The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass - Alice Feiring with Pascaline Lepeltier, MS

The Dirty Guide to Wine, authored by the esteemed Alice Feiring, revolutionizes our understanding of wine. Instead of focusing on grape varieties or regions, Feiring delves into vineyard soils to uncover the flavors and compositions of wines. This guide provides a straightforward method to discover wines that will captivate you, demystifying traditional tasting practices and introducing an innovative approach that appeals to sommeliers and novice drinkers alike.

Author Presentation: Alice Feiring is a renowned writer in the wine world, known for her innovative perspectives and exploration of natural and unconventional aspects of viticulture. Collaborating with Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier, she offers a refreshing and enlightening approach in this book for all wine lovers.

Back cover: Award-winning wine writer Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape variety is important, a surprising amount of information about flavour and composition can be gleaned from a region’s soil. Feiring’s guide makes it simple to find wines you’ll love.

Breaking new ground and revealing new connections, The Dirty Guide to Wine organises wines not by grape, not by region, not by New or Old World, but by soil. The same winning qualities found in a Bordeaux might be found in a Californian Chardonnay. Feiring provides a clarifying account of the traditions and techniques of wine-tasting, demystifying the practice and introducing a whole new way to enjoy wine to sommeliers and novice drinkers alike.

Features:

• Title: The Dirty Guide to Wine
• Author: Alice Feiring
• ISBN: 978-1-58157-384-8
• Language: English
• Publisher: Countryman Press Inc.
• Publication Date: July 28, 2017
• Format: Paperback / 256 pages
• Dimensions: 22 x 16 cm