Features 300 essential words and phrases with brief explanations and translations, lesson dialogs, short quizzes, and a pronunciation guide.

Product Description: In this handy notebook, Kevin Zraly, bestselling author of the acclaimed Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, gives you the ideal place to write down all your wine tasting notes. An introduction covers wine basics, including: the top six grapes, how to read a wine label, the best 200 wines under $30, a tasting guide, and more...read more

Product Description: Kevin Zraly, author of one of the bestselling wine books of all time, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course, has assembled the finest writers of the last 50 years to explain everything you need to know about wine. Each one addresses the subject he or she is most famous for, including decanting, tasting, grapes, matching food and wine, winemaking, sustainable vineyards, the various wine regions, and terroir...read more

Product Description: Let’s pop a cork and drink a toast to America’s very best, most popular wine course! Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is celebrating its silver anniversary, and this classic volume now has new, updated material that wine lovers will savor...read more

Looks at how and where wine is made and how this affects its quality and pricing, including information on how the professionals taste and rate wine, a country-by-country tour of the latest vintages, profiles of different types of wine, the fine art of tasting a wine, and more.

Looks at how and where wine is made and how this affects its quality and pricing, including information on how the professionals taste and rate wine and a country-by-country tour of the latest vintages.

Product Description: "One of the best start-from-scratch wine books ever written."--Frank Prial, The New York Times. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! Celebrating 20 years of wine mastery...The world's finest wine book gets a complete redesign for its 20th birthday...read more

An updated introduction to wine provides a close-up look at American wines and their history, discussing varieties from all fifty states and providing helpful guidelines and tips on purchasing the right wine for the right occasion; offers a country-by-country ratings tour of the latest vintages; and furnishes helpful answers to questions about wine.

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Describes the leading wine-making regions, explains how to create a restaurant's wine list, and offers advice on wine tasting and selection. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The best beginner's book on wines...just keeps on getting better all the time! "One of the best start-from-scratch wine books ever written," wrote Frank Prial in The New York Times, praising this unique and unequalled guide that does far more than just tell you which red to drink with meat and which white with fish...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

All in color! The best beginner's book on wines...in an all-new Millennium edition! America's best-selling book on wine is completely rewritten. Now filled with full-color labels and maps, it is packed with updated recommendations, new sections, sidebars, and Kevin Zraly's inimitable, irreverent approach. Universally praised by wine experts and novices alike, this unbeatable "course" answers all your questions and starts you on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur. Go through the tasting process, from swirling the glass to sniffing to sipping; know when a wine is at its peak for drinking, and what to look for on a label. Take a country-by-country, region-by-region "best-buy" ratings tour of the latest vintages--whites, reds, and blended wines (champagne, sherry, and port) from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, California, the Pacific Northwest, New York, Australia, and two of the newest, hottest countries, Chile and Argentina. You'll love Zraly's lighthearted style, his glossary of wine terms, his award-winning restaurant wine lists, his advice on matching wine with food, and his tips on stocking and serving wine at home, ordering it in restaurants, and more. A uniquely intoxicating trek through the world of wine. Trim size: 8 x 10.