The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, third edition - Tapa blanda

A comprehensive education in wine --The Times Literary Supplement

Splendid, concise, up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate --Clive Coates MW, Author of The Wines of Burgundy

Delightful yet sophisticated --Konstantinos Lazarakis MW, Author of The Wines of Greece

Trustworthy and valuable --Richard Hemming MW for JancisRobinson.com

An indispensable guide --Michael Palij MW, Founder of Winetraders and Winematters

Anyone on a wine course should consider this essential reading --Thomas Parker MW, Purchaser at Farr Vintners

Anyone who has experienced the rigours of blind tasting will welcome this book with open arms --Gabriel Savage, Managing Editor, The Drinks Business

Unique in the way it sets out to examine what makes similar wines different --Colin Smith, IWC and IWSC Judge

A book that needed to be written --Matthew Hudson, Course Leader, Plumpton College

A constant reference. --Matthew Whittaker, Sommelier at the Nut Tree Inn

...a book that will be of benefit to anyone taking a Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) course in the coming years. --Paul O'Doherty for JancisRobinson.com

This book is for all those seeking to acquire a deep and systematic appreciation and understanding of wine, whether for exams, work, or pleasure. It outlines a simple yet robust framework for analyzing wine as objectively as possible, and provides all the background knowledge that you need to interpret your findings, covering everything from grape varieties and vineyard management to winemaking techniques and the world's most important wine styles. It seeks throughout to examine in what ways a particular wine is unique and different from other, similar wines. For example, why and in what ways is Pauillac, in Bordeaux, different from Pomerol, also in Bordeaux? Why and in what ways is Mosel Riesling different from Riesling from the Rheingau, or the Nahe, or Alsace, Austria, or Australia? This book is dedicated to all wine lovers, and should prove particularly useful to amateur and competitive blind tasters, students on higher-level wine courses, sommeliers, and anyone else who buys, sells, or recommends wine. "A rigorous, highly focused, well-honed bootcamp manual (Bible might be a better word) for the likes of WSET diploma students, MW students, Master Sommelier students, and anyone else who thinks that blind tasting competitions are a riot." Tamlyn Currin for JancisRobinson.com