We aren't talking about your American grandmother's rosé here. Not even close.

Authors of the bestselling wine books Season in Spain and Classic Wines of the Napa Valley, Larry and Ann Walker, travel the pink road tasting dry and lively wines and talking to winemakers, in regions known for rosé, and those about to be, to give us the first global buyers guide to world-class pink wines.

And for rosé-loving cooks, Chef Ann offers several dozen recipes that perfectly compliment pink wine.

Book features:

• Rates over 200 wines from around the globe, and gives detailed tasting notes
• Wines and Producers Indexes for easy in-store selection
• Pink Primer: rose history, and methods employed to make pink wine
• Pink Profiles: Discussions with producers from the U.S.A., France, Iberian Peninsula, South Africa, and beyond
• A case of quality for value
• Dozens of rose friendly recipes

Larry Walker writes on food, wine and travel. His book Classic Wines of the Napa Valley was short-listed for the International Wine Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Wine Companion to Napa and Sonoma. With his wife, Ann Walker, he has written five books: Season in Spain (Simon & Schuster), Pleasures of the Canary Islands (Board and Bench Publishing), Tequila: the Book (Chronicle Books), Tapas (Chronicle Books)and The Best of California (Collins Publishers). Ann Walker is a food educator, Writer, and was co-owner and Executive Chef of Café Tango in San Rafael, the first Spanish tapas restaurant on the West Coast. Working with her husband, Larry Walker, she has written five food and wine books, as mentioned above.