Expanded edition · 51 PAGES
Taste with Confidence
A practical handbook for tasting, buying, and serving wine
Understand sweetness, acidity, texture, body, winemaking, and regional styles. Practice reading labels, choosing wine for meals, serving it well, and recognizing potential faults, with worked comparisons and a printable buying worksheet.
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WHAT YOU WILL FIND
A thoughtful
companion.
51 pages including the cover, contents, and references. Worksheet pages, where included, are designed to print at actual size.
- A useful glass, a useful question
- Make the comparison fair
- Aroma is a comparison, not an ingredient list
- Sweetness: separate three different questions
- Acidity: describe the sensation before the story
- Texture: what “dry” might mean
- Body: describe weight without grading quality
- Two fermentations, different jobs
- Oak: ask what the word is doing
- Chardonnay: follow the grape across two places
- Red-wine routes: Pinot Noir and Bordeaux blends
- Rosé: look beyond the shade
- Sparkling wine: decode the sweetness words
- Read the label in layers
- Write a note that changes your next choice
- Give the shop a brief it can answer
- Order from a restaurant list
- Serve the wine you bought, not the room
- Pair the finished dish
- When a bottle seems wrong
- Explore without buying a random case
- A completed buying record
- Buying worksheet: from brief to next bottle
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