' Bone

$19.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

Like your liquor as hard as your rock music? Then you'll love this collection of pun-based cocktails that pay tribute to the great and the good of rock 'n' roll. With recipes inspired by The Pixies (This Drunk He's Gone to Heaven), Fleetwood Mac (Pisco Your Own Way), Metallica (Enter Sand Manhattan), V an Halen (Shot for Teacher), and plenty more, there's more than enough to keep all rock cocktail makers busy. ...Show more

Richard Emerson: the Hopfather by Michael Donaldson

$45.00 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer

Richard Emerson is one of our pre-eminent brewers, a trailblazer who is often lauded as the godfather of craft beer in New Zealand. Born profoundly deaf in 1960s Dunedin, Emerson triumphed against all odds to launch Emerson's Brewery in 1992. He went on to create a string of unique, award-winning beers, spark a cult-following, attract global recognition, and become a millionaire - all from doing something he loved. For Richard, it came after 20 years of unrelenting commitment to the cause of good beer. They were two decades of hard graft, physically and emotionally, of no or low pay, of long hours, during which he watched his father, mentor and friend die just as the business began to stand on its own two feet. This is the story of an adventurous boy who wouldn't let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to do; a boy who literally fought for his place in the world and refused to let anyone tell him 'no'. ...Show more

Floral Cocktails: 40 Fragrant and Flavourful Flower- Powered Drinks by Muir Lottie

$17.99 NZD

Category: Wine & Beer