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644 pages
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So you want to know how to store left over wine? How to order wine in a restaurant without feeling foolish or read a wine label? What's the difference between shiraz and syrah? How do you tell if a wine is corked and what does it mean when someone calls a wine flabby?

The Wine Lover's Companion answers these questions and many more. Authors Ron Herbst and Sharon Tyler Herbst are back with the Wine Lover's Companion, the perfect partner for their best-selling Food Lover's Companion.

This compact guide is packed with definitions and information on more than 3500 wine-related terms, charts, maps tables and handy tips. In addition to extensive listings of wine terms, names and places, the Herbsts include a proceed-as-you-please crash course in wine tasting in the form of easily consumed info bites. You'll be able to 'wine-speak' with the best as you toss off terms like body, finish and balance and drop wine tasting words like elegant, finesse, flabby and frizzante to name a few. A spin or two around the wine aroma wheel will have you nosing out more smells than you thought ever existed in that space above the wine in your glass. And reading a wine label? A piece of cake after you skim this section.

This user-friendly reference is a must for anyone with a thirst for wine.

Reviewed by Judith Lane, wine writer

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