How to Uncover Outstanding Wine Tasting Book for Geeks Is Wine Folly the best wine tasting book for you? You are looking for a single wine tasting book to find the best information about how to taste wine, yes? This dynamic wine tasting book, with its colorful, fun, easy-to-read infographics, is one of the best […]
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Wine Basics For Beginners When it comes to wine basics for beginners, one of the best resources can be found in the sommelier world. A sommelier is a wine enthusiast who, at top restaurants, earned educational credentials as a specialist in wine. Like most people who want to learn about wine, sommeliers start out learning
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3 Powerful Secrets of a Wine Importer Do you love wine enough to devote a career to it? Certain people do. In the style of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel On The Road , they see the career of a wine importer as a wine-fueled adventure – and also a way of making a livelihood. The
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How to Get Into Wine As far as conversation starters go, asking someone how to get into wine will elicit a stimulating conversation. In recounting their own stories, many people might point to wine-focused family dinners. Others might mention an influential boyfriend or girlfriend who introduced them into wine. Some people might suggest that
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The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil Reviewed by Marisa D’Vari Imagine yourself at one of the popular new wine bars in your town. You are sipping a glass of red wine perfumed with notes of violet and lavender – a…
Best Books for Wine Lovers When it comes to learning about wine, everyone seems to have their own opinion. Some people think the best way to learn about wine is in a class. Other people think the best way to learn about wine is with a book. Bianca Bosker, author of Cork Dork, did just
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Tips for Wine Auctions Ever since the Rudi Kurniawan exposure, wine collectors all over the world are concerned about fraud. This is especially true during wine auctions. The story of how wine counterfeiter Rudi Kurniawan managed to hoodwink some of the most powerful wine collectors, auctioneers, and renown experts in the wine industry is intriguing
Book Review: Wine Science If you’re a student of wine–or you just like to know how grapes grow and they make wine–you will definitely appreciate the book Wine Science. This book, weighing in at almost three pounds, is a requirement of students in the UC Davis Winemaking program. In my decade of taking an assortment
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How to Taste Wine How many times have you read an article in your favorite magazine and wondered how the author found so many flavors in a wine? And where did those wine descriptions come from? Descriptions like velvet, tannin, and suede? Or maybe you’re out for drinks, and that know-it-all friend of yours dominates
Story of Jess Jackson Do you love the buttery rich style of California Chardonnay? Many Americans feel that this style, widely attributed to Jess Jackson, is the typical California style. Yet before the 1980s, grocery store shelves groaned with “fake” Chardonnay made from grapes such as Ugni Blanc, grown in Central California. And most consumers
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