Good Wine Guide 2002 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789480298 ISBN 13: 9780789480293

Synopsis

For the connoisseur, casual wine drinker, and bargain hunter. This authoritative and irreverent guide is bigger and better than ever before --2,750 updated A-Z entries, listing suppliers across the US. Includes 96-page mini-encyclopedia. Advice on tasting, buying, storing, and serving, with 500 food and wine pairings. Retailers, wine vacations, and courses. Useful pronunciation guide. Over 100 essential wine websites.

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: 0789480298
• ISBN 13: 9780789480293
• Binding: Hardcover