Wine Folly: The Essential Guide To Wine
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will help you make sense of it all in a unique infographic wine book. Designed by the creators of the Wine Folly website, which has won Wine Blogger of the Year from the International Wine & Spirits Competition, this book combines sleek, modern information design with data visualization and gives readers pragmatic answers to all their wine questions, including:
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine
The best introductory book on wine to come along in years" (The Washington Post) from the creators of the award-winning Wine Folly website Red or white? Cabernet or merlot? Light or bold? What to pair with food? Drinking great wine isn't hard, but finding great wine does require a deeper understanding of the fundamentals. Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will help you make sense of it all in a unique infographic wine book. Designed by the creators of the Wine Folly website, which has won Wine Blogger of the Year from the International Wine & Spirits Competition, this book combines sleek, modern information design with data visualization and gives readers pragmatic answers to all their wine questions, including: - Detailed taste profiles of popular and under-the-radar wines. - A guide to pairing food and wine. - A wine-region section with detailed maps. - Practical tips and tricks for serving wine. - Methods for tasting wine and identifying flavors. Packed with information and encouragement, Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will empower your decision-making with practical knowledge and give you confidence at the table.
The Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide is a useful reference guide best suited for wine beginners and wine enthusiasts who want to expand their palates and try new wines. For that demographic, this is the book to own. Industry professionals will find things to pick on, but this book can probably still teach them a thing or two about how to simplify wine information and communicate effectively to consumers.
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"There are books for wine experts and people going into the industry, and there's books for people who just want to clown around," Puckette says. She wanted to bridge the considerable gap between the two.
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine, which hit shelves yesterday, maintains the friendly tone and punchy graphics of the site that begot it. It opens with the absolute basics: how many glasses are in a bottle, what does 'dry' mean, what is ABV. It's unlikely to scare off true beginners, but there's plenty here for seasoned drinkers too. Puckette shares her tasting techniques, detailed notes on dozens of grape varietals, pairing suggestions, and region-by-region maps of the top 12 wine-producing countries in the world.
When I found out that Wine Folly was publishing a book, I was beyond excited. Finally, a user-friendly wine book that is intelligent and looks great too! Madeline and Justin use simple yet attention grabbing graphics to deliver facts and information in a palatable way. This book will not make you feel intimidated and you will come away with excellent knowledge on wine varieties, taste profiles, food and wine pairing charts and in-depth maps on major wine regions of the world.
Casey started Travelling Corkscrew in 2010 and has been wine blogging ever since. She has completed her WSET level 2 and 3 and is currently based in Tasmania, Australia. When she's not drinking wine and blogging, she runs an SEO & Google Ads company and hangs out with Mr Spittoon, her two kids and two furbabies.
We have all been faced with the issue of transporting wine from one place to another without breaking it. The thought of losing your precious wine due to not taking the time to pack it as safely as possible is an indescribable thought.
Recently one of my 2014 Wine Tasting Notes caused so much commotion across my social media channels that I thought I had better get my wine drinking butt into gear and do up a proper blog post for it so that all you lovely people can learn about and drink Smurf Wine too!!
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack. This delightful books describes the red and white wines we all enjoy by describing the profile, the dominant flavors, origin and where the grapes are grown, the styles and sweeetness levels. The guide to learning to taste wine and the basic characteristics of wine are very helpful. The Wine Regions of the world are described, clearly and concisely. Keep it at your bedside and on top of your wine refrigerator.
Wine Folly is also a website devoted to wine knowledge and appreciation with the mission to allow people to gain a deeper understanding of wine by exploring its many facets. Wine Folly first launched in 2011 in Seattle, Washington. It was created by Justin Hammack, Madeline Puckette, and Chad Wasser.
Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will help you make sense of it all in a unique infographic wine book. Designed by the creators of WineFolly.com, which has won Wine Blogger of the Year from the International Wine & Spirits Competition, this book combines sleek, moderninformation design with data visualization and gives readers pragmatic answers to all their wine questions, including:
Puckette is an American author, designer, sommelier, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the hugely successful blog Wine Folly, which delivers useful and accessible content about wine for beginners and experts alike through its educational infographics and engaging writing.
Last year, the guide was followed up with Wine Folly: Magnum Edition, The Master Guide: a redesigned second edition with more than double the content. The Wine Folly blog was also relaunched, with thousands of new pages of educational wine content alongside an extensive database of different wines and grape varieties.
The story of Wine Folly is an enviable one on how to create a successful career in the wine industry. It all began while Madeline Puckette was working with James Beard Award winning chef Jerry Traunfeld as a sommelier at his Seattle based restaurant, Poppy. Joining forces with two friends, Madeline began the blog Wine Folly with the goal to become the number one wine education site. What I absolutely admire about Madeline is that she figured out a way to combine her background in graphic design with her skills as a somm. Plus, she and her partner, Justin Hammack, were savvy enough to run the blog like a business. They created posters from her dazzling and easy to interpret wine infographics, then offered them for purchase on the web site. Eventually a book deal came along and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thankfully, all the wine varieties in the Magnum Edition are organized alphabetically without being primarily organized by style and body. This makes looking up wine varieties ever so much easier! No more referring to the index to find a wine. Information still appears for recommended glass type, serving temperature, average cost for quality, and cellaring ability. Now readers also receive information on common styles and suggested wines with a similar flavor profile.
Wine stoppers are essential for anyone who likes to have a glass of wine in the evening and save the rest for later. These wine stoppers are made from premium zinc alloy and food-grade silicone with a crystal ornament in the shape of a diamond.
Decanting wine can enhance the flavor of the wine through aeration, allowing the wine to breathe and softening the tannins in the wine. Decanters can also be used to help remove sediment from older wines.
This four-piece gift set features an electric wine opener, a foil cutter, a wine aerator and a vacuum stopper, which makes it a great starter set for your newbie wine friend or for anyone who could use an upgrade to their collection.
Not only does this book feature space for your friend to record systemic notes on their own wine tasting experience and hone their senses, it also offers actionable tips and explanations on how to taste wines like a sommelier.
An absolutely iconic book exploring more than 100 grapes and 101 wine-growing countries from the most famed regions to up-and-coming regions like Greece. Features in-depth notes on the flavors and properties of wines both famed and somewhat obscure. 041b061a72