Wine Tasting

Paperback

Published: 24/09/2010

Extent: 224 pages

Illustrations: Full colour illustrations and photographs

Series: TY Home Reference

 

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Wine Tasting will help you to discover wines you enjoy, and to feel confident about your choices in every situation. It will give you a step-by-step guide to wine appreciation and explain the facts you need to find wines that suit your taste. It covers all the major grape varieties and wine-making styles, and offers plenty of practical information about how to buy, store and serve wine, whatever your personal preference.

Wine Tasting includes:

Part one: where to begin

Chapter 1: Getting started

Chapter 2: How to taste wine

Part two: the flavours of wine

Chapter 3: Grape varieties

Chapter 4: Climate and place

Chapter 5: The winemaker

Chapter 6: Understanding your own taste

Part three: Wines of the world

Chapter 7: How to identify wine styles

Chapter 8: Wine regions: Europe

Chapter 9: Wine regions: the new world

Part four: Buying, serving and storing wine

Chapter 10: Wine with food

Chapter 11: Serving wine

Chapter 12: Understanding wine labels

Chapter 13: Buying wine

Chapter 14: Storing wine

• helps you to discover what you do and don't like, and to really develop your tastes

• covers storing, buying and ordering in restaurants as well as serving at dinners and parties

• covers all the major grape varieties from both the New and Old Worlds

• designed for complete beginners as well as enthusiastic amateurs

• written by one of the UK's most acclaimed wine journalists

• knowing which wines you do and don't enjoy will give you confidence in every wine-drinking situation

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: What is wine?
Chapter 2: How to taste wine
Chapter 3: The flavours of wine: grape varieties
Chapter 4: The flavours of wine: climate
Chapter 5: The flavours of wine: the winemaker
Chapter 6: The flavours of wine: understanding your own taste
Chapter 7: How to identify wine styles
Chapter 8: Wine regions: Europe; Chapter 9: Wine regions: New World
Chapter 10: Wine with food
Chapter 11: Understanding wine labels
Chapter 12: Buying wine
Chapter 13: Serving wine
Chapter 14: Storing wine
Chapter 15: Learning more...
What Wine and When?
Glossary

About the Author(s):

Beverley Blanning is a freelance journalist, and regular feature writer and taster for Decanter magazine. She is an award winning Master of Wine and has contributed as an expert to a number of newspapers, magazines and radio programmes, in addition to educating about wine through consumer tastings, corporate events and Christie's Wine Course.

Readership:
Anyone interested in wines and wine tasting.

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