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BookmarkFrom “one of the wine world’s most popular voices” (USA Today), a newly updated edition of her by-now classic introduction to wine, GREAT WINE MADE SIMPLE : Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier, reflects up-to-the minute wine trends, including the burgeoning popularity of the Shiraz grape, new flavor maps, and much, much more.
First published in 2000, Great Wine Made Simple established Andrea Immer Robinson as America’s favorite wine writer. Avoiding the traditional and confusingly vague wine language of “bouquet” and “nose,” and instead discussing wine in commonsense terms, the book launched Andrea’s career as a wine authority without pretense.
Now, thoroughly revised, Great Wine Made Simple lives up to its title by making selecting and enjoying wine truly simple. With Andrea Immer Robinson as your guide, you will never again have to fear pricey bottles that don’t deliver, snobby wine waiters, foreign terminology, or encyclopedic restaurant wine lists. You’ll be able to buy or order wine with confidence--and get just the wine you want--by learning how the “Big Six” basic styles (which comprise 80 percent of today’s top selling wines) taste and how to read any wine label. Ten new flavor maps show what tastes you can expect from climates around the world.
Andrea Immer Robinson genuinely knows more about wine than most wine lovers could ever hope to learn. But she doesn’t believe that you have to join a stuffy, exclusive wine-tasting set, or study a lot, to become a savvy wine buyer. Unlike other wine guides, Great Wine Made Simple makes it easy to master the ins and outs of choosing a wine that you and your guests will love—on any budget.
In her down-to-earth style, Andrea guides you through follow-along-at-home wine tastings that are easy, fun, and affordable, and even suggests a milk tasting for understanding variations in wine-body style. Building on this foundation, she covers the rest of the wine landscape with her inimitable style, candor, and humor, from classic regions to new tastes, plus a bevy of practical issues like wine gear and proper storage. A refreshing blend of in-depth knowledge and accessibility, Great Wine Made Simple is a welcome resource for those who are intrigued by wine but don’t know where to start.
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As I am pretty much a beginner and learning about different wines, this book has been a very good book for me. I have purchased several others but get the same information, mostly over my head and not much help. This book pretty much fills my needs for a while. Worth the price.
This is the best introductory book for wine that I have seen for several reasons:
1. By the time you get through the first few chapters and do the exercises, you’ll know more useful things about wine than the vast majority of people.
2. What you’ll know, you will be able to remember. The lessons learned in the book are simple and the tastings make them tangible.
3. This book removes the pretention from wine and simplifies the subject dramatically without reducing meaning. It starts from common red and white grapes – then what some common attributes of wines produced from those grapes are (oaky, tannic, etc.) It proceeds with explaining how climate effects grapes, and proceeds into Old World/New World distinctions, aged wines, and unusual wines.
When first learning about wine, I started with the “Dummies” book but wasn’t pleased – I found it didn’t make any attempt to provide a framework for understanding. It started with “France”, and then proceeded to “Bordeaux” and “Burgundy”, pointing out every village and Xth Growth estate. And then went country by country, with bits of knowledge here and there. I finished the book feeling like I knew less than when I started. This book was much simpler but provided much greater knowledge.
For a while, anyway, you can keep costs under control following the tastings in this book. Still, figure that bottle cost will be upwards of $1000-1500 to get through all the tastings, if that’s your objective.
An excellent book, focused on helping people who are new or moderately comfortable in the wine-world understand wine. The book contains a series of recommended tastings, with multiple options spanning multiple price ranges, which ease you into discovering the different grapes and styles of wine. It is easy, low stress, and removes the pressure and uncertainty from learning to enjoy wine.
This was purchased as a gift as I’m not letting my own copy out of my sight. Guided wine tastings decode the gibberish on bottle labels and take the snobbery out of selecting great wines at many price points. Read this, watch “Sideways” and you’re good to take on the best tasting rooms!
READ FOUR TIMES COVER TO COVER. I SHOP FOR WINE WITH THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE AFTER READING THIS BOOK. THANKS, ANDREA!!