The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Wine: Tasting Tips to Help You Swirl and Sniff Like an Expert

by Tara Q. Thomas

Overview

Everything you need to know about wine—to go.

With separate chapters for the best whites and reds and special advice on bubbly wines, dessert wines, and more, Tara Q. Thomas provides a perfect quick reference book for pocket or purse. Most importantly, Thomas brings her fresh, approachable tone to this book, making beginners feel welcome with straight, unsnobbish talk about wine—including the basics of labels, how to taste, recommended wines, bargains, price ranges, and more for chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, Riesling, pinot grigio, cabernet sauvignon, merlot, pinot noir, and Syrah.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440696589
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	09/06/2005
Series:	POCKET IDIOT'S GUIDE Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	415 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tara Q. Thomas is the editor-in-chief for Wine & Spirits magazine. She also serves as the wine editor for Denver Post, where she writes a bi-weekly column for the nation’s fifth largest Sunday newspaper. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wine Basics.