Spit or Swallow - Softcover

Ratcliffe-Wright, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770130616 ISBN 13: 9781770130616

Publisher: Double Storey, 2007

Synopsis

A guide to the essentials of wine covers such topics as how it is made, tasting wine, pairing wine with food, grape varieties, wine etiquette, collecting wine, and serving wine.

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Synopsis

Embarrassed about your wine knowledge? Spit or swallow is written for those wishing to know a little bit more about wine in order for them to enjoy it a lot more. Wine, like foreplay, requires a little effort. With Spit or swallow, you will soon be right on the button, so to speak. Spit or swallow focuses more on the good life of food, wine and pleasure than it does on technical jargon contained in wine speak. It is a guide to living with wine as a healthy and integral part of your daily life. Wine makes food taste better, it makes occasions more memorable and it makes us happy. Spit or swallow is here to give a fresh approach and make the whole wine-thing less scary. Wine nerds talk about the characters of a wine as being cheerful, subtle and full of mystery, supple or well rounded. The descriptions are so ambiguous that sometimes you don't know whether to drink them or take them to bed. Wine is a simple subject that has been rendered complicated and boring over time by wine geeks. Although hours of wine babble about soils and vintages is important to the real professionals, all we really want to know is: does it taste good and can I drink it? It is not the intricacies and techni

About this edition

• Publisher: Double Storey
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1770130616
• ISBN 13: 9781770130616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112