Wine Quality: Tasting and Selection
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Author(s): K. Grainger
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9781405113663
Format: softback
163pp
Price: £45.00
Review Date: 17 March 2009
Review: There are many books on the wine regions of the world and the profiles of their produce, and studies of grape varieties and their characteristics. But this book concentrates instead on the concepts and techniques of tasting and evaluating wines for their quality and in fact the complexity in assessing quality in wines. It also describes the faults that can destroy a wine and some misconceptions on what constitutes quality. Although it is written to reduce the technical aspects for general readership some amount of it is inevitable. The terms and structure are the same as used by the diploma level of the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and as such may be useful to those students and professionals generally. Chapter titles are: wine tasting, appearance, nose, palate, tasting conclusions, wine faults and flaws, quality – assurances and guarantees, quality – the natural factors and a sense of place, constraints upon quality wine production, production of quality wines, selection by buyers.