Thinking About Wine - Hardcover

McCoy, Elin; Walker, John F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671663038 ISBN 13: 9780671663032

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1989

Essays discuss wine regions around the world, wine rankings, matching wines with foods, wine investing, and wine making trends

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From Publishers Weekly:

Oenophiles and mere jug-wine fanciers will flock to this collection of irreverent, intelligent and useful observations on buying, serving and savoring wines. From the first paragraph, one finds more than enough proof that this capable duo, wine columnists for House Beautiful and Food & Wine magazines, have indeed been thinking . McCoy and Walker put an end to such shibboleths as always serving red wines at room temperature, eschewing sweet wines, refusing to serve a "young" wine and allowing all reds time to "breathe" before serving. Without flinching, they even give their blessing to certain rose champagnes. Their commentary covers wines from the inexpensive to the priceless and antique, including American, French, German, Italian and Australian vintages. For the discriminating buyer, the authors name specific vineyards throughout, and categorize wines as superb, good and forgettable. Readers will learn about investing in wine (questionable), storing wines (cool and humid is best) and whether such strictures as white wine with fish and red with meat are carved in stone (no).
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

The authors, wine columnists for House Beautiful and Food & Wine magazines, have collected 58 of their essays in this volume. A wide range of topics is covered, though there is no attempt to be comprehensive. The well-written essays are valuable primarily for their fresh approach to time-worn truisms about wine. Some are of limited interest to the average wine drinker (such as a tasting review of the 1985 wines of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, which average over $100 a bottle). This book will be enjoyed by the wine enthusiast; the general reader seeking specific information on wine should be referred to a more basic work such as Serena Sutcliffe's Andre Simon's Wines of the World (McGraw, 1981. 2d ed.).
- Bruce Hulse, Vanguard Technologies Corp., Washington,
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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