A Guide for Everyone
O.K., maybe it’s not for the millionaire Bordeaux collector or the snobby sommelier at the Ritz-Carlton, but it does give loads of ideas to beginner, intermediate and even advanced wine drinkers. I personally enjoyed the list titled “The Top 50 Wines You’re Not Drinking”, it reminded me to go out and pick up a bottle of “Stonestreet” and “Hill of Content”. Andrea Immer is the personable Master Sommelier who can dazzle us all with her grape know how, but writes like she is just another one of your drinking mates.
With all her credentials in place and about a billion hours of wine study (drinking) under her belt some might think that a Master Sommelier would be putting out a guide titled “My 50 favorite Burgundies you probably can’t afford or find”. Some wine experts would go that route. Andrea goes the other way, delivering something that we all can use when we need the low-down on some delicious wines that we can find and afford.
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