Wine & winemaking.

In The Vintner's Apprentice, go deep into the age-old art and tradition of creating wines. An insider tour of vineyards, wineries, wine cellars, and more! In The Vintner's Apprentice, you get behind-the-scenes access to the wine world's real-life masters of the craft, as well as a guide to the techniques that made them so successful. The pros, including the author Eric Miller, who is a California wine maker, give you behind-the-scenes tips and tricks to help you become a successful Vintner, or to master the craft of making small batches at home. Benefit from their experience selecting a site, planting a vineyard, harvesting and crushing the grapes, creating blends, and much more in The Vintner's Apprentice. The abundance of helpful tips and secrets from the masters will help you plant, harvest, crush, mix blends and learn to pick out different notes of different wines. While The Vintner's Apprentice will help the first-timer get started making wine, it will also help the seasoned veteran learn new tricks of the trade when brewing from home. Pick up a copy of The Vintner's Apprentice for yourself and start making your own delicious wine in your spare time or turn it into your full-time passion!

This book offers the first in-depth study of the origins of the Baptist Church in Oxford in the seventeenth century; it charts the people, the places, and the events that helped forge the Baptists into a dissenting congregation over a fifty-year period (1641-1691). It chronicles the rise of Baptist conventiclers during the early days of the Civil War, when Parliamentarians clashed with Royalist interests in the city of Oxford. It proceeds to discuss the significance of the Dissenters during the years of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, and the struggle they faced during the Restoration period as a resurgent Church of England sought to stamp its authority on all such seditious sectaryes. The story is told of a committed group of religious Dissenters, made up mainly of local townspeople who were fully integrated into the civic life of Oxford, seeking to make their vision of God's kingdom a reality in the world in which they lived. An influential tanner, a dedicated glover, a disaffected and outcast soldier, a well-connected cider-maker, and a controversial haberdasher who went on to become Mayor of Oxford all make their appearance here. Although the study is essentially biographical in nature, it drives the reader back inexorably to primary source materials, many of them identified and discussed here for the first time.