The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting - James Flewellen

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Titel:

The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

Auteur:

James Flewellen

ISBN:

9780992912703

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This book is for all those seeking to acquire a deep and systematic understanding and appreciation of wine, whether for exams, work, or pleasure. It outlines a simple and yet robust framework for analysing wine as objectively as possible, and provides all the background knowledge that you need to interpret and evaluate your findings?covering everything from grape varieties and vineyard management to winemaking techniques and the world's most important wine styles. Neel Burton and James Flewellen aim to provide you with a strong foundation in wine, which you can then build upon with your own, unique tasting experiences. From the back cover: This clear and concise primer provides detailed coverage of all the major wine styles and regions, together with notes on the history of wine, viticulture, winemaking, and blind tasting. It seeks throughout to examine in what ways a given wine is unique and different from other, similar wines. For example, why and in what ways is Pauillac, in Bordeaux, different from Pomerol, also in Bordeaux? Why and in what ways is Mosel Riesling different from Riesling from the Rheingau, or the Nahe, or Alsace, Austria, or Australia? This book is dedicated to all wine lovers, and should prove particularly useful to competitive blind tasters, higher level and diploma students, winemakers, wine traders, and sommeliers. Reviews: Mssrs. Burton and Flewellen have produced just the book that anyone needs ... This is a splendid, concise, up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate guide ? Warmly recommended! ?Clive Coates MW, Author of The Wines of Burgundy Anyone, whether eager volunteer or unsuspecting victim, who has experienced the mental and sensory rigours of blind tasting will welcome this helping hand with open arms. A great confidence booster for anyone looking to make sense of the increasingly convoluted world wine map. ?Gabriel Savage, Managing Editor, The Drinks Business Finding good generalizations about the specific taste and structure of wines?as far as that is possible?is surprisingly hard, and the ones in this book are invaluable. Of course, each taster eventually develops their own sense of how to identify and recognize the many and varied aspects of wine, but a resource like this is worth knowing about as a reference point for wine students at all stages ? the book is a trustworthy and valuable resource to have, and would doubtless become well thumbed by any serious wine devotee. ?Richard Hemming on JancisRobinson.com The book is unique in the way it sets out to examine what makes similar wines different. Why is a Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire so different from one from New Zealand or Chile? It explains what to look for by reference to soil and climate for example. I reckon if you study this section in detail, memorize it and then put what you have learned into practice over and over again, you will quickly develop the ability to assess and evaluate wines objectively ? I wish this book had been available when I was studying for my WSET Diploma. ?Colin Smith, IWC and IWSC judge