Approaching wine from the reader's point of view, Joanna Simon breaks down the barriers and lays bare all the components that make up the taste of wine. As well as giving a fresh perspective on tasting, serving, storing and matching wine with food, Discovering Wine explores the fundamental ingredients - showing clearly what the grapes contribute to the wine and how the winemakers use them to their advantage.
Open the pages of this guide and you uncork the exciting world of wine. Award-winning wine writer Joanna Simon steers the reader through a tantalizing range of styles, grape varieties and wine-producing regions and offers refreshingly down-to-earth advice on how to buy, taste, serve and store wine for maximum enjoyment.
Open the pages of this inspiring guide and uncork the exciting world of wine. Award-winning wine writer Simon steers the reader through a tantalizing range of styles, grape varieties, and wine-producing regions and offers down-to-earth advice on how to buy, taste, serve, and store wine for maximum enjoyment. Illustrations
Twenty-four of the world's top writers on wine have joined forces to create a unique and beautiful guide to fine wine. It portrays the world of wine through a series of profiles of great wine estates and the people who run them.