50 Ways to Love Wine More
50 Ways to Love Wine More
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Wine appreciation as it was meant to be. No textbook necessary, just open arms and a mind and palate ready to explore. 50 Ways to Love Wine More is about discovering wine on your terms, at your pace, with your friends and fellow wine lovers. Let your ideas and desires intersect with the wonder of wine to enhance and expand your wine knowledge and appreciation.
Author Jim Laughren, a certified wine educator--and certifiable oenophile--shares the insights and lessons learned from 20+ years as a wine importer, distributor, collector, consultant and confirmed aficionado. He reaffirms what is important about wine and our relationship to it. With this foundation to build on, the details, the history, the geography, the art, and the science of wine are easy to assemble and appreciate.
While 50 Ways to Love Wine More is brimming with facts and "vintellect" on a wide variety of wine-focused topics, what you'll learn most is how to let wine wrap you in its embrace, whisper its secrets in your ear, and welcome you to its confederacy of aficionados.
Back in the days of roommates and communal dinners, I'd put together a pot of spaghetti and red sauce (that and scrambled eggs being my entire culinary repertoire) and serve it to friends along with a jug of California's best. Though the jug wine was jug wine--the Hearty Burgundy most certainly contained not a drop of Pinot Noir, while the Chianti was likely a Sangiovese-less blend of Carignan and Zinfandel--it managed to sink its vinous hooks into my palate and its taste, tannins, and alcoholic buzz into memories of good times with good people.
And to this day, one of my great pleasures is sharing my passion for wine with new groups and generations of wine drinkers and explorers. I hope that 50 WAYS TO LOVE WINE MORE and A BEER DRINKER'S GUIDE TO KNOWING AND ENJOYING FINE WINE, along with the new 15 MINUTE WINE GUIDE series, will help instill in you a similar appreciation for this remarkable beverage. Stop by jimlaughren.com to signup for my newsletter and get a FREE wine aroma wheel. See you there!
