Knowing How to Talk About Wine (French Edition) by Jean Szlamowicz | Cerf

Wine is a world of sensations and sometimes complex terms. With How to Talk About Wine, winner of the OIV Award 2024 in the Tasting category, Jean Szlamowicz offers you a unique immersion into the vocabulary of oenology. Have you ever wondered why a wine can be described as dry, having body, or being full-bodied? Why do we talk about the appearance of a wine rather than its color, or a white wine that isn’t really white?
This book demystifies expressions such as fruity, botrytized, mineral, or even sunny. For amateurs as well as professionals, this book provides clear and precise answers to better understand the subtleties of wine language.
Jean Szlamowicz, professor and linguist, reveals the best and the worst of wine jargon. He invites you to break away from pompous and sometimes misleading conventions to appreciate a more authentic and accessible discourse about wine.
Prefaced by Jean-Robert Pitte, this book is a valuable resource for those looking to understand how to talk about wine with finesse and accuracy, far from clichés and stereotypes. With a humorous and kind style, the author dissects each word to help you rediscover the pleasure of tasting through words. Whether you are a curious person, an amateur, or a professional, this book invites you to savor not only wine but also the language that surrounds it.

Features:

• Title: How to Talk About Wine
• Author: Jean Szlamowicz
• Preface: Jean-Robert Pitte
• Publisher: Cerf
• Publication Date: 10/26/2023
• Collection: SOCIETY
• Language: French
• Format: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 21 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
• Weight: 260 g
• EAN13: 9782204153409
• ISBN: 978-2-204-15340-9