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The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snobâ€™s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z.

Wine Snob. The very phrase seems redundant, doesn't it? When faced with this snobbiest of snobberies, the civilian wine enthusiast needs the help of savvy translators like David Kamp and David Lynch. Their Wine Snobâ€™s Dictionary delivers witty explication of both old-school oeno-obsessions (What's claret? Who's Michael Broadbent?) and such new-wave terms as "malolactic fermentation" and "fruit bomb." Among the other things Kamp and Lynch demystify:

Finish: the Snob code-term for "aftertaste." (Robert Parker includes the stopwatch-measured length of a wine's finish in his ratings.)

Meritage: an American wine classification that rhymes with "heritage," and should NEVER be pronounced "meri-TAHJ."

Terroir: that elusive quality of vineyard soil that has sommeliers talking of "gunflint," "leather," and "candied fruits"

Featuring ripe, luscious, full-bodied illustrations by Snob's Dictionary stalwart Ross MacDonald, The Wine Snobâ€™s Dictionary is as heady and sparkling as a vintage Taittinger, only much less expensive... and much more giggle-inducing. Cheers!

Country	USA
Brand	Clarkson Potter
Manufacturer	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780767926928
Color	White
IsAdultProduct
Height	7.99211
Length	4.88188
Weight	0.26235009178
Width	0.35433
ReleaseDate	2008-10-14
NumberOfItems	1

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