Finally! A practical, well-organized guide to wine!

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	• Great Wine Made Simple: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson Broadway, 2005 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The name says it all!

When I opened the cover of this book, I found it hard to close it! I must say that this book definitely put the fear of choosing wine to bed for me and motivated me to get to the liquor store and choose wines I had not yet ever tried -- with confidence!

This is one of the BEST books I have ever purchased!

Finally! A practical, well-organized guide to wine!

I absolutely loved this book! The author gives very *practical* advice on how to select and taste wine. I especially loved her well-laid out tasting exercises with very specific instructions. No pretention here - just great, clear, easy to understand, practical advice. This book would make a superb textbook for a winetasting class. A fun idea would be to invite some friends over to do the "lab exercises" with you.

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Controlling information overload

While I love this book, I would recommend developing a strategy for using it. There are numerous wine tasting "lessons" that result in a lot of wine being purchased and consumed; it would be easy to get lost in all the new information. Using this strategy is time consuming (a single lesson every other week or so), but I feel I've learned and retained so much that it's well worth it. First, I do a single tasting lesson (comparing 2-3 bottles) on a Friday night, eating the same food and using the same type glasses for every lesson. This allows me to learn about the lesson being taught, not necessarily the wines themselves. Then, using the book "Pairing Wine with Food" (available at Amazon), I finish each bottle on following nights, preparing a meal selected specifically for that wine. (I also break out the Riedel glasses designed for that particular wine, but that's just for fun.) The subsequent nights help me to learn more about the nuances of the individual wine because I can concentrate on it alone. In the process, I've discovered that there are no wine types I dislike, just individual wines from specific vineyards that don't thrill me. I use a PDA program to help me keep track of what to buy and what to avoid. Doing it this way makes me feel like I'm taking a college class with homework I love and without paying tuition or taking tests!

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A simple way to learn about wines

As the title indicates, Andrea Immer makes wine very simple to understand. Instead of being an encylocpedic reference manual on wine producing regions & other esoterica, she breaks down winetasting into the following simple components and describes them: full body vs. light body, dry vs. sweet, crisp vs. low-acid, oaky vs. no oak, high tannin, vs. low tannin. To help the reader better understand them, she employs the techinique she uses to train the waiters at the restaurants she's worked at - she has them taste. Therefore, you are going to be buying and tasting multiple flights of wines. This may be a plus or minus depending on your point of view.

While the tasting flights are the most useful, she does also provide simple short-cuts to help you determine the character of wine based on characteristics like color and alcohol content and includes a primer on cracking the "code words" that appear on wine labels.

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Simple and fun

Andrea Immer does a fantastic job of teaching the reader about wine in simple terms without snobbery and confusion.

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