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| Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy | 
 enlarge | Authors: Joseph Bastianich, David Lynch
Creators: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Mario Batali
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 100589
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 1.7
ISBN: 0609608487
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.220945
EAN: 9780609608487
ASIN: 0609608487
Publication Date: April 2002
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excellent purchase December 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked this book a lot. The format was perfect for my taste. Every region had its own chapter, written in a very addictive and enjoyable way. Authors did not try to talk about all the producers, giving readers the option to dig deeper into any particular region by themselves, which I find enjoyable. I liked a lot guided tastings. Now I know what to look for in similar books for different countries or continent (for example a book recently purchased on South America was a disappointment). I can now understand why other reviewers said even Italians from Italy would love this book. I think this is the 2005 edition (equal to the 2002 edition, just different cover) and some wines in the tasting areas changed names or stopped doing the particular bottle. I am in the middle of discovering the new ones for the regions I am starting with. In case anybody knows about a site where the tastings are updated or would like to exchange corrections please contact me.
The Definitive Guide to Italian Wines July 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Clear and concise, this guide clarifies a complex subject - the history and present state of Italian wines. While it is objective in its recommendations, anecdotes of regional Italian life add the human interest elements that make us care about Italy and its wines.
 Vino Italiano: Libro Supremo February 12, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this book is a very nice read. the anecdotes showed good referance to the italian lifestyle. showed through knowledge of Italian wines. also had very interesting recipes throughout.
A different sort of wine book December 9, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a different sort of wine book, one whose
peculiarities are perfectly suited to its subject.
Italy produces more wine than any other nation and
consumes more wine per capita. It is (Greece aside)
the birthplace of civilized winemaking and everyday
wine drinking too. Italians drink more wine too,
consuming annually something like 16 gallons per capita.
If you remember that per capita means 'for every man, woman
and child" and that 16 gallons annually is almost 2
bottles a week, the figure is quite astounding.
So it's peculiarly paradoxical that for centuries, Italy
produced and was known for some genuinely terrible wine.
The bad wine came in part form bad growing techniques. If
grape growing was bad, wine making was worse and there was
little reason to improve it. Bad transportation and a
generally impoverished peasantry ruled out competition
among producers. There was no domestic urban middle class
of the sort that bought and demanded French wines. Worse
yet there were no wine-poor neighbors whose tastes and demand
could shape a winemaking industry.
About thirty years ago, everything changed. Returning the
favor of 1492, Americans discovered Italy. The discovery was
multi-faceted and so is this book.
Along with Italian wine, we went crazy for the country,
the food, the people, the design and the culture. Vino
Italiano is about all of these things.
There are nineteen chapters each devoted to a region and
you can read them like short stories. There's a brief
cultural historical introduction followed by a discussion
of red, white, sweet and sparkling wines, then a list of
regionally important grape varieties. There are some
entertaining notes on wine tourism, some suggested tastings
and finally, some simple recipes from the region.
For the encyclopediacly inclined, useful appendices
include a listing of grapes by variety, a directory
of DOC and IGT zones and a short list of producers.
A book that will add to your enjoyment of its subject.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN 9781601640005
In "Vino Italiano" veritas November 9, 2006
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
While "the book includes historial wine information and regional maps as well as Italian travel information and recipes", it also includes invaluable information on winemakers and producers. It also takes the mess that is Italy and cleans it up for us so that we can decipher and understand it. In that it is similar to Clive Coates "Cote d'Or".
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