Virtually every properly educated and trained winegrower in the English-speaking world has a copy of "Sunlight Into Wine: A Handbook of Wine Grape Canopy Management," a 1991 book whose principal author is Dr. Richard E. Smart, a renowned Australian viticulturist.
Some of the weirder legislation includes legalizing 6-gallon containers of wine, creating a Florida Marriage Handbook, and a 'Sunshine Protection Act' that says the state should observe Daylight Savings all year long.
Beverage/ Reference/ Technical: "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food & Drink in America, Second Edition" by Andrew F. Smith; "Wine Grapes" by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and Jose Vouillamoz; "The New Cider Maker's Handbook" by Claude Jolicoeur.
At the beginning of the year she had reviewed an assortment of volumes about food – The Official Foodie Handbook, Elizabeth David's An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook – for the London Review of Books.
While black Americans are big consumers of Cognac and sparkling wine, they are last among major ethnic groups in consumption of table wine, according to Adams Wine Handbook 2002.
The state's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law handbook for retailers puts the regulations in laymen's terms: The law gives stores "just two product categories, liquors and wines, both exclusively theirs alone to sell and nothing else.
A political group's handbook.
So check your company handbook.
A Handbook for the Other Woman.
The British handbook is still available here.
