Wine experts Huon Hooke and Ralph Kyte-Powell taste thousands of wines every year. Here is their selection of the best wines from Australia and New Zealand. The wine guide asseses the quality and value of over 1000 new wines, each featuring tasting notes and brief notes on it's maker, current releases, best vintages and price. There is also expert advice on selecting wine, matching food and wine, decanting and cellaring.
There are so many wine varieties and makers on the market now it is harder than ever to know what to choose for every occasion or to add to your cellar. Wine experts and judges Ralph Kyte-Powell and Huon Hooke taste thousands of Australian wines every year and here are their best value and top-quality wine selections from the latest releases. This best-selling and award-winning Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide includes: the Penguin Wine Awards for 2007, more than 1000 reviews of new wines, the best-value wines under $15, the top-rated wines at a glance and an up-to-date winery directory. Whether you are an enthusiast, an occasional drinker or just looking for a bargain, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide will help you make the most of every trip to the bottle shop or cellar door.
If you read wine reviews, you're already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they're smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what's so colorfully described as a peacock's tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you're in for a treat, because these terms and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle, and utterly shock you . Welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wine speak: a world where words and wine intersect in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. The author, a lifelong lover of both wine and words, has compiled and organized this unique thesaurus of 36,975 wine tasting descriptors into 20 special collections extracted from 27 categories so you can locate exactly the right term or phrase to express yourself clearly or to understand others. May your path across the galaxy of wine be paved only with labels from the very best bottles on earth. Or, much more cautiously, with wines that could introduce you to angel pee, citronella, eastern European fruit soup, Godzilla, iodine, ladies' underwear, mustard gas, old running shoes, rawhide, hot tar roads, bubblegum, sweaty saddles, crushed ants, kitchen drains, or even turpentine.
Color photography and loads of practical information make the See It guides some of the most user-friendly illustrated guidebooks around. Each edition includes ratings for value, child appeal, historic interest, and cool shopping to help readers evaluate all key sights.
Latest edition of this annual guide. Over 1000 wines are rated for value and quality. Best wines are highlighted and the 1992 vintage discussed. Notes on each wine include quality and value ratings, grape, cellar life and price, as well as a short description. Includes a list of wineries, food/wine combinations and common names, as well as a glossary.
