An Illustrated Guide to Wine: A grand tour of the vineyards, from Bordeaux to the Barossa Valley, the best grape varieties and the practicalities of ... and drinking wine, with 450 photographs

A grand tour of the vineyards, from Bordeaux to the Barossa Valley, the best grape varieties and the practicalities of buying, keeping, serving and drinking wine, with 450 photographsA globetrotting tour of the world’s wine regions, from Champagne to Rioja, from the Lebanon to California, and from South Africa’s Cape to New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay. Focuses on the major grape varieties including Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Gewürtztraminer, Gamay and Pinot Noir, describing their aromas, flavours and characters. Explores the principles of tasting wine - identifying dryness, sweetness, acidity, tannin, oak and fruit - plus how to create your own collection in a cellar, a guide to corkscrews and glasses, how to let wine breathe, and which foods go best with which wines. Explains the conventions of bottle labelling, analysing features such as the name of the vineyard, the grape variety and style, alcohol content, vintage year and appellation contrôllée. Fully revised and updated edition of