Foreword

Introduction

Wine 101

These Taste Buds Are for You

Making Wine Taste Good

Navigating a Wine Shop

How to Open a Bottle - and What to Do Next

Is It a Grape? Is It a Place?

Judging a Wine by Its Label

Pinot Envy and Other Secrets about Grapes

If It's Tuesday, This must be France

Doing Europe

The Brave New World of wine

Bubbling Beauties

Wine Roads Less Traveled: Aperitif, Dessert, and Fortified Wines

To Have and to Hold - or to Sell

Insider's Guide to Wine Buying

You Never Graduate from Wine School

What Does a Rainbow Taste Like?

Marrying Wine with Food (And Other Entertaining Issues)

The Sweet Seduction of an Older ... Wine

Answer to Ten Common Questions about Wine

Ten Wine Myths Demystified

Appendix A: The 1885 Classification of the Great Growths of the Gironde

Appendix B: Vintage Wine Chart: 1975-1994

Index

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