A Toast to Bargain Wines A Toast to Bargain Wines

A Toast to Bargain Wines

How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries Are Changing the Way the World Drinks

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Publisher Description

THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF JUDGMENT OF PARIS EXPLORES THE THRIVING BUSINESS OF BARGAIN WINES AND OFFERS HIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BEST VALUES.

Is inexpensive wine any good? Award-winning author George M. Taber shows that it is, examining the paths to success of the world’s best-selling bargain brands. Taber helps readers learn to trust their taste and make informed decisions when confronting wine lists, and reveals how innovators are turning the old vin ordinaire into something extraordinaire.

A Toast to Bargain Wines is an accessible mix of history, business, and reference, and includes a two-part guide to the world’s best buys: George’s ten favorite bargains of every varietal (plus two splurges in each category), then ten value brands from twelve regions around the world. Casual wine drinkers and connoisseurs alike will benefit from this insider’s guide to finding and enjoying good wine—at a great price.

GENRE
Cookbooks, Food & Wine
RELEASED
2011
November 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
3.4
MB

Customer Reviews

crabbybluedevil ,

Great Read, Stories & Recommendations

George Taber is a great story teller. I've read one of his other books "To Cork or Not To Cork". Also a great read. In this book George explains that it is NOT imperative to buy adequately tasting wine for a very reasonable price. Notice I'm not using the term 'good' as many have different definitions of the term good.

He profiles the wine industry and it's obsession with rating and scoring. He notes that sometimes wines that are considered 'cheap' often rank highly. And that even in those 'gold medal' categories there are so many winners that the designation of 'gold medal' winner in and of itself is not always as an elite a status as one would believe.

He touches on tasting preferences and even has a cool sheet where you can rank wines you taste. There's a nice chart of tasting profiles that are tailored to your preferences and recommendations for people to 'branch out' of their existing comfort zone.

At the end he has a slew of recommendations that are all under $10 and a few 'splurges' that would be a nice treat. Those splurge wines are still very reasonable in price.

There is not doubt that some wines warrant very expensive prices. However, that doesn't go for everything.

Give this a read. The stories alone are worth the price…and you get recommendations to boot!

More Books by George M Taber

Judgment of Paris Judgment of Paris
2006
In Search of Bacchus In Search of Bacchus
2009
Chasing Gold Chasing Gold
2014