The New Wine Lover's Companion
by Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst
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Arranged alphabetically,The New Wine Lover's Companion contains comprehensive definitions for a significant number of wine related terms, including innumerable details on grape varieties; wine styles; wine label terms; how to buy, store, and serve wine; how to have a wine tasting; wine–testing terms; sizes and styles of glassware, wine bottles, and wine openers; ordering wine in a restaurant; temperatures for serving wine; and much more. With The New Wine Lover's Companion as a guide, show more anyone can learn to speak the language of wine with ease, whether ordering it in a restaurant, buying it at a wine shop, or enjoying it at a friend's house. The book's style is relaxed and conversational, serving up information without intimidating its reader. It boasts a totally revised and expanded appendix enhanced with charts, line art, and sample labels. Praise for the previous edition came from many food and dining authorities, such as William Rice, Food and Wine Columnist, Chicago Tribune and Jacques Pepin, cookbook author and TV chef. show lessTags
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This is a great book. Practicly everything I find I want to know about wine is in this book. If it isn't in this book it probbly isn't reelevant to that average person like me. If you love wine, in particular drinking wine, get this book.
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Sharon Tyler Herbst is the award-winning author of fifteen bestselling books on food and drink. She's also a media personality, consultant and spokesperson
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, Reference, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 641.2203 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Drinks Wine
- LCC
- TP546 .H455 — Technology Chemical technology Chemical technology Fermentation industries. Beverages. Alcohol
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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