The Simon & Schuster Beginner's Guide to Understanding Wine

The Simon & Schuster Beginner's Guide to Understanding Wine
Author: Michael Schuster
Publisher: Touchstone
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1990
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780671728939
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Appealing to the amateur wine lover as well as the aspiring professional taster, "The Simon & Schuster Beginner's Guide to Understanding Wine" is written to be eminently readable. Michael Schuster's expertise is combined with a well-developed sense of humor, which allows him to avoid -- and have fun with -- the snobbery and occasional absurdity of tasting and understanding wine. This beautiful and accessible guide progresses in three sections. The first explores the techniques of wine tasting -- from knowing what to look for to describing and recording a judgment. Readers are encouraged to experiment and develop their own tasting methods. The second section discusses the major grapes and their wines. The author explains how to discern between wines considered to be "classic" and those that are not, what to expect from the different grapes and their blends, and the different wine-producing areas. He suggests specific wines to taste for comparison and as examples of style and quality. He tops off this section with a chapter covering fortified wines, Cognac, Armagnac, and malt whisky. The final section of the book is devoted to the practicalities of wine and wine drinking: handling, serving and decanting, storage, and record-keeping. An extensive, original index provides an at-a-glance identification chart of the grapes used in all the major wine names. "The Simon & Schuster Beginner's Guide to Understanding Wine" is a friendly, lavishly illustrated introduction to the fundamentals of wine appreciation.

Educating Peter

Educating Peter
Author: Lettie Teague
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0743286782
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The executive editor of "Food & Wine" magazine takes her good friend and complete wine idiot, "Rolling Stone" magazine film critic Peter Travers, on an often hilarious and always informative whirlwind tour of the world of wine.

It's Wine Time

It's Wine Time
Author: Chris Losh
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1912983370
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Discover all the answers to your wine-based fears and never pick a 'bad' bottle again with this this fun and accessible guide to everything red, white, rosé and sparkling.

White Whine

White Whine
Author: Streeter Seidell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-09-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1440557144
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No matter how good you have it--there's always something to whine about White Whine chronicles the everyday difficulties that plague our lives. From having too much food to eat and desperately needing the latest version of the iPhone to the ever-present inconvenience of having a vacation interrupted by a natural disaster, this book is your opportunity to vent your unrelenting hardships. You'll recoil in disbelief at all the injustices in the world and recall your own experiences of losing faith in everything around you. Whether you feel helpless when your phone charger won't reach your bed or you're just pissed your boat won't be ready for Memorial Day, you will enjoy pounding out your first-world problems with White Whine.

The Wine Pioneers

The Wine Pioneers
Author: Anton Massel
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0970493223
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At first there were the horticulturists and wine growers, then came the wine makers, the coopers, and the cellar masters. Inevitably there were wine shippers and wine merchants. Chemists and biologists added their skills in the past two centuries, and only very recently came the oenologists and the professional wine tasters. Wine writers play an important role in today's wine trade, and there were always wine connoisseurs and wine snobs. From 5000BC to the modern day, this book provides a chronological history of the wine pioneers through the ages.

Amber Revolution

Amber Revolution
Author: Simon J Woolf
Publisher:
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Release: 2021-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781623718572
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A must-have volume for all wine lovers and those who love orange wine. Written by renowned orange wine expert and award winning writer Simon J. Woolf, Amber Revolution is the world's first book to tell the full, forgotten story of this ancient wine (white wine made like a red wine) and its modern struggle to gain acceptance. It is a tale of lost identity, the fight for survival, and pioneering winemakers--from the Caucasus to the Adriatic. White grapes are left in contact with their skins for days, weeks or months during fermentation, creating stunning complexity, unusual aromas and intense flavors. The extended skin contact gives these wines bold amber, russet, or orange tints. The technique is ancient, but the hype is new and fast growing. This book includes profiles of 180 of the best producers from 20 countries worldwide and is crammed full of all the information you need to find the best orange wines worldwide together with tips for how to buy, enjoy, food-match and age them. Beautifully illustrated with over 150 specially commissioned photos, Amber Revolution is an essential reference work for any wine lover, sommelier, retailer or producer who loves orange wine. Written by renowned orange wine expert and award winning writer Simon J. Woolf, Amber Revolution is the world's first book to tell the full, forgotten story of this ancient wine (white wine made like a red wine) and its modern struggle to gain acceptance. It is a tale of lost identity, the fight for survival, and pioneering winemakers--from the Caucasus to the Adriatic. White grapes are left in contact with their skins for days, weeks or months during fermentation, creating stunning complexity, unusual aromas and intense flavors. The extended skin contact gives these wines bold amber, russet, or orange tints. The technique is ancient, but the hype is new and fast growing. This book includes profiles of 180 of the best producers from 20 countries worldwide and is crammed full of all the information you need to find the best orange wines worldwide together with tips for how to buy, enjoy, food-match and age them. Beautifully illustrated with over 150 specially commissioned photos, Amber Revolution is an essential reference work for any wine lover, sommelier, retailer or producer who loves orange wine.