Over 1,000 Australian and New Zealand wines are reviewed in this guide by two of Australia's most respected critics. In the most comprehensive and up- to-date guide available, all types of wines are rated for quality and value. In this edition, new symbols will be used to represent both organic and preservative-free wines available in Australia.
The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide is one of Australia's best-selling wine guides and is each year eagerly awaited, not only for the prestigious Penguin Wine Awards, but also for Huon and Ralph's entertaining and informative 'good oil' on Australian wines and winemakers.Last year saw the introduction of classifying wines by grape variety. This year, to make the Guide even more user-friendly, it features an extensive index that lists all wines reviewed by brand name.Huon and Ralph review over 750 top new Australian wines, providing the most comprehensive range of best quality and best value wines to choose from, plus loads of tips to help you make the most of buying, cellaring and drinking wine. Also included are the best wines for under $15, tips for the bargain hunter and the top BYO restaurants in Australia.The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide is the most up-to-date wine guide around - no one should buy wine without it.
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 is all a wine lover will ever need-a comprehensive list of ratings for more than 40,000 wines from all over the world, including information, prices and full tasting notes. The Wine Enthusiast Essential Buying Guide 2008 makes it easy to identify a wine for every taste, budget, meal, and geographic preference. Authored by a distinguished panel of Wine Enthusiast's in-house tasters, the Wine Enthusiast Essential Buying Guide 2008 offers authoritative buying advice on more than 40,000 wines. Grouped by region of origin and updated yearly, this book is a must-have for every wine lover.
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.
From the expert who promises to avoid winespeak comes an unfussy guide that focuses on American wines and on up-and-coming wineries from around the globe. For novices and afficionados alike, Anthony Dias Blue's Pocket Guide to Wine 2006 will lead you to the best choices -- and values -- without pretense or hyperbole. With a special eye for American wines and those that are unheralded yet not to be missed, Blue makes the process of choosing wine in a store or restaurant simple. He provides: Extensive listings of wineries on six continents, from Mexico to South Africa, from Long Island to Israel, and even from China to India Outstanding and cult wineries -- and wineries to watch Profiles of each region that focus on key characteristics and varieties Ratings, succinct descriptions, and opinions about each producer Updated vintage reports Advice about what to drink now
