The idea behind this book is to involve the same wine at any meal, including dessert. It’s a good idea since this formula is perfectly adapted for eating small committee and because it frees itself and potential gaps in the sequence of different wines.
70 types of wines are reviewed with, on the first page, an overview of the wine (because of name, service boards, tasting notes, agreements with the food and wine ideas peers) and on the page facing it, a detailed menu complete with a recipe (usually the main course) and a second proposal for a menu in a different style. Comments on wine tasting each dish come to form a truly remarkable addition to this set. These comments are highly instructive and makes the book quite unique.
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Celebrated British wine journalist Oz Clarke, famed for his complicated wine descriptions, has turned over a new leaf, in fact 416 of them, in his helpful and straightforward new hardback OZ CLARKE’S NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WINE, published by Harcourt Brace at $40 ($60 Canada).
In the first 29 pages common-sense advice is offered on topics from winemaking to keeping and serving wine, as well as tasting. This is followed by basic facts about the main wine growing countries of the world before, at page 56, the bulk of the book becomes an A-Z of Wines, Wine Regions, Producers and Grape Varieties.
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Revised. This is a Portuguese wine book by Richard Mayson. It is available from Hi Marketing, 33 Carver Road, London, United Kingdom, SE24 9LT.
Richard Mayson is clear-headed ….he gives a fair, up-to-date and highly readable survey of one of wine’s most exciting frontiers – Hugh Johnson wrote in the foreword for the revised edition.
Guido Van Imschoot is president of Professional Sommeliers Flemish. His intent with this book is to make us share his passion for wine and gastronomy. Taking advantage of its extensive experience in the field of wine and agreements, we will better understand how to approach wine and thus better appreciate them.
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A particular approach to tasting
Author Francis Martin
Publication Date 2010
Presentation 10 x 18 cm, 80 pages
ISBN 978-2-35156-053-2
This book, devoted to champagne, will allow the amateur, as the pure neophyte to wear a watchful eye on this mythical wine, secret, and often complex. For Champagne, by its nature, demands a special wine tasting.
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Published on April 5th, 2010 in
Wine Art
The book and the script
Well – Peter really light up this idea. He sat down in 2003 for his laptop – and for the nine months wrote what was required – a new book “A Good Year” . Not in semi-documentary style-wonderful story, as all his previous books, notes about his own life – and this artwork with a fictional heroes – garage winemakers.
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Introducing wine
The fact that the cover is a ghastly shade of green should not deter you from buying this admirable beginners’ guide. As with all Oz Clarke’s books the reader is treated to the most helpful content, and the majority of it is easy to follow. The only question I would raise concerns its $20 price, which seems a little high for the size and presentation.
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