Complete Wine Course

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This is the world's best-selling, most highly praised wine book.
In Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, Kevin Zraly, America's premier wine expert and teacher, takes the "mystery" out of choosing and enjoying wine.
With his unique flair and fresh approach, Zraly presents a wealth of information that both novice and expert can learn about the best grapes, the winemaking process, tasting wine, and your wine preferences. He takes you on a country-by-country and region-by-region "best buy" ratings tour of the most recent vintages. You'll appreciate his lighthearted style, the glossary of wine terms, tips on stocking and serving wine at home, ordering wine in restaurants (including the how and why of the "tasting ritual" and why it should not intimidate you), and much more.
Dozens of full-color maps and labels from wines you should know supplement the author's style. Windows on the World Complete Wine Course includes stunning photographs that beautifully illuminate the whole... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is the world's best-selling, most highly praised wine book.
In Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, Kevin Zraly, America's premier wine expert and teacher, takes the "mystery" out of choosing and enjoying wine.
With his unique flair and fresh approach, Zraly presents a wealth of information that both novice and expert can learn about the best grapes, the winemaking process, tasting wine, and your wine preferences. He takes you on a country-by-country and region-by-region "best buy" ratings tour of the most recent vintages. You'll appreciate his lighthearted style, the glossary of wine terms, tips on stocking and serving wine at home, ordering wine in restaurants (including the how and why of the "tasting ritual" and why it should not intimidate you), and much more.
Dozens of full-color maps and labels from wines you should know supplement the author's style. Windows on the World Complete Wine Course includes stunning photographs that beautifully illuminate the whole world of wine, from vineyards to wine production.
This extraordinary, easy-to-use, well-designed course is completely updated for 2009 with current wine labels, lists, and prices. There is a sixty-page supplement with Zraly's world famous wine-tasting course complete with the 101 wines you need to know to become an expert. These are the same wines that he pours throughout his course, making it possible for you to set up your own tasting classes at home, whether alone or with a group of friends. Zraly's comments will guide you through each class and flight, and as you taste the most important wines in proper order, he encourages you to explore how region, grape, vintage and style affect the final taste of wine. Once you've worked your way through this class, you'll have acquired a basic understanding of the fundamentals of wine, identified your own preferences, and will be ready for the challenge of expanding your own knowledge of the greater world of wine. Because this list is current, it is also a perfect guide to buying wine whether for everyday use, special occasions, or home cellar. The 2009 edition also includes two pages of questions at the end of each of the eight chapters that will test your understanding
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of the basic material covered in the chapter itself. Available here for the first time, these questions will be enormously helpful if you want to use the guide as a course textbook, as well as provide you with a fun and useful challenge.
Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is a uniquely intoxicating trek through the world of wine that will turn you into an enthusiastic expert.
Kevin Zraly, winner of the 2006 Wine Literary Award, has studied winemaking techniques in all the major wine regions of the world and conducted wine classes for more than thirty years. He worked at the Windows on the World Restaurant from its opening
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