for a very interesting first readthrough, and an ideal one to keep and use as a reference book when needed especially when it has such a beautiful front cover.
Jancis is a wine goddess, and you can't go wrong if you pick up any of her books or watch her videos about wine.
She's funny, accessible, and informative, and you'll take plenty away from any encounter,
This is a good starter book if you know very little about wine, but if you're already on your way to oenophilia, move right into her excellent and much more robust Oxford Companion to Wine, so you have a rich resource to dip into when you need it.
As a note, I would recommend the physical version over Kindle, so you can more easily use it as a reference tool.
Hour Wine Expert was a great read! Small in size and easy to understand, I found the information to be fantastic, Would make a great gift to anyone who enjoys wine or wants to get to know it better,
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A handy reference guide to some of the key concepts for wine appreciation, I could no means memorise it all to become an expert inhours, but will surely consult it again and again over the years when tasting wines.
It's delightfully brief, written in a tothepoint and friendly style, not overly pretentious, A downside for me as an Australian is that it doesn't have a huge amount of content on the kinds of wine that are most common here I'm looking forward to Grace De Morgan's 'Everything Happens for a Riesling' for that reason.
Неплохо, но МАЛОВАТО, хотя, может, жанр не предполагает.
Узнала, что Chateau и Domaine это по сути одно и то же, только первое винодельческое хозяйство в Бордо, а второе в Бургундии и Domaine обычно меньше по площади, а также что вместо калифорнийского каберне совиньона интереснее и дешевле пить австралийский. Еще есть хороший словарь дегустационных терминов и прекрасный жаргон по теме вроде plonk. Really great introduction to the world of wines, comprehensive, nononsense, and totally antisnobbery, A good little introduction to wine, but Im still no expert, I read this, as well as Aldo Sohms Wine Simple, They have some similarities and some differences, and both provide a good foundation and food drink for thought for the wine novice, I certainly came out the other end having learned something, Onward to more in depth wine tomes, I go! I would recommend this as a starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about wine.
I think I learned a lot although I imagine I'll be referring back to it regularly and maybe sometimes keeping it in my bag it's size comes in handy there.
Short and to the point, if this undaunting guide is not enough to whet your appetite then it'll at least provide enough interesting facts to serve as a conversation starter at dinner parties.
From the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine inpages
Wine is now one of the most popular drinks in the world.
Many wine drinkers wish they knew more about it without having to understand every detail or go on a wine course,
In TheHour Wine Expert, Jancis Robinson shares her expertise with authority, wit and approachability, From the difference between red and white, to the shape of bottles and their labels, descriptions of taste, colour and smell, to pairing wine with food and the pricequality correlation, Robinson helps us make the most of this mysteriously delicious drink.
Jancis Robinson has been called 'the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world' by Decantermagazine, Inshe was the first person outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine, The Financial Times wine writer, she is the author/editor of dozens of wine books, including Wine Grapes Allen Lane, The Oxford Companion to Wine OUP and The World Atlas of Wine Mitchell Beazley.
Her awardwinning website, www. JancisRobinson. com has subscribers incountries, In October of, I was approached by one of the country's top wineries and presented with free tuition for the WSET LevelAward.
Even though I still had months to go and knew practically everything relevant to this level I took it upon myself to educate myself in every way possible.
Among the very first books I bought was sitelinkJancis Robinson's TheHour Wine Expert, The book promises to give you adegree knowledge of wine, And, happily, the book delivers on its promise,
The first promise it makes and delivers is how quickly you can read this book, If you have a lazy day to spare on your calendar, then by all means make a cup of coffee not wine just yet and start reading.
It's aish page book written with wit and authority, yet reads smoothly and easily, I finish my first readthrough in one weekend, However, from Januaryto February, I went through this bookmore times, The othertimes were more leisurely, as I got a pen and some sticky notes and starting taking quotes, notes, and exercise tips from this little gold mine.
While the title is a stretch becausehours will never make you an expert on anything, really but the book does tackle everything you may have questions about if you're new to wine.
It also equips you with more than enough exercises to kick start your tasting skills, Robinson sheds light on everything related to the wine world, even if very briefly, She talks about the difference between wine colors bottle shapes wine labels taste, color, and smell descriptors wine grapes and wine regions, She also discusses wine pairings and the pricetoquality relation,
I have read more than sitelinka few wine books since I first started my wine blog a year ago, and I can honestly say this should be the very first book you buy if you decide to pursue and grow your interest in wine.
Vinul, această poezie îmbuteliată este ca o muzică care umple paharul tăcerii,
Lumea minunată a vinului este subiectivă, Cu toate acestea sunt cîteva aspecte pe care orice iubitor ori pasionat al acestei licori trebuie săl știe pentru calitatea și rafinarea propriului gust.
