The Oxford Companion to Wine

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There has never been a book like The Oxford Companion to Wine. From the novice to the connoisseur, wine lovers will be enlightened, informed, and enchanted by this delightful one-volume guide to the world of wine. Beautifully designed and unrivaled in its scope, it is edited under the keen supervision of Jancis Robinson, heralded by The Wine Advocate as "perhaps the most gifted of all wine writers writing today," and one of the few journalists to pass the notoriously difficult Master of Wine exams. Going deeper than traditional buyer's guides and wine atlases, the Companion sought out contributions and advice from more than seventy authorities from around the world, including more than a dozen Masters of Wine. Its 3,000 alphabetically arranged entries rangé from brief identifications- What is a blanc de noirsl Where is Chateau Latour?-to fascinating longer essays on the intricacies of wine scoring, wine aging, and the nuances of judging a wine's color, aroma, and flavor. The... Tovább

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There has never been a book like The Oxford Companion to Wine. From the novice to the connoisseur, wine lovers will be enlightened, informed, and enchanted by this delightful one-volume guide to the world of wine. Beautifully designed and unrivaled in its scope, it is edited under the keen supervision of Jancis Robinson, heralded by The Wine Advocate as "perhaps the most gifted of all wine writers writing today," and one of the few journalists to pass the notoriously difficult Master of Wine exams. Going deeper than traditional buyer's guides and wine atlases, the Companion sought out contributions and advice from more than seventy authorities from around the world, including more than a dozen Masters of Wine. Its 3,000 alphabetically arranged entries rangé from brief identifications- What is a blanc de noirsl Where is Chateau Latour?-to fascinating longer essays on the intricacies of wine scoring, wine aging, and the nuances of judging a wine's color, aroma, and flavor. The sumptuous illustrations include thirty-two stunning full color plates and thirty-one maps of every major wine region. As readable as it is comprehensive, the Companion recognizes wine in all its many roles-as a commercial commodity, as a complex and subtle work of art, and, of course, as a source of great pleasure. Ranging from Abruzzi and armagnac to Zimbabwe and zinfandel, from Dionysian revels in ancient Greece to today's leading wine research centers, the entries explore all aspects of wine appreciation, the wine trade, and wine-making, including the very latest advances in viticulture and enology. All technical terms are fully explained, and the hundreds of useful drawings and photographs illustrate key processes. From the Napa Valley to Burgundy to China's Shandung peninsula, here are in-depth discussions of the climates, personalities, and grape varieties that have shaped the great wine regions of the world. Other single subject entries include the great winemakers, Vissza