Around the World in 52 Weeks:: The Reno Wine Experience

By Matt Polley, Lori Taylor-Warren and Bob Wildman

This book contains the tasting notes for our year-long, fifty-two weeks of classes/meetings/wine tastings, which are attempts to put into a fun, social context a "top-down" approach to learning about wine, that is starting in Europe and then describing how these grapes and wines have spread to other parts of the world. Every Wednesday at Six O’clock we offer a wine tasting experience, having previously sent out notes describing the wines presented. Our goal was to not only provide an enjoyable experience to our attendees but also to teach people about the World of Wine. A concerted effort was made to weave into these tasting notes the basic information one would need to appreciate and discuss wines on social/business occasions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781698708058

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© Copyright 2021 Robert Wildman.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021915868

Trafford rev. 08/28/2021

Contents

The Old World – France – Bordeaux

On To Burgundy

Beaujolais

Down The Rhone

Along The Loire

France: The Other Regions

Champagne: Bubbles For Valentine’s Day

A Review Of France

On To Italy – One Big Vineyard

Italy’s Piedmont

The Tre Venezie

Italy South Of Rome

On To Spain

Rounding Out Our Wine Tour Of Spain

The Wines Of Portugal

Germany And Austria

The New World – The United States Of America – California Dreaming

Sonoma – Napa’s Country Cousin

Lodi: Warm Weather For Big Wines

Paso Robles: Home Of The Rhone Rangers

The Wines Of Monterey

Frog Wines

Let’s Take A Trip Up Them There Hills And Get Us Some Wine: The Sierra Foothills

California: The Whole State

Cool Down In Oregon

The Wines Of Washington

New York Wines

Our Neighbors: Canada And Mexico

The Charms Of Chile

Argentina

Reviewing The Wines Of South America

The Wines Of Australia

Australia – Two

From Kangaroos To Kiwis: The Wines Of New Zealand

South African Wines

By Way Of Review

More Burgundian Grapes In The New World

Bordeaux Wines There And Here

More Vinuous Comparisons

Comparing Some Lesser-Known Wine Grapes

More Wine Comparisons: Both From The Old And New World

Yet More Wine Comparisons

Wines From The South Pacific

Learning More About Wines

More Old World Grapes In The New World

The Wines Of The World Right Here At Home

Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive

Signature Grapes From Around The Wine World

More World Signature Wines

More More World Signature Wines

Happy Holiday Bubbles In Our Wine Tasting

More Holiday Bubbles

Post-Script

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Matt Polley, Taylor-Warren, and Bob Wildman

We wish to thank Carmen Ann Montiel Wildman for producing the beautiful illustrations which grace our book.

And to The First Street Winos, our forever attendees, we say, Cheers and see you next Wednesday at 6!

AROUND THE WORLD OF WINE IN 52 WEEKS

Matt Polley, Lori Taylor-Warren, and Bob Wildman

The beginnings of these wine tastings/meetings stretch back many years, to the early 70s in fact, when one of the authors was completing graduate school. Well, we’ll just let Bob tell you his story in his own words:

As many of you know from personal experience, graduate school is an all-consuming experience. For me, it involved 12-plus hour days of studying, conducting research and providing psychological services in the clinic and out in the community. When I got to the point in my program that I could see the end coming, it occurred to me that I would need a hobby to engage my attention following my leaving this all-consuming graduate student lifestyle.

One sunny day, I met a neighbor on the sidewalks of our apartment complex. During this conversation, this (then) young man told me that his hobby was the study of wines and wine collecting. He invited me to his apartment to see his wine collection, which was actually merely a few cardboard boxes with bottles of wine stored horizontally in the dividers. He