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Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2004 Edition: A Lively Guide (Windows on the...
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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Sterling; 2004 ed.. edition August 28, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402708882
ISBN-13: 978-1402708886
Product Dimensions:
10.3 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
Product Description
MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD EACH YEAR!
Kevin Zraly's incomparable course ("One of the best start-from-scratch wine books ever written."-- Frank Prial, The New York Times) is still America's top-selling guide to wine. In this year's revised edition, Zraly shares some of the authoritative knowledge on buying wine that he's acquired over the last 30 years: this new, exclusive, and invaluable "How to Buy Wine" section covers retailers, auctions, Internet sites, and just about anywhere a bottle can be purchased. What stays constant is Zraly's inimitable, irreverent style. He answers every question about wine; offers the most up-to-date recommendations; takes you on a country-by-country, region-by-region ratings tour of the latest vintages; and starts you on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur. Abundant full-color labels and maps--some brand new--complete the enticing picture. More current, more informative, more concise and precise than ever, this remains the wine guide against which all others are judged.
Reader Reviews
This book is a fine primer for beginners and a good simplifier of winemaking processes-particularly with describing the involved method for Champagne. Wher the book falls far short is its limited horizon on newer quality areas producing excellent wines: in short, California ia hardly the "end all" for excellence in American wines-Sraly completely ignores the great wine sthat have been coming out of the Northwest. Oregon Pinot Noirs certainly are much more Burgundian than most of California's. Leonetti Merlot and Quilceda Creek Cab have reached worldwide stature-and British Columbia does the finest Icewines now in the world! He also ignores the New Zealnd wines and their great Pinot Noirs , never mind that Cloudy Bay is the benchmark for greatest Sauvignon Blanc in the world. We can't deny California's great importance-but, frankly,its wines are now over produced, overhyped, over oaked -and far, far over priced.If Zraly would just get west of the Hudson and north of LA, he just might widen his perspectives and make this book really valuable in an updated version in tune with the times.
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