Choose Your Wine In 7 Seconds: Instantly Understand Any Wine with Confidence

by Stéphane Rosa, Jess Grinneiser (Illustrator)

Overview

For anyone who feels intimidated in a wine shop-vast selection, mystifying variety, attitudinal staff-this guide simplifies choosing wine in an easy-to-use system of pictograms With this innovative book, browsing and buying wine is transformed into a fun, positive experience, empowering anyone to understand at a glance which bottle is the right choice taking into account budget, occasion, and personal taste. Featuring an infographic, user-friendly, intuitive approach that minimizes impressionistic, flowery descriptions by using poctograms to navigate wine selection, this new method of buying wine is full of information and encouragement-a smart "life hack" zeroing in on 300 of the world's most widely available bottles. Each profile also points the reader to several similar wines that increases the number of wines covered to almost 1,500 varieties. This is an indispensable guide for wine lovers everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789341273
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	09/20/2022
Pages:	228
Sales rank:	511,740
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.37(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Stéphane Rosa is the director of the annual Hachette Guide to Wines (Guide Hachette des Vins), which has been considered to be France's most authoritative guide to wine for over 30 years and is commonly referred to as the bible of the French wine industry.

Jess Grinneiser is a designer and illustrator based in Paris. He specializes in both publications and web design.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Making wine easy 6

Another book about wine? 8

How to use this book 9

Where to buy your wine 10

Bottles and their contents 14

Reading the label 16

Wine prices 20

Tasting wine 24

Wine the easy way: ten categories 28

Aging wine 31

Serving wine 32

Food and wine: Pairings and mismatches 35

Finding the wine that suits you 39

Red Wines: Light and Fruity 42

Red Wines: Fleshy and Fruity 49

Red Wines: Powerful and Balanced 81

Red Wines: Ripe and Spicy 111

Red Wines: Sweet 129

Rosé Wines 135

White Wines: Crisp and Fruity 141

White Wines: Full and Round 167

White Wines: Sweet 189

Sparkling Wines 199

Appendices 209

Pictograms: key 210

Index of appellations in this book 212

Index of wine aromas 220