9.- BEST DRINK BOOK (OTHER THAN WINE)

This year we have books on port, brandies, sake, pisco punch, Swedish whisky, vodka cocktails, and two books about cider, from Germany and Spain. This category is now the fastest growing of all.

1999 Sweden – Urban Laurin – Cognac (ICA)

2000 UK – Helen Arthur – Whisky (Apple)

2001 Norway – Toralf Bolgen – Cognac (Gyldendal)

2002 Sweden – Jimmy Olson – Beer (Jimson)

2003 Australia – Hayden Wood – Cocktails (Drink)

2004 UK – Nicolas Faith – Cognac (Mitchell Beazley)

2005 US – Kyle Jarrard – Cognac (John Wiley)

BEST IN THE WORLD

 April 7, 2007

1.- CANADA

La Bible du Porto

 Gwenael Revel

 (Modus Vivendi-Canada)

 Port is much in demand in French Canada as it is in France.

2.- CHINA

Ynshixian Hua Cong Shu – Jiuxian

Chinese Alcohol Drinks

Jing Hong, Wo Hua

(Shanghai Chinese Medicine University Publishing House)

Chinese alcoholic drinks deserve to be better known in the West for their quality, their history, their social value and their culture. In Beijing at the Gourmand Awards there will be tastings of Chinese alcohols, as well as Chinese red wines, and beers.

3.- FRANCE

Mes Boissons Maison

 Chantal Gautreau-Lucas

 (Union pour la Culture Populaire en Poitou-Charentes-Vendée,

 Geste Editions)

Producing your own spirits at home has long been a tradition in France. There was even for years a tax break for the private Bouilleurs de Crus. This book is based on popular culture.

4.- GERMANY

Die Welt des Apfelweins – The World of Apple Wines

 Hella Faber

 (Verlag Haumann)

Apple wines are cider. It is a very big business in Germany, with much quality products.

5.- JAPAN

The Book of Sake: A Connoisseurs Guide. In English

 Philip Harper, Harvo Matsuzaki

 (Kodansha International)

This is a reference book. Sake has a very historical and complex culture. It is increasing quickly in the west.

6.- PERU

Alas de los Querubines

Crónica Novelada del Redescubrimiento del Pisco Punch, la bebida insignia de San Francisco en 1900

 Guillermo Toro – Lira

 (Libres GTL – Peru)

 A history novel with a punch.

7.- SPAIN

De Sidra y Sidrerias por Xixón

 Serxu Solares

 (Ediciones La Productora)

Cider is widely produced and consumed in Northern Spain, with special restaurants devoted to it.

8.- SWEDEN

Svensk Whisky: En historia om groggvirke, järn och Mackmyra

Petter Karlsson

Photo: Johan Olsson

Cover & layout: Fredrik Bladh

(Sellin & Partner)

The saga of eight Masters of Engineering starting the unbelievable production of the first Swedish malt whisky.

9.- UK

Rare Malts

 Facts, Figures and Taste

 Ulf Buxrud

 Foreword: Charles MacLean

 (Quiller Publishing)

After the Swedish whiskey book, here is a Swedish author publishing a rare malts book in Britain. Whiskey is now global.

10.- USA

Viva Vodka – Colorful Cocktails with a Kick

 W.Park Kerr – The El Paso Chile Company

 Photographs by Leigh Beisch

 (Chronicle)

 Vodka is a favorite with cocktails.

 The author has a great personnality.