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Knack Wine Basics: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Understanding, Selecting & Enjoying Wine

✍️ Boehmer, Alan
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4.4
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🏛 Globe Pequot Publishing 📅 2009 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781599215402

📝 Description: Knack Wine Basics: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Understanding, Selecting & Enjoying Wine

For those new to wine or for dabblers who could use some help deciphering foreign labels, "Knack Wine Basics "brings unprecedented clarity to the world of the world's most ubiquitous libation. By a California-based expert--and including 400 full-color photos, ten recipes, and twelve maps--it covers everything from how to read a label to entertaining with wine; ordering and serving wine; food and wine pairings; cooking with wine; profiles of red, white, rose, and sparkling wine; wine from all regions of the world; and how to interpret wine ratings.

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This richly illustrated guide delivers practical, highly accessible instruction for anyone looking to decode foreign labels and build basic confidence in wine selection. It is exceptionally well-suited for novices and casual drinkers who learn best through visual aids, maps, and straightforward culinary applications like cooking with wine and simple recipes. However, advanced oenophiles, seasoned collectors, or professional sommeliers seeking deep technical analysis, vintage variation charts, or advanced tasting notes will find it far too elementary. Readers well-versed in viticulture should look elsewhere, but it remains a solid bookshelf addition for complete beginners.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

This richly illustrated guide delivers practical, highly accessible instruction for anyone looking to decode foreign labels and build basic confidence in wine selection. It is exceptionally well-suited for novices and casual drinkers who learn best through visual aids, maps, and straightforward culinary applications like cooking with wine and simple recipes. However, advanced oenophiles, seasoned collectors, or professional sommeliers seeking deep technical analysis, vintage variation charts, or advanced tasting notes will find it far too elementary. Readers well-versed in viticulture should look elsewhere, but it remains a solid bookshelf addition for complete beginners.

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