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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine Book

You know enough about wine not to require a primer on the subject, but still want "tell-me-more" advice. Or you know your wine, but want to explore the taste and wine-buying expertise of wine authorities you can trust. In either case, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine is for you. Written by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, creators of the paper's highly popular "Tastings" column, the book provides an engagingly personal investigation of wine buying, drinking, and enjoying that's immediately useful--and a pleasure to read. Not meant to be comprehensive, the book instead offers an introduction to 30 major wine types, such as Chardonnay, Bordeaux, Champagne, and Sauternes, among others. The authors then provide notes on favored bottles in each category with a rating--from Yech to the rare Delicious!--with bottles grouped by price. (Three hundred true wine values are noted.) Readers can thus intelligently choose a good pinot noir costing under $30, for example, or a blow-out Sauternes (a style the authors adore) worth its price. In addition, Gaiter and Brecher offer information on wine shopping and etiquette as well as practical tips, such as "How to Open Champagne Without Killing Anybody" or "How to Judge a Wine Store Without Saying a Word." A list of wine books for further self-education rounds out this sound and inviting book. --Arthur BoehmRead More

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    Only hours after Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher's column appears each week in The Wall Street Journal, wine retailers from coast to coast are sold out of the couple's recommendations. Why? With a friendly style that is neither intimidating nor condescending, Dorothy and John provide straight talk for consumers who don't want to be taken for a ride, but do want to get maximum enjoyment from the abundance of good wines available today.

    If you're like most people, when it comes to buying wine, you're lost. You walk into a wine shop and you're overwhelmed by the thousands of bottles staring back at you. So you probably pick up the same, safe Chardonnay or Merlot, afraid to take a chance on something different.

    Dorothy and John know how you feel. They write their hugely popular "Tastings" column in the "Weekend Journal" for a frustrated majority: people who can afford more and better wine, who want to know more about wine, but who don't know where to begin.

    In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine, they share everything you need to know about buying, drinking, and enjoying wine, along with listings of 300 great wine values to get you started. They encourage you to start at the beginning: Buy two bottles of similar wines, put them in numbered brown-paper bags, and taste them. You will like one better than the other. And that is how your wine education begins.

    The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine features thirty different kinds of wine in all price ranges, from popular Chardonnays and Merlots to less familiar, but readily available, Gewürztraminers and Dolcettos. Can't find a particular wine mentioned? Look for one from the same region in the same price range.

    Throughout the book you'll find helpful information on chilling wine, choosing a wine store, inviting your friends to a wine-tasting, and how to remember that wine you really liked. There are practical tips: what 12 basic bottles you should have on hand at all times, as well as how long to keep that special bottle of Bordeaux.

    Through it all, John and Dorothy make it clear that wine isn't an end in itself, but just one part of a good life. This book is not just about wine, but about life, love, romance, and fun. Drink up!

  • 0767903897
  • 9780767903899
  • Dorothy J. Gaiter, John Brecher
  • 1 November 1999
  • Broadway Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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