Good Wine Guide 2001 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789462451 ISBN 13: 9780789462459

Synopsis

A combined buyer's guide and A-Z encyclopedia.

Here is the idea introduction for anyone interested in developing an appreciation for fine wine. Written in an accessible style, this book examines over 150 wines representing all the major wine-producing regions of the world. Particular focus is given to a range of wines specially selected as ideal examples of their kind. Award winning writer and wine expert Robert Joseph offers a fascinating and thorough wine-tasting course with advice on all aspects of presenting, selecting, and enjoying a world of wine. For the connoisseur, casual wine drinker, and bargain hunter, Good Wine Guide 2001 is bigger and better than ever before--includes Wine of the Web, with over 100 essential websites; provides wine basics, a wine A-Z, and suppliers across the US; 2,750 updated entries; advice on tasting, buying , storing, and serving; 500 food and wine pairings; Retailers, wine vacations, and courses; a useful pronunciation guide; and news update on wine and health.

About this title

Review

As the rather brash, opinionated editor of the 2002 edition of the Good Wine Guide, Robert Joseph, founder of Wine magazine, columnist for The Sunday Telegraph and Web site host, presents a glossy volume as unctuously meretricious as an over-oaked Chardonnay. At over 400 pages, the Good Wine Guide 2002 will never pass as one of the numerous "pocket" wine guides saturating the market, but it does share similar traits, albeit in puzzling proportions. Barely more than half the book is devoted to an A-to-Z of the entire world of wine, including terminology and producers (the entries for some of which being egregiously flip), while Joseph dedicates a whopping 18 pages to the preferred padding of pocket guides everywhere--food and wine matches. Better are features such as full-colour pages depicting wine labels from around the world, and how to read them. And if California "White Merlot" does become the next big thing, it'll just go to prove that Robert Joseph is better at prognostication than presentation. --Tony Mason

Review

Acclaimed wine writer and co-launcher of the world's biggest wine competition, "International Wine Challenge", Robert Joseph, brings all the information you will ever need about wine between the covers of this highly informative and often entertaining guidebook. From the background and insider's view of the industry through how to choose, store, and serve wine, to food/wine recommendations and an extensive 2003 wine catalogue including competition winners. The guide is well laid-out and easy to understand, intelligent enough to appease wine connoisseurs and simple enough for the novice. This is an ideal gift for all those interested in vinous facts and flavours. - Lucy Watson

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789462451
• ISBN 13: 9780789462459
• Binding: Hardcover