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Uncorked The Novice's Guide to Wine

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ISBN-10: 1596528141

ISBN-13: 9781596528147

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paul Kreider

List price: $16.95
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Cabernet, pinot noir, tannins, residual sugar. The language of wine is foreign to many of us, and wine itself is a topic that can also seem foreign-and snobbish. An unpretentious presentation of the essentials of wine, Uncorked is an easy way to gain straightforward information about a simple yet complex subject. This entertaining book, presented in an easy-to-understand format, will allow you to better:
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 2/21/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 202
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Paul Kreider, first made wine in 1974 and has made wine every harvest since. From his garage-based start-up business, Kreider established his own winery, the Ross Valley Winery, in 1987. It has remained a small, quality-conscious operation serving the community in San Anselmo in Marin County, California, twenty minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Introduction
Drinking and tasting
Don't trust your first sip
Why red is red and white isn't
Wines your (grand) parents drank
Wine labels
How can wine, a liquid, be dry?
The color is not just red and white
Why don't all cabernet sauvignons taste the same?
Oak in wines
Sediment
Sulfites: what's the big deal?
Cork conflict
Corked wine and TCA
ML (malolactic) fermentation
Sweet wines and the wine cycle
All about wine snobs
Smelling and tasting
Enjoying wine by using a thermometer
Getting the data to your receptors
Aging wine gracefully
Class on glass
Water into wine
Wine reviewers and point systems
How to act in a tasting room
Case for buying a case of wine
Leftover wine
Wine clubs: wine from the source
Wine is in the moment
Tasting blind
Spitting in public
Knowledge and creativity: building your database files
Murder by heat
Restaurant behaviors
Store your treasures, but use them
Wine word lookup and quiz