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The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste

A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe

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 Winner of the prestigious André Simon Drink Book Award

The first definitive reference book to describe, region-by-region, how the great wines of Europe should taste. This will be the go-to guide for aspiring sommeliers, wine aficionados who want to improve their blind tasting skills, and amateur enthusiasts looking for a straightforward and visceral way to understand and describe wine.

In this seminal addition to the wine canon, noted experts Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay share everything they've learned in their decades of tasting wine. The result is the most in-depth study of the world's greatest wine regions ever published. There are books that describe the geography of wine regions. And there are books that describe the way basic wines and grapes should taste. But there are no books that describe the intricacies of the way wines from various subregions, soils, and appellations should taste. Now, for the first time ever, you can learn about the differences between wines from the 7 grand crus and 40 premier crus of Chablis, or the terroirs in Barolo, Champagne, and Bordeaux. Paying attention to styles, winemakers, soils, and the most cutting-edge of trends, this book explains how to understand the wines of the world not in the classical way, but in the modern way--appellation by appellation, soil by soil, technique by technique--making it an essential reference and instant classic. Food & Wine Gastronomy Wine & Beverages
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Ideal starting point to learn about European wine. Wines are described in detail, so it’s also useful for expanding one’s wine tasting vocabulary.

The perfect overview

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They couldn’t have picked a worse person to narrate. I was hoping for a nice calming stroll through European vineyards as I drift off to sleep, instead it’s someone out of an American TV commercial which, although is read well, doesn’t fit at all with the content of the book.

Definitely get the hard copy which contains maps and is laid out as the authors intended

Shouldn’t be an audiobook

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