A Traveller's Wine Guide to Germany (Interlink Traveller's Wine Guides) - Softcover

Price, Freddy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566568935 ISBN 13: 9781566568937

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2013

Synopsis

Anyone looking for delicious food and wine, stunning landscapes and a warm welcome will find Germany wine country truly delightful. The tremendous diversity of its wines is a revelation to many visitors to Germany. This book offers many tips on where to enjoy the local cuisine with these delightful wines as well as meeting the winemakers, as it guides visitors on a journey through Germany's thirteen wine regions.

Germany's different regions have the largest hectarage of vines of any country in Europe. A Traveller's Wine Guide to Germany provides a basic introduction to German wine, from the vineyards to the cellars, with guidelines on what to expect when sampling it. It also take the wine tourist on a journey through remote areas that are infrequently visited in order to taste the best of German wines.

* Itineraries and maps
* Local gastronomic specialties
* Hundreds of visitor-friendly wineries
* Descriptions of local and regional wines
* Museums and sightseeing points
* Lists of wine festivals and exhibitions
* Restaurants, hotels and wine stores
* Reference section, websites and glossary

About this title

About the Author

Freddy and Janet Price's book Riesling Renaissance won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for "The Best Book on Wine, Europe." Freddy joined the wine trade in 1953 and married Janet in 1957. He became involved in most aspects of wine: buying, selling, marketing, lecturing, judging on tasting panels, writing about wines and leading tours around wine regions. In 1988 he set up an agency representing seven major estates in different regions of Germany. He also began to write regular articles for Decanter Magazine. Meanwhile, Janet had travelled solo to most of the wine-growing regions of the world, taking photographs to illustrate numerous wine books (including the Traveller's Wine Guides) and magazines. Research for their book Riesling Renaissance (Mitchell Beazley, 2004) took them around all the relevant regions of Germany and Austria, Alsace, USA, Canada, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Freddy was also awarded Herkunft Deutschland from the President of the VDP (association of top German wine estates) for his writing on German wines.

Review

"No one can lead us through the Riesling vineyard with a surer touch, with more assurance or more involvement than Freddy Price..." --Hugh Johnson

"Offers invaluable information...clear, colorful maps, driving times from major cities, descriptions of the regions and their wines, short and lengthy itineraries and times and places for local wine festivals." --Frank Prial, Wine Talk, The New York Times

"A boon to travellers and wine lovers alike... an astonishing amount of practical advice, historical and architectural information, and an easy-to-read breakdown of every wine area in their chosen countries... These books are sure to inspire holiday makers to set off in new directions." --Decanter Magazine

Traveller s Wine Guide to Germany, by Freddy Price, photography by Janet Price, the latest in the Traveller s Wine Guide series, would be a very good traveling companion to any or all of Germany s 13 wine regions.
Although the publisher has issued a previous edition of this title (text by Kerry Brady), this is now rewritten by Freddy Price, and contains new maps and photographs. Price clearly knows and can communicate what he s about.
The attractively and durably produced book nicely addresses all wine tourists need to know to get the most out of their efforts and time. Although it cannot be expected to cover the infinite details of individual wines, vintages, or for the most part, producers, it does pay off informatively and usefully about the history and setting and major sites and players in each region, how to get around to see and taste, where you might sleep and eat, and the important background perspective. --New England Wine Gazette Spring 2013

"A boon to travellers and wine lovers alike... an astonishing amount of practical advice, historical and architectural information, and an easy-to-read breakdown of every wine area in their chosen countries... These books are sure to inspire holiday makers to set off in new directions." --Decanter Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1566568935
• ISBN 13: 9781566568937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Illustrator: Price Janet