Wine for dummies /
Ed McCarthy
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- New York : IDG Books Worldwide, 1998
- xxvi, 404 p.
- For dummies .
Getting stared with wine, 5. -- Wine 101, 7. -- These taste buds are for you, 19. -- Behind the scenes of winwmaking, 35. -- Pinot envy and other secrets about grape varieties, 41. -- It a grape? is it a place?, 59. -- Close encounters of the wine king, 69. -- Navigating a wine shop, 71. -- Navigating a restaurant wine list, 83. -- How to open a bottle - and what to do next, 99. -- Judging a wine by its label, 119. -- Around the world of wine, 131. -- Doing france, 133. -- Italy the heartland of vino, 169. -- Elsewhere in europe, 187. -- The brave new world of wine, 205. -- America, America, 221. -- Bubbling beauties, 255. -- Wine roads less traveled : Fortified and dessert wine, 275. -- When you're caught the bug, 295. -- Insider's guide to wine buying, 297. -- You never graduate from wine school, 307. -- Describing and rating wine, 325. -- Marrying wine and reating wine, 325. -- Marrying wine with food (and other entertaining issues), 333. -- To have and to hold or to sell, 341. -- The part of tens, 359. -- Answers to ten common questions about wine, 361. -- Ten wine myths demystifiend, 367