UNIVERSITY WINE COURSE ($35) by Marian Baldy, Ph.D. One of our best selling titles. "The" wine reference work in terms of reliable science and technical information. Can be used as a textbook, a home tutorial or a reference work. Evolved from the author's 20 years of teaching about wine at California State University.

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO WINE ($49.95) edited by Jancis Robinson, with individual topics assigned to an impressive list of 75 international experts as contributing editors, this giant tome is likely to become "the" standard reference for wine for the whole wide world. It's 1100 pages and might better be called "The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Wine"...it really does cover it all and in depth. If you were going to have a one book wine library, this would have to be it.

FAVORITE RECIPES OF CALIFORNIA WINEMAKERS ($9.95) With more than 900,000 copies sold, you just know it's a book that should be in your kitchen library. Originally published in 1959, many of the recipes are family treasures which have been passed down for generations from such famous wine family names as: Mondavi, Sebastiani, Parducci, Mirassou, Wente, Martini, Concannon, Cella, Franzia, Gallo, Bacigalupi, Seghesio, Heitz, Ficklin and more. Would you believe more than 500 recipes for $10?

IN PRAISE OF WINE ($12.95) by Joni G. McNutt. An amazing collection of wine-oriented quotes from every possible source and from throughout recorded history. From the bible to Buchwald; Pliny the Elder to Louis Pasteur; Thomas Jefferson to King Henry VII. Some of the more modem quotes are especially amusing, such as: "Warm Dom is better than cold Bud" or "Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man." If wine is your hobby, your business, a special part of your life in any way, you'll definitely want this book in your library.

THE VINTNER'S ART. HOW GREAT WINES ARE MADE ($40) by Hugh Johnson & James Halliday. Two of the world's most popular wine writers (one of them a winemaker in his own right) get together to explain the winemaking process from the vineyard up. The boys even attempt to explain why Cabernets grown in Bordeaux, California and Australia all tend to taste both alike and different.

OZ CLARKE'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WINE ($35) by Oz Clarke, the only writer alive who is more prolific than Hugh Johnson. Truly encyclopedic, from Abruzzo to Zinfandel, with guest consultants such as Rosemary George, James Halliday and Norm Robby. 450 pages, hardbound.

WINE ATLAS OF CALIFORNIA & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ($45) by Bob Thompson. Large format, 240 pages, great maps and charts, color photos. Strong emphasis on American Viticultural Areas, with brief winery bios. Also covers restaurants, lodgings and other tourist attractions in wine country.

ZINFANDEL COOKBOOK, Food to Go With California's Heritage Wine ($14.95), by Jan Nix and Margaret Smith. The title says it all. The dishes are contemporary, health conscious and quite stylish.

WORLD ATLAS OF WINE, FOURTH EDITION ($50) by Hugh Johnson. The king of international wine books for two decades in a new totally revised and expanded edition with more maps and graphs (one of its strong points) than ever, expanded coverage of California, Washington, Oregon, South America and more.

NAPA WINE, A History From Mission Days To Present ($29.95), by Charles Sullivan is a comprehensive 442 page work that is very well referenced to a huge list of sources. You'll find all the names you expect, like Beringer, Krug and Schram, and many equally important ones which died out during that scourge known as Prohibition. The book's chapters cover specific time periods, and there's a huge index and bibliography to help find whatever you are looking for. A pleasure to read, "Napa Wine" proves that facts can be entertaining and fun.

GRANDS VINS, The Finest Chateaux of Bordeaux and Their Wines ($45.00). This massive, large format book is the most comprehensive and current reference on the subject.

There are in-depth articles on 100 different properties and vintage notes from the present back to 1928. This is the essential book on Bordeaux today. It is lucid and pleasant reading and a fascinating lesson in contemporary wine- making techniques and above all a celebration of preeminent wines. Cloth, 736 pages.

THE NAPA & SONOMA BOOK, A Complete Guide ($16.95) by Timothy Fish and Peg Melnik. One of the best Napa/Sonoma wine books to come along is now in its second edition (and totally revised) and doesn't even have wine in the title. It's a tour book, plain and simple, but touring Napa and Sonoma means wine! While very strong on winery listings, maps and directions, the book also covers history, transportation, lodgings, culture, restaurants & food purveyors, recreation and shopping. It really is a "complete" guide.