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Vines for Wines: A Wine Lover’s Guide to the Top Wine Grape Varieties
Riesling, Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes can make magnificent wines but there are also many other excellent wine varieties that for many of us are rarely experienced. Vines for Wines will expand the wine lover’s knowledge and appreciation of a great range of wines and help to explore their individual preferences for specific varieties, blends, flavours and styles.
This book is based on the highly successful Wine Grape Varieties, which is an aid to identifying grape vines. Vines for Wines, however, focuses on wines from the average consumer’s point-of-view, introducing the different wine grape varieties and the wines made from them, including blends. Each variety is represented by a colour photograph of the grape variety, its current world plantings, wine produced and notes describing the varietal characters for each wine grape variety.
The tasting terms and wine notes for each variety provide a benchmark for the consumer to assess the quality of wines they drink, and to allow them to share and compare their experiences confidently with other wine lovers.
Features
* Easy to read and assumes no in-depth knowledge
* Explains tasting terminology and wine styles
* High quality colour photographs
Customer Review: Nice, but shallow
The book is a slim quality paperback with good production values. There is a page, with a photograph and a modest amount of text, for each of the slightly more than 80 grape varieties discussed. The varieties are arranged alphabetically and there is a somewhat helpful table of synonyms. However, there is no index. Petite Sirah has no entry, but is mentioned under Durif as a possible mixture of Durif and Peloursin, which also has no entry. Pinot Blanc has no entry and is listed in the table of as having no synonyms. The entry for Melon says that California Pinot Blanc is actually Melon. The entry for Pinot Gris adds that Chenin Blanc also has been called Pinot Blanc, and it discusses the true Pinot Blanc. There are a few grape varieties with which I’m familiar that got no mention. On the other hand, about half were entirely new to me. I’m glad I own the book, but I’m not certain it’s worth its price. I’d rather own Kerridge and Antcliff (1999), Wine Grape Varieties, which is out of print. I’ve not seen it, but it claims to be a comprehensive listing of the world’s wine grape varieties, and I assume that it includes a fuller discussion.
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