Wine Tasting Book for Beginners

By Rebecca Thomas

Are you a fan of wine?

Often find yourself scouring alcohol stores for new flavors to experiment with?

Do you value wine for more than its intoxicating effect?

In that case, this is the book for you. You will learn how to properly host wine tasting parties, social events dominated by the consumption of wine not for intoxication, but for the knowledge of the different processes preceding the final product and how each of those individual processes ?as well as circumstances ?contribute to the flavor of the wine. Not only will you learn how to identify properties of wine based only on sight, but you'll learn to truly appreciate the beverage for what it is, not what it does.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Sep 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781456611545

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Wine Tasting Book for Beginners:

Ultimate Wine Tasting Guide

Rebecca Thomas

Copyright

© 2012 by Rebecca Thomas

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Table of Contents

Copyright

Terms of Use

Brief History

About Wine

Flavors of Wine

Wine Production

Uses of Wine

Glassware

The Methodology of Wine Tasting

Considerations During Tasting

How to Host a Wine Tasting Party

Wine Ratings

How to Serve Wine

Serving Wine – Quick Tips

Conclusion

Terms of Use

The publisher of this book and the accompanying materials have used their best efforts in preparing this book. The publisher make no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the contents of this book. The information contained in this book is strictly for educational purposes. Therefore, if you wish to apply ideas contained in this book, you are taking full responsibility for your actions.

The publisher disclaim any warranties (express or implied), merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose. The author and publisher shall in no event be held liable to any party for any direct, indirect, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of this material, which is provided as is, and without warranties.

Brief History

In high society, wine tasting is considered a luxurious way to pass one’s time when in the presence of similarly well-off company.

Nowadays, it’s accepted in most any social class. Naturally, you can’t just jump into wine tasting. You must first gain basic knowledge about the drink and learn how to properly taste it.

Surprisingly, wine tasting can be considered a trainable skill.

Learning about wine is simple. It comes in innumerable varieties and from locales all across the world. To measure wines against one another, you must be familiar with these numerous concoctions.

If you want to really stand out among fellow practitioners, you may also consider learning serving techniques. The contents of this e-book hope to make available to you all the pertinent information to wine tasting.

About Wine

If you didn’t already know, wine is made by fermenting grapes with yeast. The yeast chemically modifies the sugars in the grapes to become alcohol.

Because of several other chemical properties of grapes,