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BookmarkWine enthusiasts and novices, raise your glasses! The #1 wine book has been extensively updated! If you’re a connoisseur, Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition will get you up to speed on what’s in and show you how to take your hobby to the next level. If you’re new to the world of wine, it will clue you in on what you’ve been missing and show you how to get started. It begins with the basic types of wine, how wines are made, and more. Then it gets down to specifics :
- How to handle snooty wine clerks, navigate restaurant wine lists, decipher cryptic wine labels, and dislodge stubborn corks
- How to sniff and taste wine
- How to store and pour wine and pair it with food
- Four white wine styles : fresh, unoaked; earthy; aromatic; rich, oaky
- Four red wine styles : soft, fruity, and relatively light-bodied; mild-mannered, medium-bodied; spicy; powerful, full-bodied, and tannic
- What’s happening in the “Old World” of wine, including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and Greece
- What’s how (and what’s not) in the New World of Wine, including Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa
- U.S. wines from California, Oregon, Washington, and New York
- Bubbling beauties and medieval sweets : champagne, sparkling wines, sherry, port, and other exotic dessert wines
Authors Ed McCarthy, CWE, who is a regular contributor to Wine Enthusiast and The Wine Journal and Mary Ewing-Mulligan, MW, who owns the International Wine Center in New York, have co-authored six wine books in the For Dummies series. In an easy-to-understand, unpretentious style that’s as refreshing as a glass of Chardonnay on a summer day, they provide practical information to help you enjoy wine, including :
- Real Deal symbols that alert you to good wines that are low in price compared to other wines of similar type, style, or quality
- A Vintage Wine Chart with specifics on numerous wines
- Info on ordering wine from out of state, collecting wine, and more
Wine For Dummies, Fourth Edition is not just a great resource and reference, it’s a good read. It’s full-bodied, yet light…rich, yet crisp…robust, yet refreshing….
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I was truly a dummy when it came to wine at the time I read this book. Unfortunately, Wine for Dummies was not very enlightening. Its problems:
- It meanders all over the place. Where to begin? The book makes no suggestions for where to start your education, instead just providing scads of information about all the possible varietals and regions you might be interested in.
- It makes very little attempt to simplify wine for the beginner. The problem I have with this is that wine is already needlessly complex and a “Dummies” book that doesn’t simplify it misses the point.
- It feels very pro-European and traditional when it comes to wine. The problem is that Europe is the most complicated wine area, with regions and subregions and crus and villages and wine grapes not named on the label, so it makes almost no sense as a framework with which to begin understanding wine (although there’s nothing wrong with European wines).
- It doesn’t adequately teach concepts like “dry”, “crisp”, “body”, “oaky”, etc.
- It doesn’t suggest potential tastings
Basically it’s just a big book full of wine knowledge.
A far, far better beginner’s book is “Great Wine Made Simple” by Andrea Robinson. “Great Wine Made Simple” is not only much more fun (it involves lots of tastings) but it teaches the concepts you need to know much better. Have a look.
Wine for dummies is a must! And shipping was super fast! Anything you need to know when starting out with wine, is right there in the book!
Good book for beginners in this project. Easy to read, easy instruction, clearly stated.
i am still waiting for the book and now i have tried to get my money back and i am still waiting for that. i ordered the book and after a month i lost hope. so now i am stuck waiting to receive a refund…..
This is a great book. A quick read. Not pretentious. Lots of real-world help. Skip parts that aren’t interesting to you. If you’re looking to get into wine as a hobby or gain some general knowledge of the subject, this is a great starting point.