Wine. It's not rocket science - Book of the month May 2024

The book "Wine. It's not rocket science" is written by Ophelie Neiman and illustrated by Yannis Varoutsikos.

It's a quick and easy guide to understanding, buying, tasting and pairing each type of wine. It is a book suitable for those at the beginning in the world of wine, offering information written in easy-to-understand words accompanied by exceptional graphics.

The book follows examples that may exist in real life in the following chapters:

Juliette plans a party
-Before the party
-During the party
-After the party

Jack learns to taste wine
- The colours of wine
-The aromas of wine
-In the mouth
- Finding the wine o f your dreams

Henry participates in the grape harvest
- The grape, from berry to harvest
- White varieties
- Red varieties
- The life of the vine
- Harvest time
- Making wine
- Ageing

Caroline visits the vineyards
- The terroir
- The wines of France
- The wines of Europe
- The wines of the world

Elizabeth becomes an apprentice sommelier
- The basics of food and wine pairing
- Which wine goes with my meal?
- Food assassins
- Which dish goes with my wine?

Paul buys wine
- At a restaurant
- How to decode a wine label
- How to buy a bottle
- How to build a wine cellar

Reasons to read the book: It has a very simple, visual way of understanding and explaining wine.

Where you can find the book: the book is published in English and you can find it on Cărturești website and on Amazon website (attention, on Amazon the cover of the book is different from the one in this article, but if you look over the pages made available on Amazon you will find the same content)

Carmina Nițescu
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