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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A good copy of ""One of the most easily understood books on wine ever written in English. It is a great guide for the amateur and the connoisseur as well."--Craig Claiborne" Shelf-wear to covers. Scratching to both covers. Small divots on front cover continue until the Table of Contents. A crease is along the length of the spine. Smudging and a small spot on the back cover. Text is clean with no markings. Illustrated including 6 leaves of plates. From verso:"First published 1975.This A & W Visual Library edition published by A & W Publishers Inc."Wear to bottom edging. 242 pages. Contents:"Preface; Introduction; Part One: Before You Buy:What You Need to Know to Purchase Wine; Identifying Wine: The Four Basic Terms; Wine Laws; How to Read a Wine Label; Vintage and Reality; The Art of Making Wine; Your Wine Merchant; Part Two: Purchasing: Guide To Specific Wine Recommendations: How to Use the Guide; The Tastings; Purchase Recommendations by Wine-Types; Red Wines: French Red Bordeaux, Bordeaux-Style Wines, and California Cabernet Sauvignon; French Red Burgundies, Burgundy-Style Wines, and California Pinot Noir; Beaujolais; Zinfandel; Italian Chianti, California Chianti, and Related Hearty Reds; Bardolino and Valpolicella; Two California Varietals: Gamay Beaujolais and Napa Gamay; White Wines: The Chardonnay Grape: French White Burgundies and California Pinot Chardonnay; The Riesling Grape, German and Alsatian White Wines, California Johannisberg Riesling, and Gewurztraminer; White Bordeaux, the Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon Grapes; California Chenin Blanc and Wines of the Lower Loire Valley; The Everyday White Wines: Non-French Chablis and Sauterne; White Wines in the German Style; White Wines of Italy, Spain, and Portugal; Roses; Other North American Wines: U. S. Wines Produced East of the Rockies and Canadian-Produced Wines; Food and Wine: Enjoying Wine with Food; Food and Wine Chart; Cheese and Wine Chart; Part Three: Background: Storage, Decanting, Glassware, and Bottle Shapes; How to Give a Wine Tasting; Appendixes: Acknowledgments; Wine as an Industry; Words Used to Describe Wine; The Best Vineyards and Estates of the German Wine Regions; Important Burgundy Estates; Some Dependable Bordeaux Shippers; Reliable Burgundy Shippers; Reliable Shippers of Rhine, Moselle, and Alsatian Wines; Alexis Lichine's Suggested Classification of the Grands Crus Rouges de Bordeaux; Maps: France, Spain and Portugal, and California; Bibliography; Index" From front cover:""Which Wine?" provides explicit direction to better wines, of higher value, at lower prices.(It's) an insider's guide to better buys in the marketplace.a whole home-study course for the budding wine enthusiast en route to connoisseurdom."--Robert Lawrence Balzer".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1977 printing. Very Good or better condition. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). Overseas buyers please also note that shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel.