Wine Tasting: A Comprehensive Guide For Everyone: A Definitive Handbook: From Amateur to Professional

By M Charles McBee

Wine Tasting - A comprehensive guide for "everyone" - is more than just that. This handbook takes both the professional and the amateur from that very first "whiff," or experience of the bouquet, to the aftertaste and how best to determine if the wine is exceptional or not. Every aspect of wine tasting is clearly covered in a light, friendly review of the subject. The handbook then blends the instructive information found in the beginning pages to a "how to" structure for continuing the learning process at home and with friends. Charles McBee covers the "ins" and "outs" of wine tasting, utilizing the 9 basic or "classic" varietal grapes used around the world for growing wine grapes. The classics are those wines selected because of their popularity with Wine Lists in restaurants, or easily found in retail wine shops, and culled from a list of 168 different wine grapes grown in 176 countries.A word about "Wine Quest 95 PLUS." Charles conducts a comprehensive wine education event at my wife's high end, luxury Bed & Breakfast in Charlottesville, Virginia (Cedar Spring Inn & Spa). This event takes place the better part of a day in three informative, fact-filled sessions at the Inn (in their own vineyards) and at various local Virginia wineries. But the appreciation of wine should not just be about the quantity. You don't have to drink a lot to understand the qualities of what you love. The differences are staggering. And even though chemistry plays a bigger role today, the underlying element and that has never changed since the beginning of time, the principal necessity in producing high quality varietal wine is...Soil! Not just dirt. Several perfect examples are Bordeaux and Burgundy, both in France, and the Napa Valley in California. Without going too deep into dirt chemistry, suffice to say, as you come to realize basic varietal characteristics, you will commonly rate wines from these regions higher than all others because of the soil.To set up a strategy to self-teach yourself how to truly develop an extensive understanding of varietal wines via the technique of tasting. We mean tasting...in the traditional, professional way! And not by attending open wine tasting events, or broad-based seminars, but utilizing the same techniques we in the industry practice on a regular basis. But, first things first. A guide to planning, executing, and completing the process, ending with the satisfaction of learning something.However, from Charles, you'll learn the fundamentals that must be understood before embarking on the quest to know and understand varietal wines. A must for anyone looking to properly entertain family, friends, business associates and/or clients, or whomever. While some may perceive that such a course in learning about varietal wines is perhaps impossibly difficult, not unlike rocket science - which on some level it may very well be as we are dealing with Mother Nature coupled with the ins and outs of chemistry - these false perceptions can be quickly erased when one focuses on the simple truth about wine. It makes that special meal that much more special!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719004579
• ISBN13: 9781719004572
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"