How to Fake Your Way through a Wine List: Tips and Tricks to Sound Like an Expert

Cole, Katherine

ISBN 10: 1454916036 / ISBN 13: 9781454916031

Published by Union Square & Co., 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Fake Your Way through a Wine List: Tips and Tricks to Sound Like an Expert
• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1454916036
• ISBN 13: 9781454916031
• Binding: flexibound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Whether you’re in a restaurant or a store, deciding on a bottle of wine doesn’t have to feel intimidating. Don’t worry about appellations, chateaux, vintages, and other complicated vocab. Wine expert Katherine Cole has developed simple strategies for navigating the wine world. Her fun, friendly guide offers a Choose Your Own Wine tool that enables you to find the perfect bottle, mnemonic devices to help you remember details about growing regions, a series of empowering role-playing vignettes, insider tips on up-and-coming hot spots, and a translation chapter that breaks down the wall between cork dork and beginning enthusiast. With Cole’s expert tips, choosing wines can be easy!
 

About the Author

Katherine Cole is the author of Complete Wine Selector (Firefly), and her first book, Voodoo Vintners: Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winemakers (University of Chicago Press), was a Louis Roederer Award finalist. The longtime wine columnist at the Oregonian, she has written for Wine Spectator, the World of Fine Wine, and other publications and created Oregon Wine, the app. She lives in Portland, OR.