9780891040750 - Which Wine (1 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. A good copy of ""One of the most easily understood books on wine ever written in English. It is a great guide for the amateur and the connoisseur as well."--Craig Claiborne" Shelf-wear to covers. Scratching to both covers. Small divots on front cover continue until the Table of Contents. A crease is along the length of the spine. Smudging and a small spot on the back cover. Text is clean with no markings. Illustrated including 6 leaves of plates. From verso:"First published 1975.This A & W Visual Library edition published by A & W Publishers Inc."Wear to bottom edging. 242 pages. Contents:"Preface; Introduction; Part One: Before You Buy:What You Need to Know to Purchase Wine; Identifying Wine: The Four Basic Terms; Wine Laws; How to Read a Wine Label; Vintage and Reality; The Art of Making Wine; Your Wine Merchant; Part Two: Purchasing: Guide To Specific Wine Recommendations: How to Use the Guide; The Tastings; Purchase Recommendations by Wine-Types; Red Wines: French Red Bordeaux, Bordeaux-Style Wines, and California Cabernet Sauvignon; French Red Burgundies, Burgundy-Style Wines, and California Pinot Noir; Beaujolais; Zinfandel; Italian Chianti, California Chianti, and Related Hearty Reds; Bardolino and Valpolicella; Two California Varietals: Gamay Beaujolais and Napa Gamay; White Wines: The Chardonnay Grape: French White Burgundies and California Pinot Chardonnay; The Riesling Grape, German and Alsatian White Wines, California Johannisberg Riesling, and Gewurztraminer; White Bordeaux, the Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon Grapes; California Chenin Blanc and Wines of the Lower Loire Valley; The Everyday White Wines: Non-French Chablis and Sauterne; White Wines in the German Style; White Wines of Italy, Spain, and Portugal; Roses; Other North American Wines: U. S. Wines Produced East of the Rockies and Canadian-Produced Wines; Food and Wine: Enjoying Wine with Food; Food and Wine Chart; Cheese and Wine Chart; Part Three: Background: Storage, Decanting, Glassware, and Bottle Shapes; How to Give a Wine Tasting; Appendixes: Acknowledgments; Wine as an Industry; Words Used to Describe Wine; The Best Vineyards and Estates of the German Wine Regions; Important Burgundy Estates; Some Dependable Bordeaux Shippers; Reliable Burgundy Shippers; Reliable Shippers of Rhine, Moselle, and Alsatian Wines; Alexis Lichine's Suggested Classification of the Grands Crus Rouges de Bordeaux; Maps: France, Spain and Portugal, and California; Bibliography; Index" From front cover:""Which Wine?" provides explicit direction to better wines, of higher value, at lower prices.(It's) an insider's guide to better buys in the marketplace.a whole home-study course for the budding wine enthusiast en route to connoisseurdom."--Robert Lawrence Balzer".