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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine: How to
Buy, Drink, and Enjoy Wine
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Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, authors of The
Wall Street Journal's popular "Tastings"
column, have now completely updated and expanded their
uniquely user-friendly guide to finding and savoring
the world's best wine. As in the first edition, Dottie
and John-as they are known to their fans-offer practical,
knowledgeable tips to guide you through the bewildering
rows of bottles found in wine stores and groceries. |
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Though it drinks
deep of its subject, The Wine Bible deftly
avoids two traps many wine books fall into:
talking down to wine novices or talking up
to more experienced enophiles. The book avoids
these traps through MacNeil's obvious, and
infectious, love of her subject, which comes
out in almost every sentence of the book,
and which lets her talk about wine in a way
that combines the good teacher, the trusted
friend, and the expert sommelier.
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Great
Wine Made Simple : Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier
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About one-third
of the way through Andrea Immer's Great Wine
Made Simple, the author recounts an anecdote
that could serve as the book's theme--alligator,
rabbit, and squab were all introduced to her
the same way: "Tastes like chicken."
And as demonstrated by Immer, who went from
debentures to de Rothschild when she quit
Morgan Stanley to eventually oversee the 50,000-bottle
cellar at Manhattan's famed Windows on the
World, the leap from pigeon to Pichon-Lalande
is analogous: teaching novice wine drinkers
what to expect is what her book, aptly subtitled
"Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier",
is all about.
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The World Atlas of
Wine is something of a dream-team production. The
names Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson alone recommend
any book on which they appear. The fifth edition
(in 30 years) of this astonishingly successful book
lives up to, and surpasses, its predecessors. In
350 densely packed but never clotted pages the authors
manage the extraordinary feat of characterizing
wine production throughout the world.
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The
Wine Lover's Companion
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Rich facts and details
about wine spice a compendium of wine information,
from grape varieties and ordering wine to understanding
the world's wine-growing regions. More than 3500
wine-related terms are explained in a fine dictionary-style
presentation.
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Andrea
Immer's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone
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Aiming to provide practical
buying guidance on more than 400 of the most popular
and available wines on the market, Andrea Immer's
Wine Buying Guide for Everyone narrowly misses the
mark. Immer, a master sommelier and author of Great
Wine Made Simple, devotes the bulk of this buying
guide to lists, such as "30 Most Popular Chardonnays,"
"The Top 50 Wines You're Not Drinking,"
and "Impress the Date: Hip Wines," and,
in a separate section, short written reviews.
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In Wine for Dummies,
Mary Ewing-Mulligan teams up with hubby and fellow
wine educator Ed McCarthy to guide us on an exhaustive,
entertaining trip around the enological--that's
right, enological--world. Though clearly experts
themselves (Ewing-Mulligan is one of a handful of
Americans holding the rare title Master of Wine),
the authors assure us that even the most basic knowledge
will undermine the very notion of wine pretension.
It's as simple as this: "This wine is named
for a grape variety. This wine is named for a geographical
region. When they make this kind of wine, it goes
into this kind of bottle." And so on.
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The subtitle says it
all: Discovering Wine is, indeed, "a refreshingly
unfussy beginner's guide to finding, tasting, judging,
storing, serving, cellaring, and, most of all, Discovering
Wine." If you thought you'd have to make a
spectacle of yourself in public--sniffing corks,
gargling bordeaux, etc.--in order to become educated
on the subject of wine, relax. Author Joanna Simon
makes it clear that even the most retiring persons
can learn to judge wine without drawing attention
to themselves. Using a combination of pictures and
text, Simon describes the steps involved in tasting,
serving, and storing wine.
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