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The Wine Avenger
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Irreverent, informative, and controversial, The Wine Avenger is indispensable guide to wine for beginners and enthusiasts alike. A longtime champion of the victimized wine consumer, Willie Gluckstern debunks the myths and misinformation surrounding the (allegedly) complex subject of wine. His straightforward advice includes: *The wines that go BEST with food--and why.
*A cure for label worship: There are just as many lousy $60 bottles as $3.99 bottles.
*How to avoid getting ripped off in stores and restaurants.
*How to choose a great wine shop: Do they know where Italy is?
*Dreary housekeeping tips, such as storage, decanting, saving opened wine, and that sulfite thing. Plus, the straight poop on oak, the MSG of wine, a few well-chosen words for greedy restaurants and retailers (Those bastards ), and an unprecedented expose of mass-market Champagne, including how to find the good stuff by cracking the secret label code.
Author: Willie Gluckstern
Publisher: Fireside
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.28h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780684822570
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 146
Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1699
*A cure for label worship: There are just as many lousy $60 bottles as $3.99 bottles.
*How to avoid getting ripped off in stores and restaurants.
*How to choose a great wine shop: Do they know where Italy is?
*Dreary housekeeping tips, such as storage, decanting, saving opened wine, and that sulfite thing. Plus, the straight poop on oak, the MSG of wine, a few well-chosen words for greedy restaurants and retailers (Those bastards ), and an unprecedented expose of mass-market Champagne, including how to find the good stuff by cracking the secret label code.
Author: Willie Gluckstern
Publisher: Fireside
Published: 06/01/1998
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.28h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780684822570
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 146
Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1699
About the Author
Willie Gluckstern, an outspoken critic of wine snobbery, label worship, and over-oaked Chardonnay, is the founder of Wines for Food, a consumer wine school in New York City. He has written the wine lists for hundreds of Manhattan restaurants, and is the purchasing director for the popular wineshop Nancy's Wines in New York City. He lives in New York City with his moldering 8-track tape collection.
