Wine Made Easy
Susy Atkins(Editor)
Mitchell Beazley (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84533-247-1 (ISBN)
Description
For anyone who enjoys a glass of wine, this book offers a fresh approach to the basics of wine covering all the essential topics - from choosing and storing to labels, grapes, and food matching. "Wine Made Easy" offers a fresh approach to the basics of wine providing a complete introductory course that covers all the essential wine topics that any wine-drinker can understand. Easy-to-follow chapters cover a number of subjects including buying and storing wine, how to understand labels, grape varieties and wine styles, the taste of wine and how to taste, wine and health, and matching your favourite dishes to the perfect wine (with clear user-friendly charts). Covering all angles, the book includes information on the production and taste of vegetarian/vegan and organic and biodynamic wines for example. Written in a short, sharp, snappy, and totally accessible style, the book features full-colour photographs and a straightforward design, and offers a stylish package from a high-profile wine expert and author.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84533-247-1 (9781845332471)
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Persons
Susy Atkins is lead guest expert on Richard and Judy's Wine Club, appears regularly on TV and radio, and was named Wine Communicator of the Year in 2004. She is wine editor for delicious magazine and a senior contributor to the Which? Wine Guide. She has written for many national newspapers and magazines and is a regular contributor to BBC Good Food, Wine International, and Which? magazine. She is co-author of Drink! Never Mind the Peanuts which won the Glenfiddich Drink Book of the Year 2002, and is author of the bestselling Girls' Guide to Wine (over 36,000 copies sold), and Wine. She is She lives in Exeter.
Content
06 Introduction; 10 Choosing & Buying; 28 Serving & Storing; 42 Touring the World; 66 The Taste of Wine; 86 Grape Varieties; 110 Wine Styles; 132 Wine & Food Matching; 150 Wine & Health; 159 Glossary; 160 Index.