Wine for Dummies 4th Edition, Ed McCarthy
Wine for Dummies 4th Edition, Ed McCarthy
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Wine for Dummies 4th Edition

Author: Ed McCarthy, Mary Mulligan

Narrator: Brett Barry

Abridged: 3 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/23/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking


Synopsis

This down-to-earth guide cuts through wine snobbery and tells you what's in, what's out, and what's new in wine. This update of the bestselling For Dummies® classic covers everything from established and emerging wine regions to pairing wine with food to collecting wine. Here's to fun, relaxed wine exploration and enjoyment!Discover how to: Understand grape varieties and wine styles Decipher wine lists and wine labels Select, store, open, pour, and enjoy wine


Reviews

Goodreads review by Penelope on January 27, 2018

A good comprehensive guide, liked the humor, and the narrator was easy to listen to. Learned that there actually is a reason to sniff, swirl, and let wines breathe. If not for this guide, I would've dumped out a whole bottle Precipice Pinot Noir after the first sip. It tasted so much better after an......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on February 05, 2015

Overall this is a good book, worthy of a four star review. The reason for my two star review is because of Chapter 7, Confronting a Restaurant Wine List. This is the one chapter that obviously is written by people who don't have experience in the area they are talking about and didn't bother to cons......more

Goodreads review by Wanny on April 29, 2018

Esto de disfruta el vino es todo un arte. Ame este libo que me lleno de cultura sin esperarlo y que me enseña el arte que viven los enologoz en su ardua labor, el vino no tiene truco, ni reglas, solo tenemos que aprender a disfrutar el vino en cada momento.......more

Goodreads review by Eli - on January 31, 2023

Very informative, even if you already know stuff about wine.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 22, 2013

Wine for Dummies is a great book for both the experienced and novice wine drinker. The Introduction goes through how the book is organized and which parts of the book should be read, depending on what the reader is interested in. Pretty much every aspect of wine is covered -grape varieties, how wine......more