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A robust resource to take you from first sip to fully stocked wine cellar! With this guide, you can go from only knowing the difference between red and white to understanding the nuances of all varieties. Youll learn:
- How to make sense of a wine label
- What to ask when choosing a bottle in a restaurant
- Where to go for the best wine vacation
- Ways to identify a good wine by smell and appearance
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THE
EVERYTHING
GUIDE TO
WINE
All you need to know about buying, storing, serving,
and enjoying the world's most remarkable wines
Peter Alig
Wine Educator at Robert Mondavi Winery
Copyright 2010 by F+W Media, Inc.
All rights reserved.
This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced
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are made for brief excerpts used in published reviews.
An Everything Series Book.
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Published by Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc.
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ISBN 10: 1-4405-0748-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-4405-0748-9
eISBN 10: 1-4405-0749-X
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Contains material adapted and abridged from The Everything Wine Book, 2nd Edition, by Barbara Nowak and Beverly Wichman, copyright 1997, 2005 by F+W Media, Inc, ISBN 10:1-59337-357-0, ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-357-3.
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Dear Reader,
When I first went to work for a winery in its hospitality department, I had a wine certification under my belt and a desire to help visitors understand and enjoy wine as much as I did. Then one day a guest asked me a question about our vineyard I could not answer. I apologized profusely, but the guest simply smiled encouragingly, patted me on the back, and we continued our tour.
The guest turned out to be an established winemaker from Germany, someone who knew much more about wine than I did. The way he responded to my ignorance taught me something valuable about the wine industry as a whole: Wine and generosity of spirit seem to go hand in hand. Those who work in the industry bring great passion to their professions as well as a desire to share what they know with others.
This book is a product of that spirit. After reading it, I hope you become inspired to ask questions, taste something unfamiliar, and share your newfound knowledge with others. Even if you don't work in the wine industry itself, you can embody everything it stands for.
Cheers!
These handy, accessible books give you all you need to tackle a difficult project, gain a new hobby, comprehend a fascinating topic, prepare for an exam, or even brush up on something you learned back in school but have since forgotten.
You can choose to read an Everything book from cover to cover or just pick out the information you want from our four useful boxes: e-questions, e-facts, e-alerts, and e-ssentials. We give you everything you need to know on the subject, but throw in a lot of fun stuff along the way, too.
We now have more than 400 Everything books in print, spanning such wide-ranging categories as weddings, pregnancy, cooking, music instruction, foreign language, crafts, pets, New Age, and so much more. When you're done reading them all, you can finally say you know Everything!
Connoisseur's class notes
The sommelier speaks
Tasting tips and tricks
Facts for wine lovers
PUBLISHER Karen Cooper
DIRECTOR OF ACQUISITIONS AND INNOVATION Paula Munier
MANAGING EDITOR, EVERYTHING SERIES Lisa Laing
COPY CHIEF Casey Ebert
ACQUISITIONS EDITOR Katrina Schroeder
SENIOR DEVELOPMENT EDITOR Brett Palana-Shanahan
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Ross Weisman
EVERYTHING SERIES COVER DESIGNER Erin Alexander
LAYOUT DESIGNERS Colleen Cunningham, Elisabeth Lariviere, Ashley Vierra, Denise Wallace
Visit the entire Everything series at www.everything.com
My greatest thanks go to the people of Robert Mondavi Winery, especially Jocelyn Hoar, Anne LeBlanc, Sanda Manuila, Inger Shiffler, and Dana Andrus, who continue to inspire me with their passion and commitment to excellence. I am also indebted to the insights of my teachers along the way: Paul Wagner of Balzac Communications, Paul Mabray of Vintank, Bryan Avila of Nappa Valley College, and Karen MacNeil of the Culinary Institute of America.
Special thanks are also in order for my dear family, who gave me their blessing to go west to play the game of wine. Cheers to you all!
Aged wine is better than young wine.
Not all wines need aging. Generally speaking, red wines particularly those high in tannins require more aging than whites.
Red wine should never be chilled.
Some light reds, like Beaujolais, benefit from chilling.
Reserve wines are top of the line.
Reserve on American wine labels has no legal meaning. Winemakers can use the term at their whim.
Wines with sulfites will give you a headache.
Sulfites are the cause of headaches in only about 1 percent of the population mostly asthmatics.
All German wines are sweet.
German wines come in all degrees of sweetness from dry to very, very sweet. Trocken on a German wine label means dry.
Screw tops are a sign of cheap wine.
Au contraire! Increasingly, top winemakers are using screw tops to avoid cork contamination of their wines.
Wines should always breathe.
In general, breathing is only necessary for wines that need further aging.
All wines have the same amount of alcohol.
The level of alcohol depends on the amount of sugar that has been converted during fermentation.
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