Cracking The Wine Code
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Cracking the Wine Code is available in over 500 outlets worlwide as well as online through Amazon, WH Smith, Foyles, Blackwell and Waterstones. Stockists include all the major book chains (Waterstones, Blackwell, Daunt, The Book Warehouse), Bentalls and Fenwick department stores, Fortnum & Mason, Whole Foods and a great many independent bookshops including Stanfords, the London Review Bookshop and even Stromness Books on the Orkney Islands! It can also be purchased from delicatessens (Jeroboams, Clarkes, Byfords, Burwash Manor Larder, Gog Magog Farm Shop, Wyken Vineyards), card and gift stores (Card Bureau, Perfect Presents), arts & crafts boutiques (Cambridge Botanic Gardens, Fitzwilliam Museum), wine merchants (Noel Young Wines, The Daily Drinker, The Old Bridge Wine Shop, Bacchanalia, Nickolls & Perks), chocolatiers (Chocolat Chocolat) and homeware stores (Kooks Unlimited, You, Clement Josceleyn).
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Why You'll Love Cracking The Wine Code
Cracking the Wine Code is the starting point for any curious but frustrated wine drinker: someone who doesn’t know much about wine other than the fact that they enjoy it, someone who wants to understand why they prefer a particular wine over another and how to recognise one that is similar.
It provides answers to all your wine queries: a systematic approach to defining your preferences, an explanation of how to make sense of a wine label and a shopping-friendly style guide to the most common grape varieties and wine regions on the market.
It also includes practical tips on serving, storing and buying wine, hints on how you can tell if a wine is off, plus some easy rules to follow when you want to pair wine with a meal. For the budding wine expert, there are insights into buying at auction, advice on investing in wine ‘futures’ and an introduction to how traditional, as well as alternative, organic and biodynamic wines are produced.
No more ‘I don’t know much about wine, but I know what I like’ – you too can be a connoisseur!
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