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Parker's Wine Bargains: The World's Best Wine Values Under $25
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Item Description...
Overview
The author and publisher of The Wine Advocate offers a guide to affordable wines that includes a food and wine pairing guide, a vintage chart and many helpful lists, such as "Top 20 Whites," and "Top 20 Gift Wines," in a resource that also includes information on locating retailers, importers and wineries. Original.
Publishers Description
Yes, you can buy world-class wine on a budget. With Parker's Wine Bargains, America's most infl uential wine critic offers a guide to the world's best wines priced at $25 or less. Robert M. Parker, Jr., earned his international reputation and unprecedented influence as a dedicated consumer advocate -- if a wine isn't worth the money, he says so, regardless of the wine's pedigree. In Parker's Wine Bargains, for the first time he and his Wine Advocate team offer budget-minded wine buyers a handy guide to low-priced wines for both everyday drinking and special occasions. Organized by country, the book lists more than 1,500 quality wine producers, as well as abbreviated tasting notes for more than 3,000 of the best value wines. Chapters include an overview of each country's wine-producing regions, highlight up-and-coming or underappreciated regions, and detail when wines can be consumed. Also featuring a vintage guide and lists such as "the best of the best," Parker's Wine Bargains is an accessible guide from the expert the New York Times deems "the critic who matters most." |
Item Specifications...
Pages 497
Dimensions: Length: 1.25" Width: 4.25" Height: 8.5"
Weight: 1 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Nov 3, 2009
Publisher Simon & Schuster
ISBN 1439101906
EAN 9781439101902
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 | Good pocket guide to worthwhile inexpensive wines Jan 11, 2010 |
Parker started off in wine reviewing with an eye toward consumer value. He exposed wines that were well-known but ultimately inferior products and championed other wines that were excellent but obscure. Since then his ratings have been much argued over and his influence has been both decried and heralded. Well, whatever.
This is a book built on his original reputation, showing us wines that were good whether we had heard of them before or not. With a price cutoff of $25, this is not as "low priced" as some of the other wine bargain books out there, but I think the book is an excellent resource for wines that are both excellent on a budget and really good wines that happen to be inexpensive (often because no one had heard of them before). Parker tastes a lot of wines and has strong opinions on them, and both of those attributes help this book.
I would also note that the price ranges listed (and the $25 limit on wines for the book) represent some sort of nominal industry pricing and in my experience many of the wines are available at retail for randomly lower prices. And take the price of this ephemeral book as a small cost of avoiding a dodgy bottle of wine. (Note that the Parker tasting scores do NOT appear in this book. Just recommended wines, approximate prices, and some text about the wine.) | | |  | Good book but Kindle version lacks Dec 29, 2009 |
| Table of Contents is greyed out - so you can't go to a specific part of the book. You can still do a search, but I like to browse the Table of Contents. A bit difficult to use this way. The actual book is good, though. Please consider adding the ToC. Thanks! | | | Write your own review about Parker's Wine Bargains: The World's Best Wine Values Under $25
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