The Wine Access Buyer's Guide

The Wine Access Buyer's Guide
Author: Stephen Tanzer
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781402728167

Finally, a wine guide that helps you select outstanding wines from every important region and in every price range and track down and purchase the bottles you want. Renowned wine critic Stephen Tanzer, author of the bimonthly International Wine Cellar newsletter, has teamed up with WineAccess.com, the Internet's leading search engine for fine wine, to create the ultimate buying tool for experienced wine drinkers and neophytes alike. This concise and lucid guide provides a brief overview of every important category of wine, and recommends the best wines from the top producers in every important wine-growing region of the world. Then, through your free subscription to WineAccess's proprietary website, you can find and purchase the thousands of wines recommended in the guide, at the lowest prices, from WineAccess's network of retail merchants around the U.S. Your access to the website also entitles you to ongoing updates of the guide for 12 months, with ratings of new vintages added as wines appear on the shelves.

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition
Author: Robert M. Parker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780743271981

Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker's stated goal: "To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision." Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information. The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls "the most powerful critic of any kind."

WineSpeak

WineSpeak
Author: Bernard Klem
Publisher: Board and Bench Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0980064805

If you read wine reviews, you're already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they're smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what's so colorfully described as a peacock's tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you're in for a treat, because these terms and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle, and utterly shock you . Welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wine speak: a world where words and wine intersect in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. The author, a lifelong lover of both wine and words, has compiled and organized this unique thesaurus of 36,975 wine tasting descriptors into 20 special collections extracted from 27 categories so you can locate exactly the right term or phrase to express yourself clearly or to understand others. May your path across the galaxy of wine be paved only with labels from the very best bottles on earth. Or, much more cautiously, with wines that could introduce you to angel pee, citronella, eastern European fruit soup, Godzilla, iodine, ladies' underwear, mustard gas, old running shoes, rawhide, hot tar roads, bubblegum, sweaty saddles, crushed ants, kitchen drains, or even turpentine.

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide
Author: Robert M. Parker (Jr.)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1654
Release: 2002
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780743229319

Parker's acclaimed guide, fully revised with ratings on the latest vintages from around the world, is one of the most authoritative wine guides available and now comes with expanded sections on the popular wines of California and Italy.

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition
Author: Robert M. Parker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 1539
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1439139970

Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information. The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls “the most powerful critic of any kind.”

Hachette Wine Guide

Hachette Wine Guide
Author: Hachette (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1200
Release: 2000
Genre: Wine and wine making
ISBN: 9781842020678

Unique, astonishingly comprehensive, and with over 8,000 French wines selected from 28,000 tasted blind, this ultimate guide offers irresistibly tempting suggestions. Each entry includes 20 separate pieces of information-many given in compact symbols and found in this book alone-and there are four indexes, so you can look up a wine by its name, producer, appellation, or commune. For every winemaking region in France, you'll get the latest news on the past year's vintage.

The Great Canadian Book of Lists

The Great Canadian Book of Lists
Author: Mark Kearney
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780888822130

Chronicles a century of achievements, trends, important and influential people, and events that have shaped this country.

Terroir and Other Myths of Winegrowing

Terroir and Other Myths of Winegrowing
Author: Mark A. Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0520276957

"Matthews brings a scientist's skepticism and scrutiny to widely held ideas and beliefs about viticulture--often promulgated by people who have not tried to grow grapes for a living--and subjects them to critical examination: Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures our understanding of which environments really produce the best wine? Can grapevines that yield a high berry crop generate wines of high quality? What does it mean to have vines that are balanced or grapes that are fully mature? Do biodynamic practices violate biological principles? These and other questions will be addressed in a book that could alternatively be titled (in homage to a PUP bestseller) On Wine Bullshit"--Provided by publisher.

The Wine Buyer's Guide

The Wine Buyer's Guide
Author: Robert Parker
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 1222
Release: 1996
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780751303421

With this fourth edition of Parker's Wine Buyers' Guide, Robert Parker once again makes the world of wine accessible to everyone. The book includes information on how to buy and store wine, and how to find the best wine values for under $7.00.

Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2012

Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2012
Author: Michael Cooper
Publisher: Hodder Moa
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1869712668

The best-selling Buyer?s Guide is now in its 21st year of publication. This title is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and vintage ratings, including the most current vintage, this is a `must-have? publication for the new initiate and the established wine-buff alike. This book will help the buyer to make informed choices about the best value and best quality wines available. Divided by grape variety to help selection, this comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, dryness/sweetness guide, retail price and value-for-money ratings. Other features include Classic Wines ? wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages ? as well as sections on `Best Buys of the Year? and a vintage report.