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| The New Wine Lover's Companion | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 29078
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 684
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0764120034
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.2203
EAN: 9780764120039
ASIN: 0764120034
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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New Review July 15, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bought this as a gift for a friend who is a fine wine lover. She says it is a great gift and she is able to refer to it frequently with surprising answers to her questions and items of interest that she had not heard about. Very nice and received in a timely manner.
My favorite reference September 22, 2005
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm a budding neophyte, and refer to this book constantly. Whether I'm reading The World Atlas of Wine, the Complete Wine Course, Sotheby's Encyclopedia, Cote d'Or - whatever - I always turn to this book for help. It almost always provides me with the extra information I need to understand what I'm reading in the other books - and it comes with pronunciations!! While the information isn't as in-depth as The Oxford Companion to Wine, it is certainly easier to carry around. And again, there's that bit about the pronunciations...you have to have that...how else are you going to know, unless you're French or speak French, that Echezeaux, an important Grand Cru vineyard in Burgundy, is pronounced ay-shuh-ZOH.
It's a wine dictionary May 8, 2005
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
I wasn't aware that this was a dictionary of wine terms when I ordered it, so I wanted other prospective buyers to be aware that that's what this is. It is not written like a regular book.
For its purposes, it's great.
Excellent Wine Reference October 18, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is an awesome wine reference, containing a wealth of information. The perfect compliment to "The Food Lover's Companion"
At 15 bucks it's worth every cent August 27, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The quote on the back cover from Harvey Steiman of the Wine Spectator attracted my attention to this book. He says "Wine Lover's Companion packs a tremendous amount of useful, intriguing information about wine. This book is a joy to use-information is what it is all about." As I browsed through it I could see what he was talking about. I purchased it about a month ago and have learned so much. At 15 bucks it's worth every cent and more. I just got interested in wine about 3 months ago and have looked through a couple of the "introductory" wine books and although they are useful, Wine Lover's Companion is the one I go to first to look up a new term or find out about a wine growing region or how to pronounce something (I haven't seen another wine book address this at all). If you're new to the world of wine this is a must have.
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