Wine Uncorked: A Practical Introduction to Tasting and Enjoying Wine

By: Fiona Beckett
ISBN: 1-57223-201-3
List Price: $24.50
Willow Creek Press

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Introduction

The flavor wheel

Finding the wines you like

Enjoying wine

Why wine tastes the way it does Where wine is made

Flavor crib

Tasting terms

Index

Acknowledgments

From the Publisher:

Wine Uncorked is a practical introduction to the enjoyable art of tasting and drinking wine.  With the aid of a unique, specially created flavor wheel, it helps you explore and identify the exciting and subtle flavors of wines and choose those you will like best, so that you can select wine with confidence to complement any mood or occasion.

Covers all practical aspects of enjoying wine: tasting wine, matching wine with food, buying, storing, serving and how to determine if wine is faulty

Includes practical tastings of wines from the six most important grape varieties

Explains how grapes are grown, the crucial role of grape varieties and how they are transformed into wine

Includes a tour of the world's major wine areas

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