1000 Best Wine Secrets | PDF | 402 pages | This book is designed to help you get morepleasure from every bottle. The first two sections reveal secrets, such as how to establish what a wine will taste like by a quick glance at the label; how to know if a wine is ready to drink or will improve with cellaring; and how to pair wine with food so the union is greater than the sum of its parts. You’ll learn when and why to decant or double decant and how to know if a wine is faulty—corked, past its best, or otherwise flawed. In short, sections one and two offer the means to magnifying your appreciation of wine. Part three reveals the flavors of the world. It looks to the warm and spicy Cabernet-Shiraz blends from Australia, the plumply fruited Beaujolais, the swollen cherry Merlots from Chile, the balmy breath of Grenache-based reds from Rioja, and the cool strokes of summer captured in Loire valley whites.These reliable and undemanding wines are proof that pleasure doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. Since we sometimes yearn for more, this section also reveals the more complex styles. Wines that take a little more effort. They may be more pricey and ask more of us in terms of understanding them and treating them well, but they usually repay us graciously, each sip coaxing more pleasure from the head and heart. Discover which celebrated plots of the Côte d’Or, Napa Valley, Bordeaux, Piedmont, and the Mosel Valley produce wines worth every penny and, if you’re feeling a little more adventurous, where to turn for the best bottles of the Central Otago, the Willamette Valley, Ribera del Duero, or the Okanagon Valley. These pages expose the better vineyards, growers, and winemakers from Italy to India, including the celebrated and shadowy heroes behind the bottles. The fourth part of this book is a collection of trade secrets. This is where I’ve taken pleasure in debunking myths, noting the industry’s most reliable sources of information, creating a lexicon of useful wine terms and jotted other useful bits and bobs for you to flip through with a glass of something delicious. In short, this book is a list of 1000 wine secrets offered to you in friendship. So sit back, pour yourself a glass of your favorite tipple, and let me share with you some of what I know about wine.

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