SOTHEBY'S WORLD WINE ENCYCLOPEDIA

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If you want to learn about wines of the world and advance your comprehension of wine production, grape varieties, appellations, and individual wineries, understand the factors (such as location, soil, climate, and methods of viticulture) that affect the taste and nose, and visit your wine shop with a list of quality wines to explore, Tom Stevenson is the man to read.  He is the author of 12 books.Stevenson has the gift of taking vast quantities of knowledge and experience and translating them into lucid, sparkling prose, easily graspable by the novice, yet still interesting and instructive to the connoisseur.

Arranged geographically, with nearly 100 maps, profiles on top producers, and valuable Author's Choice charts for each region, the Wine Encyclopedia covers the wines of Europe (from Great Britain and Switzerland to Southeast Europe, Greece, and the Levant), as well as wines from North and South Africa, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. In addition, there's a guide to wine and food (pairing fois gras with a Champagne or Sauterne, for example, and claret or Cabernet Sauvignon with beef), a guide to wine flavors (making sense of descriptors such as fig, gooseberry, violet, and hay), a list of good vintages, and a glossary of tasting and technical terms, distinguishing "cheesy" and "chewy" from "creamy" and "corked." Enhanced by beautiful pictures of vineyards, wine labels, and Stevenson himself demonstrating the art of wine tasting, from examining and nosing the wine to spitting it out, this a visually beautiful as well as an informative volume. As sumptuous as an elegant Tuscan Barolo, as rewarding as a Sarget de Gruaud-Larose from Bordeaux, as pleasing as a Ferreira port, the Sotheby Wine Encyclopedia is a remarkable tome of oenological erudition. --Stephanie Gold

Synopsis
Raise the standard in wine excellence with this definitive encyclopedia of wine. A clearly organized, highly illustrated atlas that analyses all the wine growing regions of the world and charts the best wines from France to the Far East, it also troubleshoots potential wine faults. With the authority of the Sotheby's name and 350 color photos, this atlas is sure to become a seasoned classic. 100 maps.

The author, Tom Stevenson , December 3, 1998
Why buyers of the old edition should buy the new one!
Buyers of the latest reprint will notice a change in the number of copies sold for the first edition (SOTHEBY'S WORLD WINE ENCYCLOPEDIA) from (erroneously) more than 100,000 copies to (a corrected) over 220,000 copies. Any author would want such a large number of buyers to purchase a new edition, but apart from the obvious fact that the world of wine has changed out of all recognition in the intervening 9 years, few specific points that may be persuasive are: ·Expanded from 480 to 600 pages ·All maps updated to include new appellations and wine areas ·Extremely comprehensive indexing (a major weak point in the first edition) ·Significantly expanded glossary ·New sections: illustrated comparison of vine-training systems; guide to regional oak-types ·Still the only single-volume wine book that goes from wine atlas through a technical explanation and style-guide for every single wine appellation (French: AOC, VDQS & Vins de Pays; Italian: DOCG, DOC, IGT & Vini da Tavola; Spanish: DOC, DO, VdlT & VC; Portuguese: DOC, IPR & VR; Germany: all Bereiche and Grosslagen described with best villages and best vineyards & producers in best villages listed; all US AVAs etc.) right down to individual producers and in many cases individial wines. The reader from Palo Alto is entitled to his opinion that it is a "not-so-comprehensive encyclopedia" but this author does not know of any other book that attempts this, let alone succeeds. Just Click to Buy...New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia

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