The Wine Flavour Guide: How to Pick the Best Wine for Every Occasion. This item is unavailable.The Wine Flavour Guide: How to Pick the Best Wine for Every Occasion

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARD FOR DEBUT DRINK BOOK 2025 **
** The infographic book all wine lovers and connoisseurs need **

‘Tells you everything you need to know about wine and how to get the best out of it’ The Field

‘This is all about how your palate works, how you can taste different fruits. Bleeding fantastic’ Tom Gilbey

Discover Sam Caporn’s exclusive Wine Flavour Tree: the only guide you’ll need to demystify the 10 major categories of wine and determine your best option on any budget and for any occasion.

Sam Caporn is one of just over 400 people in the world to hold the expert status of Master of Wine. Drawing on three decades of experience tasting thousands of bottles as a consultant for brands and supermarkets, this informative visual guide to flavours covers:

· How to decode any wine label and buy the best value bottle
· Which wines you are likeliest to enjoy on a menu
· Simple expert tips for pairing your meal with a delicious wine
· What the names of wine styles can tell you about quality
· How wine is made and categorised around the world

By mastering the Wine Flavour Tree, you’ll never stand in the wine aisle for long, order the second cheapest option on the menu, or pick wines that overwhelm your palate again.

‘Easy to follow, excellent advice and tasting guides that’s enabled me to branch out and try new delicious wines!' 5* reader review

‘The wine flavour tree is ingenious! The book also has great food recipes and matches wines to them which I love.' 5* reader review

‘Genuinely helps me to make a better choice in the wine shop about what I might like, at the same time as being able to try something new without too much risk!' 5* reader review

‘The graphics and infographics make learning fun and you’ll remember it all too! Wine terms, facts and processes are demystified' 5* reader review

Sam Caporn is a wine expert who has written about wine and travelled the world extensively, buying and blending wines for the UK market for over 20 years. In addition to being only one of 414 people to hold the 'Master of Wine' qualification, she also holds the Madame Bollinger Medal for Outstanding Achievement for her ability to identify wines based on smell and taste alone. She runs wine tasting events and works as a consultant across the wine industry. She is a regular judge for Which? magazine, co-chairs the International Wine Challenge and has shared her wine expertise on Saturday Kitchen and This Morning.