Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine

2015·46.16 MB·English

by  Madeline Puckette

WINE FOLLY
Life is too short to drink bad wine.
–Anonymous

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Puckette, Madeline, author.
Wine folly : the essential guide to wine / Madeline
Puckette and Justin Hammack.
p. cm
ISBN 978-0-39957596-9
1. Wine and wine making. I. Hammack, Justin, author.
Book design by Madeline
Puckette

Contents
Epigraph ii
Introduction vi
Wine Regions
Fundamentals
Wine Regions of
Wine Basics 2
the World 176
Tasting Wine 12
Argentina 178
Handling Wine 22
Australia 180
Food and Wine
Austria 184
Pairing 30
Chile 186
Styles of WIne France 188
Germany 196
Styles of Wine 40 Italy 198
Sparkling Wine 44 New Zealand 202
Light-Bodied Portugal 204
White Wine 54 South Africa 206
Full-Bodied Spain 208
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