Wine Talk Chronicles: A Collection of the Authors Newspaper Columns Covering the Great Wine Regions of the World and Their...
- ISBN-10
- 1548090387
- ISBN-13
- 9781548090388
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-17
- Author
- Bob Bryden
Description
The author, a Certified Sommelier by the Court of Master Sommeliers has assembled a collection of 106 of his weekly newspaper columns written between May 2015 and August 2017, that concisely cover the major wine regions in the most important fourteen wine producing countries of the world. Because newspaper columns must be concise while still offering a full explanation of the subject, each column provides a good overview of the topic in around 1,000 words. The important country of France for instance, is covered in fifteen articles that individually cover the regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Northern Rh�ne Valley, southern Rh�ne Valley, the Loire Valley, Alsace, Beaujolais, Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon, C�te Chalonnaise, Cognac, and M�connais. Three additional articles cover French wine laws, the 1855 Classification of Bordeaux wines, and the 1976 Paris tasting between French and California wines that rocked the wine world when two California wines took first place in both the red and white wine categories. In addition to the fourteen most important wine countries, there are columns on various topics such as blind tasting, wine pairing, Eau-de-Vie, Fortified wines, rating wine, dessert wines, and stocking your wine cellar, as well as articles describing 22 of the most common grape varieties.Part of the beauty of reading about something in 1,000 word blocks is that you can complete that topic before you put the book down. You can set your own pace and read about one region, one grape, or one philosophical discussion about a wine topic of your choice. You don't have to remember where you left off when you pick up the book the next time because you finished that topic. If you want to learn about wine but don't want to spend a lot of money buy books, and a lot of your time reading them, this book is your shortcut to a better understanding of wine. Obviously, everything about a big wine region can't be included in 1,000 words----but depending on your goal, it might be just enough.
