The Food Lovers Guide to Wine by Karen Page

The Food Lovers Guide to Wine Reviews

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  Yaaresse

  This is a follow-up to the authors' 2006 What to Eat with What You Drink. Basically, at this point, the authors are just updating and recycling their material. All of their books are just slightly adjusted versions of each other.
  
  This one is adjusted for the better over their 2006 book. I still have the quibble of it being slow work to look up something specific. Until Kindle fine-tunes their search tool (which they are doing bit by bit with each update), attempting to use "search" is nearly as time-consuming and onerous and tap-tap-tapping your way through the very long wine dictionary.
  
  This book is also (slightly) less pretentious than the last one. And while a lot of the information mirrors their other books, it seems to have been reworded for clarity. Maybe practice makes perfect.
  
  For the $1.99 I paid for the book, it will more than earn its keep on my tablet. Compared to the previous books of the series, I'm going four stars. It's probably being a little too generous, but Goodreads insists on not letting us have that half-star option. Still, I think the Wine Folly books are easier to use and more attuned to the part of the population that just wants a decent wine with dinner without having to take out a second mortgage.
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  Julie

  A follow-up to their 2006 reference & pairing guide What to Drink With What You Eat, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg offer this labor of love. It's a sweeping overview of the world of fine wine that approaches wine from many different angles: historical, sensory, aesthetic, practical. True to their mission of desnobbing the art and process of wine appreciation, Page and Dornenburg write in an engaging, accessible style.
  
  I appreciate their tackling of the matter of taste and agree that quality can be measured objectively but preference is in the palate of the beholder.
  
  This guide is perhaps most useful to someone in the early-intermediate stages of understanding wine, but still serves as a valuable reference to any wine lover.
  
  
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  May

  I don't know very much about wine and I mostly bought this because of Josh's recent interest in wines, but it was chock full of information. Everything from a history of wine in the United States, to the best serving temperatures, to what kind of wine you might like if you like this other type of wine. Definitely a great resource for a couple of amateurs.
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  Janelle

  In the spirit of full disclosure, I won this one through GoodReads. Lots of good info about food and wine here. I haven't yet ready every word of it, but there is much for an amateur wine enthusiast to learn from this book.
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  Diane Rinella

  Fantastic way to learn about wine for foodies. There are some great notes in here that will save you tons of studying. Truthfully, if what you really want is to pair wine with food, you want Karen Page's other book, What to Eat With What You Eat.
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  David

  Love, love, love this book! So much great information. As a total beginner when it came to wine, this book taught me so much. Almost a year since I first read it and I still refer back to it all the time when picking out wines.
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  Abraham Ray

  don't like alcohol,don't know why I decided to read this book myself,you might decide otherwise though.
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  Valerie Sherman

  A really great base for me to begin really learning about wine. The huge list of grapes, regions, etc. was a bit daunting to read through, but it is probably more useful as a reference.
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  Tina

  Informative book for anyone that is interested in Wine's history (this took up most of the book).