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A Beer Drinker's Guide to Knowing and Enjoying Fine Wine

A Beer Drinker's Guide to Knowing and Enjoying Fine Wine

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Paperback
9780985533618
Available
12/10/2012
Crosstown Publishing, LLC
REGIONS: United States
8.5 X 5.5 in
204 pg
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Description
A Kirkus 2013 Indie Book of the Year. Are you ready to learn more about wine and beer? About how to become a wine expert without really trying? Is it finally time to expand your horizons, learn what you need to know about wine, impress some clients, or introduce your better half to that new wine bar down the street? If so, here’s the ideal wine guide. A Beer Drinker's Guide to Knowing and Enjoying Fine Wine is a friendly, arm-around-the-shoulder wine primer that educates and enlightens from a beer drinker's point of view. You will find no geeky disquisition or convoluted wine writing here, just a relaxed, easy-going explanation of styles and varietals, wine tasting and scoring, major wine regions and inside tips for buying or selecting the perfect bottle. Infused with nuggets of beer lore, the keys to understanding "winespeak," and much more. Enjoy this light-hearted, yet surprisingly informative and educational look at the delicious world of fine wine.
Jim Laughren
Author Bio

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!