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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Serie: In A Day For Dummies
- Sprache: Englisch
Wine basics in a day? Easy. Wine can be an intimidating topic, but doesn't have to be--and this handy little guide gives you just what you need to buy and serve wine with confidence. Buying & Serving Wine In A Day For Dummies covers everything from navigating wine shops, lists, and varietals to opening and serving wine properly. Plus, you'll get tips and advice for storing both unopened and leftover wine. * Navigating wine shops and restaurant wine lists * How to open a bottle, choose a glass, and serve the wine * Serving temperatures for wine, and guidelines for storing leftover wine * Understanding more about wine from its label * Online component takes readers beyond the book with bonus content and features Get set to impress your friends with your newfound knowledge in no time!
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Buying and Serving Wine In A Day For Dummies®
Table of Contents
Buying & Serving Wine In A Day For Dummies®
by Ed McCarthy
Certified Wine Educator
and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
Master of Wine
Buying & Serving Wine In A Day For Dummies®
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com
Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
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Introduction
Wine is a rich and complex field. Wine tastes like nothing else, it has an amazing variety, and it brings people together at the table. We could go on and on (and have in many of our Wine For Dummies books) about wine, but all you want to do is enjoy a nice bottle of wine with your friends and family occasionally. That’s why we’ve put together this e-book on buying and serving wine.
When you walk down the wine aisle of your neighborhood grocery store or venture into your local wine shop, you may be intimidated by the sheer number of bottles, the colorful labels, and the foreign words. But with information gleaned from this book, you can become more confident about trying and buying bottles of wine.
Of course, you need to know what to do with the wine when you get it home. Everything you need to know to serve wine is covered here, from getting the cork out to serving the wine at the right temperature to storing any leftovers.
As a bonus, we also tell you how to order wine in a restaurant and participate in the presentation and pouring of the bottle. With this book, you’ll be on your way to becoming a wine connoisseur in no time.
What You Can Do In A Day
The goal of Buying & Serving Wine In A Day For Dummies isto help you understand the basic characteristics of wine, choose a good wine, and serve it with confidence. This book can help you better enjoy wine, whether you spend a free afternoon with it or dip in and out whenever you find a few spare minutes.
We start by explaining the basic types of wine, how to taste it, and how wines are named. Then we move on to practical wine matters — in the wine shop, in your home, and in the restaurant. Find out how to decipher wine labels, remove stubborn corks, and decode restaurant wine lists. You can read through the book once and take away just what you need, or you can return to it again and again as you develop a greater appreciation for wine. How you use this book is up to you!
Foolish Assumptions
We assume that you picked up this book because you want to know more about how to select good wines and serve them properly. After all, serving wine isn’t like serving a soft drink. There’s a bit of an art to enjoying a glass of wine, whether at home or in a restaurant. We help you make the most of enjoying wine anywhere.
Icons Used in This Book
We’ve included handy icons to help you focus on important information to remember as you develop your wine knowledge. Here’s what they mean:
Advice and information that will make you a wiser wine drinker or buyer is marked by this bull’s-eye so you won’t miss it.
There’s very little you can do in the course of moderate wine consumption that can land you in jail — but you could spoil an expensive bottle and sink into a deep depression over your loss. This symbol warns you about common pitfalls.
Some issues in wine are so fundamental that they bear repeating. Just so you don’t think that we repeated ourselves without realizing it, we mark the repetitions with this symbol.
Take a break from the text for a quick exercise designed to help you improve your wine smarts. You may do a bit of research, practice pouring wine, or try identifying tastes and aromas in wine.This icon tells you what to do.
When you see this icon, head to this book’s companion website at www.dummies.com/inaday/buyingandservingwine. Online, you’ll find more-detailed information about topics that we cover in the book.
Chapter 1
Unlocking the Mysteries of Wine
In This Chapter
Recognizing why wine color matters
Discovering differences among table wine, dessert wine, and sparkling wine
Getting the hang of wine tasting
We know plenty of people who enjoy drinking wine but don’t know much about it. (Been there, done that ourselves.) Knowing a lot about wine definitely isn’t a prerequisite to enjoying it. But familiarity with certain aspects of wine can make choosing wines a lot easier, enhance your enjoyment of wine, and increase your comfort level. You can learn as much or as little as you like. The journey begins here.
In this chapter we introduce you to what the color of wine means, other ways of categorizing wine, and how to discern the taste of wine. Spend some time with this chapter, just as you’d spend some time with a good bottle of wine, to get a firm understanding of the basics of wine.
Wine 101
Wine people, such as many wine professionals and really serious connoisseurs, don’t make it easy for regular people to enjoy wine. You have to know strange names of grape varieties and foreign wine regions. You have to figure out whether to buy a $20 wine or an $8 wine that seem to be pretty much the same thing. You even need a special tool to open the bottle once you get it home!
All this complication surrounding wine will never go away, because wine is a very rich and complex field. But you don’t have to let the complication stand in your way. With the right attitude and a little understanding of what wine is, you can begin to buy and enjoy wine.
So what, exactly, is wine? Wine is, essentially, nothing but liquid, fermented fruit. The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like this:
1. Pick a large quantity of ripe grapes from grapevines.
You can substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.9 percent of all the wine in the world is made from grapes, because grapes make the best wines.
2. Put the grapes into a clean container that doesn’t leak.
3. Crush the grapes somehow to release their juice.
Once upon a time, feet performed this step.
4. Wait.
In its most basic form, winemaking is that simple. After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organisms that exist naturally in the vineyard and, therefore, on the grapes) come into contact with the sugar in the grapes’ juice and gradually convert that sugar into alcohol. Yeasts also produce carbon dioxide, which evaporates into the air. When the yeasts are done working, your grape juice is wine. The sugar that was in the juice is no longer there — alcohol is present instead. (The riper and sweeter the grapes, the more alcohol the wine will have.) This process is called fermentation.
What Color Is Your Appetite?
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to wine, it’s okay to like some colors more than others. You can’t get away with saying “I don’t like green food!” much beyond your sixth birthday, but you can express a general preference for white, red, or pink wine for all your adult years.
In the following sections, we mention pairing wines with food. You can find more information at www.dummies.com/inaday/buyingandservingwine.
(Not exactly) white wine
Whoever coined the term white wine
