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"Join bestselling author Beth Moore in her life-changing quest of vine-chasing-and learn how everything changes when you discover the true meaning of a fruitful, God-pleasing, meaning-filled life. Most of us have times when, if we are honest, we'd admit to feeling like our lives are embarrassingly small and insignificant. Times when it seems like we're going through a whole lot of pain and striving without much to show for it. Like our daily pursuits...
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""This is a book to be savored."-Rachel Lynn Solomon. Jen Devon's Bend Toward the Sun is a gorgeous, emotional love story about taking unexpected paths, accepting loss, and finding strength in the transformative power of love. Rowan McKinnon believes love isn't real. Armed with a PhD in botany, two friends who accept her social quirkiness, and some occasional no-strings sex, she has everything she needs. What she doesn't share is that she hides deep...
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From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, every aspect of growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine is covered in this classic guide. Fully illustrated instructions clearly show you how to choose and prepare a vineyard site; build effective trellising systems; select, plant, prune, and harvest the right grapes for your climate; press, ferment, age, and bottle wine; and judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, and taste. This...
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"There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world--from altesse to zierfandler--but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss. Stemming from his own growing obsession, Wilson moves far beyond the "noble grapes," hunting down obscure and underappreciated wines from Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, France,...
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"Since his release from prison, where he served a eighteen-month sentence for growing cannabis, Benjamin Hecht has grown increasingly reclusive. He keeps busy cultivating a dozen acres of grapes outside the town of Natoma, California, but he interacts with almost no one, except for his wife, Ada, and almost never leaves his farm. Most notably, his relationship with his son, Yoel, whose trust he betrayed years ago, has continued to degrade. When Yoel...
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The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which extends back into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Ancient Wine opens up whole new chapters in the fascinating story of wine by drawing on recent archaeological discoveries, molecular and DNA sleuthing, and the writings and...
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"Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, 'whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left.' But when her boyfriend Howard, en route to Aspen, breaks things off out of the blue, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers like Gallo and Kendall-Jackson, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and...
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"A Dios le gusta ver a las cosas crecer y florecer. La metáfora de Dios como Jardinero se ve a través de todas las Escrituras a medida que leemos cómo él vela por su pueblo con intención, habilidad y tierno cuidado. Cuando Jesús comenzó su ministerio en la tierra, llevó esta idea a un nivel completamente nuevo, revelando que él mismo es la Vid. Nos invita a un terreno sagrado y perdurable, llamándonos a florecer en la vida abundante que...
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"Explore the wine regions of France with digital filmmakers Sid and Mary Lee Nolan. The Nolans take you on a journey from the vibrant French capital, Paris, to the many regions known worldwide for their wines -the Loire, Burgundy, Bordeaux, the Rhone, Alsace. Spectacular sights, wonderful meals and charming inns await visitors to the French wine regions. Explore these while learning about the grape growing, the production year and the varietals that...
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Acompañe a la autora de éxitos de mayor venta Beth Moore en su aventura transformadora de perseguir vides, y descubra cómo todo cambia cuando comprendemos el verdadero significado de una vida fructífera, significativa, abundante y agradable a Dios. En Persiguiendo la vid, Beth Moore nos brinda una esperanza nueva, revelando abundantes secretos de una vida fructífera, agradable a Dios y constructiva para el reino. Beth rastrea a través de las...
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"When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanée Conti-the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world-he soon found a story that was much larger, and more thrilling, than he had originally imagined. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the DRC, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of...
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