The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, third edition

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About The Concise Guide To Wine And Blind Tasting, Third

Product Description This book is for all those seeking to acquire a deep and systematic appreciation and understanding of wine, whether for exams, work, or pleasure. It outlines a simple yet robust framework for analyzing wine as objectively as possible, and provides all the background knowledge that you need to interpret your findings, covering everything from grape varieties and vineyard management to winemaking techniques and the world's most important wine styles. It seeks throughout to examine in what ways a particular 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 amateur and competitive blind tasters, students on higher-level wine courses, sommeliers, and anyone else who buys, sells, or recommends wine.  "A rigorous, highly focused, well-honed bootcamp manual (Bible might be a better word) for the likes of WSET diploma students, MW students, Master Sommelier students, and anyone else who thinks that blind tasting competitions are a riot." Tamlyn Currin for JancisRobinson.com   Review A comprehensive education in wine. -The Times Literary Supplement Splendid, concise, up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate. -Clive Coates MW, Author of The Wines of Burgundy  Delightful yet sophisticated. -Konstantinos Lazarakis MW, Author of The Wines of Greece  Trustworthy and valuable. -Richard Hemming MW for JancisRobinson.com Anyone on a wine course should consider this essential reading. -Thomas Parker MW About the Author Dr Neel Burton is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and wine-lover who lives and teaches in Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of Green-Templeton College in the University of Oxford, and the recipient of the Society of Authors' Richard Asher Prize, the British Medical Association's Young Authors' Award, the Medical Journalists' Association Open Book Award, and a Best in the World Gourmand Award. His work has featured in the likes of Aeon, the Spectator, and the Times, and been translated into several languages.