Let Me Tell You About Wine: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Win

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Oz explains how to get maximum enjoyment out of every bottle you buy, from dealing with broken corks, to learning basic tasting techniques, spotting faulty wine, and matching food and wine, whether at home or in a restaurant.

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Oz explains how to get maximum enjoyment out of every bottle you buy, from dealing with broken corks, to learning basic tasting techniques, spotting faulty wine, and matching food and wine, whether at home or in a restaurant.You don't need to know all about wine regions or how wine is made to choose wine with confidence. If you like the sound of intense, blackcurranty reds or aromatic whites, this book will tell you how to find these flavours in the wines you buy, regardless of whether the wine is labelled by grape variety or by country. Drinking wine is all about enjoyment. Oz explains how to get maximum enjoyment out of every bottle you buy, from dealing with broken corks, to learning basic tasting techniques, spotting faulty wine, and matching food and wine, whether at home or in a restaurant. In Oz's down-to-earth guide to all the world's major wine regions you'll find everything you need to know to navigate your way round a wine shop or wine website. Oz explores grape varieties, flavours and styles, giving equal consideration to classic wine regions – such as Bordeaux and Chianti – and the newer wine-producing countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Argentina. Do vintages matter? Are the wines good value for money? Oz tells you everything you really need to know. Gradually building your knowledge with expert tips, information boxes and wines to try, this is a complete guide for the beginner wine enthusiast. Word Count: 55,000

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Subtitled, A Beginner's Guide To Understanding & Enjoying Wine. Explains how to get maximum enjoyment out of every bottle, from dealing with broken corks to matching food and wine, both at home and in a restaurant. With a guide to the major wine regions, this contains everything a wine-lover needs to know about the world of wine.

Author Biography

Oz Clarke is one of the world's leading wine experts, known for his phenomenal palate, irreverent style, accurate predictions, and enthusiasm for life in general and wine in particular. He is the author of many award winning books on wine, including most recently, Wine A-Z, The History of Wine in 100 Bottles, and Grapes & Wines: A Comprehensive Guide to Varieties and Flavours (co-authored with Margaret Rand). Before wine took over his life in 1984, Oz was a full-time actor and singer, appearing in West End hit shows and touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Alongside his entertaining BBC television and radio broadcasts, he currently presents a series of concerts, Drink to Music! with the acclaimed Armonico Consort. Oz is also sports mad.

Description for Sales People

The ultimate, no-nonsense guide to wine No jargon, no snobbery, no previous knowledge assumed Vintages and other information updated with each reprint

Details ISBN1862058652 Author Oz Clarke ISBN-10 1862058652 ISBN-13 9781862058651 Format Hardcover Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 641.22 Language English Pages 200 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-10-03 UK Release Date 2013-10-03 AU Release Date 2013-10-03 NZ Release Date 2013-10-03 Illustrations Over 100 full colour photographs Imprint Pavilion Subtitle A Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Wine Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Audience General We've got this

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