Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings
Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessons

Ever wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.

Find out how aging can affect the final flavor of a wine. Discover why swirling the wine in your glass will have a huge impact on what you smell. Before you know it, you'll be drinking and discussing wine like a sommelier at a winery in the French countryside.

The Wine Taster's Guide includes:

  • Tasting 101—Learn about the science of how we perceive aroma and flavor as well as the steps of wine evaluations—look, swirl, smell, and taste.
  • Regional wines—Head straight to the source with a chapter on the major wine regions of the world, including France, Italy, the United States, and others, plus wine-tasting suggestions that will introduce you to the styles they are known for.
  • Pairings galore—What is wine without food? Learn how to partner like a pro, whether it's brie or blue cheese, steak, or sushi.

Learning everything there is to know about wine has never been more fun and easy than with the Wine Taster's Guide.

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Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings
Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessons

Ever wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.

Find out how aging can affect the final flavor of a wine. Discover why swirling the wine in your glass will have a huge impact on what you smell. Before you know it, you'll be drinking and discussing wine like a sommelier at a winery in the French countryside.

The Wine Taster's Guide includes:

  • Tasting 101—Learn about the science of how we perceive aroma and flavor as well as the steps of wine evaluations—look, swirl, smell, and taste.
  • Regional wines—Head straight to the source with a chapter on the major wine regions of the world, including France, Italy, the United States, and others, plus wine-tasting suggestions that will introduce you to the styles they are known for.
  • Pairings galore—What is wine without food? Learn how to partner like a pro, whether it's brie or blue cheese, steak, or sushi.

Learning everything there is to know about wine has never been more fun and easy than with the Wine Taster's Guide.

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Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings

Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings

by Joe Roberts
Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings

Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings

by Joe Roberts

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Uncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessons

Ever wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink.

Find out how aging can affect the final flavor of a wine. Discover why swirling the wine in your glass will have a huge impact on what you smell. Before you know it, you'll be drinking and discussing wine like a sommelier at a winery in the French countryside.

The Wine Taster's Guide includes:

  • Tasting 101—Learn about the science of how we perceive aroma and flavor as well as the steps of wine evaluations—look, swirl, smell, and taste.
  • Regional wines—Head straight to the source with a chapter on the major wine regions of the world, including France, Italy, the United States, and others, plus wine-tasting suggestions that will introduce you to the styles they are known for.
  • Pairings galore—What is wine without food? Learn how to partner like a pro, whether it's brie or blue cheese, steak, or sushi.

Learning everything there is to know about wine has never been more fun and easy than with the Wine Taster's Guide.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646119608
Publisher: Callisto Publishing
Publication date: 07/21/2020
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

JOE ROBERTS is a writer, blogger, video personality, wine critic, and frequent wine competition judge whose work has appeared in publications as varied as Playboy.com and Parade. He is the host of the podcast 1winedude.com and the author of Wine Taster’s Journal: Drink, Rate, Record, and Remember. He lives near Philadelphia with his daughter, Lorelai.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

How This Books Works viii

About the Wine Tastings viii

1 Tasting 101 1

The Factors That Impact a Wine's Flavor 2

The Science of the Sniff 2

The Science of the Sip 5

How to Taste a Wine 8

2 The Grape Varieties 19

How Grapes Grow 20

The Varieties 25

3 Winemaking and Flavor 63

Crushing, Soaking, and Pressing 65

Fermentation 71

Maturation 79

Blending 85

Filtering/Fining 88

The Final Product 88

4 The World's Major Wine Regions 97

Italy 98

France 106

Spain 116

United States 122

Argentina 132

Chile 136

Australia 139

New Zealand 142

Germany 144

Portugal 148

Other Wine- Producing Areas of Note 153

5 Planning Your Own Wine Tastings 157

Picking a Theme 158

Choosing the Wines 160

Setting Up the Tasting 162

Wine Glasses 167

Wine Storage 168

Food and Wine 172

Tastings Index 179

Index 180

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