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.