Gusturile nu se discută, întradevăr, dar se educă,
Cartea prezintă întrun mod direct și simplu subiecte precum paharele cele mai potrivite, tipurile de mîncare asociate vinului, cîteva date despre țările cele mai importante care îl produc dar și multe sfaturi care te pot face să alegi sticla potrivită pt tine.
Nu am citit cartea înh și nici nu am devenit expert însă simt că am ceva în plus față un diletant.
Ochii îmi fug direct spre detaliile care mă preocupă pe mine, După cum am spus, aici totul e subiectiv,
E bine de știut cum că tipul de dop și tirbușonul chiar contează iar de poziția în care o sticlă e așezată nici nu mai zic.
Îmbutelierea e piatră de temelie pt vinurile tinere, adică cele care trebuie consumate cît mai repede doardin vinuri se pot învechi.
Un an e ideal. Laîncep să fiu reticent,
Summer Reading Challenge/
Short amp Sweet “Read a book that is less thanpages or a book you can finish in one sitting”
TheHour Wine Expert clocks in at a whoppingpages, and I was able to finish it in one sitting.
This book packs a lot of information into those few pages, While I definitely took some useful tidbits, the information was way too surfacelevel to leave any reader an “expert”,
No book should feature more than one glossary eyewateringly long lists of word definitions, Something I might refer back to in the future but an absolutely ineffective way to learn information in one sitting,
Overall, I took away enough useful tidbits that I will use, but still this quick read has ended up on my dreadedandless book graveyard.
Easy and accessible, if a bit thin, For consumption rather than study, I did read it in less thanhours, No shortcuts offeredto learn about specific wines, the advice is
to Google them, To learn about "wine" as a thing, this book is good, Exactly what the title says, . well, I wouldn't say you would be an expert, but you could certainly be able to pick out an appropriate wine, and maybe let down your hair and try a few you wouldn't normally buy.
Hi Jancis,
can I call you Jancis
I'm writing in regards to yourhour Wine Expert book, It was a delightful read throughout, but I have a few concerns I'd like to address with you my friend Ryan he's a wine specialist, although I'm not sure if of thehour variety said I could write to you.
First, I think the title is confusing: will I become a wine expert only if I read the book withinhours I'm concerned about my liver if that's the case or maybe following your tasting exercises will elevate one's mental state to that of an expert.
Perhaps it is that I'll become oneh after finishing it, Sort of like a nextdaydelivery mechanism, Please clarify.
Second, I'm not totally sure what to do when you present conflicting pieces of information, For example: when you talk about taste descriptors, you start by saying that a beginner's vocabulary is best kept unspoiled, and that whatever words come to their minds are the correct ones which you immediately follow with a list of a hundred industrystandard terms to describe the taste of wine.
Does that mean that to become a wine expert one must sacrifice their unexperienced, pure, immaculate vocabulary and favor that of the wine professionals of yore I was brought up catholic, so I'm familiar with these acts of personal punishment and mutilation in order to deserve a better future, I'm just checking.
I very much enjoyed the descriptions you wrote of the different grapes and specially the wine producing regions, I just wish they didn't feel as much of an afterthought as they do and they were more intertwined with the rest of the content.
It was hard to go back and look for concepts described fifty pages prior, principally because I didn't have much of myhour budget left and the glasses of wine that came with it.
In general, I think this is a very nice introduction and a good reference book to have, particularly for its very portable size.
I am happy I bought it and learned a lot about the drink, Unfortunately, I must admit I do not feel much closer to being an expert, but I won't hold it against you, I must have done something wrong.
Thank you very much, I hope you have a terrific day,
Raúl Fun and easy read, Compact with more than the basics, If you love wine and you want to learn a little more about this sophisticated drink, Jancis has made it possible, The book is inexpensive and pocket size, Buy it, read it and try all the suggested taste test!!! You won't be disappointed I promise, I even bought a set of standard riedel glasses with long stems just to try out new wines, Keep all experimenting playful and don't break the bank, Cause according to Jancis expensive bottles aren't always good, I stuck to therange, And I've found some really interesting steely flavors, Enjoy! Ok so it took me gthours to get through but it really is a short read, This wine book is well, its a bit odd, Im not sure who the audience should be, It wouldnt be interesting unless you have a base knowledge of wine it would be too boring, too factful, but if you have the base knowledge of wine, a lot of the book is stuff you already know.
So who exactly was this book written for
There are two sections I could see myself referencing: one is the common wine terms, particularly words people might commonly use to describe wine flavors or notes the other is the section which provided a summary of different wine regions.
If I were planning a trip to Italy and wanted to see what the wine regions were in Italy and what to expect from that region, I could easily reference this section.
To be honest, it seems a bit like the author who obviously knows her stuff about wine backwards and forwards did a brain dump of wine knowledge and threw it into this book.
And Im not sure who really wants to read someones brain dump,
A “better” wine book for budding wine enthusiasts is “Wine Simple” it teaches similar stuff to this book, but it does it it a more approachable, less intimidating way.
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