Mastering Wine: A Learner's Manual - Softcover

Maresca, Tom

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9780802132987: Mastering Wine: A Learner's Manual

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802132987 ISBN 13: 9780802132987

Publisher: Grove Press, 1994

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This completely new and updated edition of the 1985 classic "Mastering Wine," winner of the Cliquot Prize for best wine book of the year, provides a complete course in tasting and understanding the virtues and flaws of wine of all kinds -- in your home and without bankrupting you. Tom Maresca's ingenious do-it-yourself guide to mastering wine is based on comparing two wines at a time; his one unyielding rule is that there is no wrong answer to the question 'Which wine did you like better?' Each pair leads you to the next, and your own taste charts the course. You may proceed through the carefully planned sequence of over 40 different pairs of reds, whites, roses, and sparkling wines, or follow the directions to the wines of a particular region or a particular class, such as Cabernets.

Whichever route you opt for, "Mastering Wine" can provide you with an acquaintance with the major kinds and classes of dry dinner wines, a painless introduction to wine terms, and practice in the art of tasting and analyzing wine -- of any kind. Anyone who would like an introduction to wine or a wider appreciation of the infinite variety of wines will find "Mastering Wine" the only practical, enjoyable, and affordable choice.

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About the Author:

Tom Maresca is a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

From Publishers Weekly:

The fine points of wine tasting remain a mystery to the majority of Americans. Here, the author's goal is to enhance enjoyment of wine drinking, and the method he advocates is comparison tasting. Maresca opens with an overview of tasting techniques and wine jargon, and reviews the various taste sensations and flavors on which readers should focus to develop their palates. One must be motivated to progress through the tastings described39 comparisons are set forth, covering 78 wines. Yet readers' work will be rewarded with a good working knowledge of the wines of the world as a basis for further reading and tasting. The author's style is pleasing, but he sometimes overplays his empathy with the neophyte. The wines reviewed are generally available across the country. November
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