WineWise
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The James Beard Award-winning classic “for beginners or professionals who want all the facts and stories in a concise, easy-to-follow format” (Laura Maniec, owner, Corkbuzz Wine Studio).
Now completely revised and updated, this new edition of the essential consumer guide to wine features all the most current information for today’s wine landscape. The authors, longtime wine educators at The Culinary Institute of America, have added all the latest and most relevant information to their award-winning book, including new picks for the best regional producers, off-the-beaten-path finds, and bargain bottles. With a practical, anti-snob attitude, the emphasis is always on enjoying wine to the fullest in real-world scenarios and getting the best value for your dollar, whether splurging on a special-occasion bottle or deciding on your own “house” wine. All the basics are covered, including the major wine grapes, flavor profiles, and decoding labels, plus up-to-date information on established and up-and-coming regions, advice on pairing wine with everything from Korean short ribs to all-American burgers, opinions on wine gadgets (yea or nay?), and more. Cheers!
“Reading WineWise is like having a great conversation about my favorite topic—wine! Enjoy exploring the diverse wine regions and then finish with how to pair wines with food. The ideas and thoughts behind the wine and food pairing chapters just make plain sense, and, of course, you may need another glass of wine.”—Bruce Cakebread, president, Cakebread Cellars
“Nothing pretentious here. WineWise is fun, friendly, and packed with information on wines of the world, particularly ones that won’t break the bank.”—Tara Q. Thomas, executive editor, Wine & Spirits
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 2009 edition of WineWise earned both a James Beard Foundation Award and the Georges Duboeuf Award for Best Wine Book of the Year. Now its three authors, all longtime wine professors at the Culinary Institute of America, return with a revised and updated work that accessibly lays out the vast terrain of vino. Brevity is the soul of keeping a reader's attention, and a lot of ground is covered here by breaking out the material into hundreds of short entries grouped across 17 chapters. Chapter one provides a brief compendium of elements that enter into the enjoyment of wine and includes an insightful look at the reasons that a bottle that costs under $30 to produce can end up costing 20 times that amount. Then it is on to roundups of the major white grapes and the major red grapes, their flavor profiles and vineyard regions. Chapters span the globe, cataloguing wines from well established growing areas across the U.S., South America, Australia, South Africa, and Europe, as well as up-and-coming vineyards in Canada and Greece, with visual aids that include maps and scores of wine labels. Back-of-book gems include best practices for at-home wine tastings, a list of value wines, and full permission to enjoy wine from a box, with a proclamation that most are "sound, everyday-drinking wines, and some are quite good."
