Walking into any wine store or the wine section of the liquor store can be intimidating.
Row upon row of wine bottles sit on their lofty shelves seeming to dare you to pick them.
For too many people the choice simply becomes a matter of buying the same wine they've tried before.
You don't have to take a sommelier course to make good choices in your wine selection. Katherine Cole wants to help you be able to make confident decisions in your sampling.
In this book, she begins by introducing the most common 10 wine styles, which range from crisp, lean whites to fortified. Within those styles she offers names to look for, a selected bottle that best represents the style, food pairings, a top 10 list and more. This approach (instead of looking at geographical regions) makes for much easier descriptions and comparisons.
Other sections focus on buying wine, best practices for serving and drinking wine, how the different styles of wine are made and grape origins and varieties.
Cole presents all this information without lecturing and reassures the reader that these choices are not absolute. Her approach, with its focus on these 10 styles, allows for much easier understanding of the wines that will appeal to your own taste, making it much easier to start experimenting.
