Wine for dummies

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""Wine For Dummies, 4th Edition""; ""About the Authors""; ""Authors� Acknowledgments""; ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""About This Book""; ""Conventions Used in This Book""; ""Foolish Assumptions""; ""How This Book Is Organized""; ""Icons Used in This Book""; ""Part I: Getting to Know Wine""; ""Chapter 1: Wine 101""; ""How Wine Happens""; ""What Color Is Your Appetite?""; ""Other Ways of Categorizing Wine""; ""Chapter 2: These Taste Buds Are for You""; ""The Special Technique for Tasting Wine""; ""Parlez-Vous Winespeak?""; ""The Quality Issue"" The Final Analysis: Do You Like It?Chapter 3: Pinot Envy and Other Secrets about Grape Varieties

Why Grapes Matter

A Primer on White Grape Varieties

A Primer on Red Grape Varieties

Chapter 4: Wine Names and Label Lingo

The Wine Name Game

Wine Labels, Forward and Backward

Chapter 5: Behind the Scenes of Winemaking

Grapegrowing, Winemaking, and the Jargon that Surrounds Them

Even More Winemaking Terms

Part II: Wine and You: Up Close and Personal

Chapter 6: Navigating a Wine Shop

Buying Wine Can Intimidate Anyone ""Wine Retailers, Large and Small""""Choosing the Right Wine Merchant""; ""Strategies for Wine Shopping""; ""Chapter 7: Confronting a Restaurant Wine List""; ""The Restaurant Wine Experience""; ""How Wine Is Sold in Restaurants""; ""How to Read a Wine List""; ""Ordering Your Wine""; ""Handling the Wine Presentation Ritual""; ""Restaurant Wine Tips""; ""Chapter 8: The Insider�s Track to Serving and Using Wine""; ""Getting the Cork Out""; ""Does Wine Really Breathe?""; ""Does the Glass Really Matter?""; ""Not Too Warm, Not Too Cold""; ""Keeping Leftover Wine""; ""Entertaining with Wine"" ""Part III: The “Old World� of Wine""""Chapter 9: Doing France""; ""The French Model""; ""France�s Wine Regions""; ""Bordeaux: The Incomparable""; ""Burgundy: The Other Great French Wine""; ""The Hearty Rh�nes of the Valley""; ""The Loire Valley: White Wine Heaven""; ""Alsace Wines: French, Not German""; ""The South and Southwest""; ""Other French Wine Regions""; ""Chapter 10: Italy, the Heartland of Vino""; ""The Vineyard of Europe""; ""Reds Reign in Piedmont""; ""Tuscany the Beautiful""; ""Tre Venezie""; ""Snapshots from the Rest of Italy"" ""Chapter 11: Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Beyond""""Intriguing Wines from Old Spain""; ""Portugal: More Than Just Port""; ""Germany: Europe�s Individualist""; ""Switzerland�s Stay-at-Home Wines""; ""Austria�s Exciting Whites (and Reds)""; ""The Re-emergence of Hungary""; ""The Glory That Is Greece""; ""Part IV: Discovering the New World of Wine""; ""Chapter 12: The Southern Hemisphere Arises""; ""Australian Wine Power""; ""The Rise of New Zealand""; ""Chile Discovers Itself""; ""Argentina, a Major League Player""; ""South African Wine Safari""; ""Chapter 13: America, America""