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The Periodic Table of Wine is a fun, concise, and appealingly geeky new concept to wine appreciation. The foundation of the book is a periodic table designed to give a visual overview of how different styles of the worlds wines relate to one another. Beginning with white wines in columns on the left, the table then highlights rosé in the middle, and then reds in the columns on the right. The rows, running from top to bottom, are organized by quality...
3) Nose
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Egotistic wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones gives a bottle of Cabernet the highest score on his self-devised scale, but the bottle's unknown provenance leads to problems ranging from compromised positions in a fermentation tank and an internal family squabble becoming a public scandal.
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272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
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"From how grapes are grown, harvested and turned into wine, to judging the color, aroma, and taste of the world's most popular varietals, to understanding terroir and feeling confident ordering and serving wine at any occasion, this book explains it all in the simplest possible way."--
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"Tasting Wine and Cheese explains how to taste, evaluate and appreciate wine and cheese, helping you learn how 'taste' works, how to think about food and wine in general, and how to bring them together in combinations that will bring a smile to your face! But, learning is only half the fun. Tasting Wine and Cheese accompanies you on a tasty safari into pairing principles through individual chapters that highlight wines and the cheeses that love them....
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ix, 310 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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Tom Stevenson's new guide pops the cork on the world's most widely available wines, revealing which are consistently the best-- whatever the vintage. It will enable you to buy branded wines that taste fabulous year in and year out without worrying about the year of production. This user-friendly resource lists recommended wines conveniently grouped by style with each wine given a $, $$, or $$$ price category; an A-Z section to find your favorite wine...
9) Somm
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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How much do you think you know about wine? The Court of Master Sommeliers is one of the world's most prestigious and exclusive organizations. Since its inception, fewer than 200 candidates have reached the exalted Master level. The Master Sommelier Exam covers every nuance of the world of wine. Those who have passed have put their sanity at risk to pull it off. Shrouded in secrecy, access to the Court has always been strictly regulated and cameras...
11) The wine bible
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xii, 996 pages ; 23 cm
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A lively course from an expert teacher, The Wine Bible grounds the reader deeply in the fundamentals while layering on informative asides, tips, amusing anecdotes, definitions, glossaries, photos, maps, labels, and recommended bottles. Karen MacNeil's information comes directly through primary research; for this second edition she has tasted more than 10,000 wines and visited dozens of wine regions around the world. New to the book are wines of China,...
12) Wine for dummies
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xviii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Get up to speed on which wines are "in." You'll learn how to get started in the wonderful world of wine, and take your hobby to the next level as you learn to rate wines, store wine properly, and decode restaurant wine lists--
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317 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
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"Wine Folly became a sensation for its inventive, easy-to-digest approach to learning about wine. Now in a new, expanded hardcover edition, Wine Folly: Magnum Edition is the perfect guide for anyone looking to take his or her wine knowledge to the next level"--
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xiii, 338 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
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Looks at how and where wine is made and how this affects its quality and pricing, including information on how the professionals taste and rate wine and a country-by-country tour of the latest vintages.
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xix, 329 pages ; 21 cm
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A tech reporter describes her introduction to the world of master sommeliers and her in-depth investigation into the source of their interests and skills, an effort marked by work with elite tasting groups, encounters at exclusive New York restaurants, visits to California winemakers and more.--
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295 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"An introduction to the wines of Italy by region and grape, focusing on how the history of the country shaped Italian wines today and how modern winemakers are looking to the past to revive the industry. Italian Wine explores each of Italy's 20 regions and details the history, land, grape varietals, food pairings, and suggested producers for each region"--
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