Clueless About Wine or Soups and Stews for Fall and Winter Days

Clueless About Wine: The Best-Selling Guide to the Basics

Author: Richard Kitowski

Don't panic.

The simple truth is, choosing--and enjoying--the right wine only seems complicated.

Clueless about Wine--fully revised and updated for today's wine enthusiasts--is packed with practical, up-to-date, easy-to-follow information that will turn even the most clueless consumer into a confident wine enthusiast.

Table of Contents:

The Opening
Ready to Pop the Cork?

What is Wine, Anyway?
A Basic Survival Kit

• Is It Only Fermented Grape Juice?


• Why Doesn't Wine Smell Like Grapes?


• WineSpeak


• What's in a Grape?


• Do I need to Know Grape Names?


• Where in the World Do Grapes Come From?

Vine to Wine
Getting the Grapes into Bottles

• Our Three-minute History Lesson


• From Grapes to Bottles

A Wine Is a Wine Is a Wine
So What's on the Shelves?

• Still Wine


• Sparkling Wine


• Fortified Wine


• Dessert Wine


• Aromatized Wine


• Is Wine Good for You?

Where in the World Does Wine Come From?
Around the Wine World in about 60 Pages

• Old World vs. New World


• Deciphering All Those Initials


• France


• Italy


• Germany


• Spain


• Other Old World Countries


• United States


• Canada


• South America


• Australia


• New Zealand


• South Africa


• Rest of the World

The Art of Tasting Wine
Or Learning How to Spit

• The "Eyes" Have It


• Taste -- It's All in Your Nose!


• Is It OK to Touch?


• Who Gets the Last Word


• Putting It All Together


• Getting Ready to Spit


• Getting the Wine Out


• Do You Need Glasses?


• Tasting like a Pro


• Saving Opened Wine

Wine HasStyle
What's Yours?

• What's in Style?


• Finding Your Style


• Chill Out: Temperatures for Wine


• A Case of Wine for a Desert Island

Would You Like Wine with That?
The Art of Food and Wine Matching

• Practical Pairing Principles


• Wine for all Seasons


• Buying Wine in a Restaurant

Buy, Buy Wine
Hello Empties

• Where Can I Buy Wine?


• How Much to Spend?


• What's in Store For You?


• Visiting a Winery?


• Buying over the Internet


• Buying at an Auction


• Wine-Buying Clubs


• Giving It Away!

Mine, All Mine
Why Keep Wine?

• What Should We Have Tonight?


• Buying for the Future


• Do You Have to Spend Much?


• The Right Conditions


• What About Shelving


• It's All About Balance


• Does Wine Improve Indefinitely?

Index

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Soups and Stews for Fall and Winter Days

Author: Liza Fosburgh

From standard to adventurous, this collection offers recipesinspired by both a Southern childhood and Northern winters.