A wine authority surveys wine professionals and consumers, and grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels.
A wine authority surveys wine professionals and consumers, and grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels.
This book takes you on a very different journey to wine country, inviting you to enjoy the remarkable stories of twenty dynamic women in the world of wine. These women share their lives, wine tips, pairings, and most important, enthusiasm for wine while imparting their rich life lessons and wine expertise—a wonderful way to share your love for wine with the enterprising women who help bring it to your table.
Completely updated with information on more than 800 of the country's top-selling wines (100 more than were included in the 2006 edition), Andrea Robinson's buying guide is dedicated to the best-quality, most popular, and most readily available wines found in stores and restaurants. In addition to giving the lowdown on taste and value, this compact resource is packed with unique features such as: · Candid "from the trenches" comments from consumers and wine pros alike · Results of "kitchen survivor test," revealing how each wine fares as a leftover · Robinson's Best Bets or solving every buying dilemma, from hip wines to impress a date to blue-chip choices for a client · Listing of the years' top-performing wines at every price level, from steal to splurge
The Ultimate Buying Guide to America’s Most Popular and Accessible Wines The first guide to buying wine that grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels. Andrea Immer, one of America’s foremost wine authorities, surveyed thousands of wine professionals and ordinary consumers, who assess what really matters most–taste and value for the money. She also provides: • Best-of lists: The top performing wines • Immer Best Bets: Andrea Immer’s top picks for every major buying dilemma, from inexpensive crowd pleasers to blue-chip choices for business entertaining • “The Top Fifty Wines You’re Not Drinking”: These wines are less well known, but offer good availability and great value • Immersion Course: Quick and easy label-reading lessons to give you instant buying expertise • Kitchen Countertop (and Fridge) Survivor™ grades: How long will the wine keep after it’s opened? Now you’ll know the wines’ “freshness window” after opening.
Each edition of this unique series marries a collection of previously published essays with detailed practical information, creating a colorful and deeply absorbing pastiche of opinions and advice. Each book is a valuable resource -- a compass of sorts -- pointing vacationers, business travelers, and readers in many directions. Going abroad with a Collected Traveler edition is like being accompanied by a group of savvy and observant friends who are intimately familiar with your destination. This edition on Paris features: Distinguished writers, such as Mavis Gallant, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Herbert Gold, Olivier Bernier, Richard Reeves, Patricia Wells, Catharine Reynolds, and Gerald Asher, who share seductive pieces about Parisian neighborhoods, personalities, the Luxembourg Gardens, Père-Lachaise and other monuments, restaurants and wine bars, le Plan de Paris, and le Beaujolais Nouveau. Annotated bibliographies for each section with recommendations for related readings. An A-Z "renseignements pratiques" (practical information) section covering everything from accommodations, marches aux puces (flea markets), and money to telephones, tipping, and the VAT. Whether it's your first trip or your tenth, the Collected Traveler books are indispensable, and meant to be the first volumes you turn to when planning your journeys.
Dispensing with the obscure and hard-to-find wines covered by so many critics and wine guides, Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson showcases the most popular and available wines in stores and restaurants. Her tasting notes and reviews include popular ratings from consumers and experts who contribute reviews on her website, www.andreawine.com. In addition to ratings of more than 800 wines, the book is packed with quick-reference tools including Best-Of lists of the top-scoring wines in each grape and style, Cuisine Complements wine and food pairing suggestions, an invaluable restaurant wine list decoder, and a mini-course to get readers quickly up to speed on wine basics. It’s all in a fun-to-read, handy pocket-purse-glovebox-sized format.