look at:Richard Best is a contrarian. As "The Frugal Oenophile," Richard eschews designer wines and instead seeks out everyday values. In a field overrun with expensive coffee table books, his Lexicon of Wine Tasting Terms is compact, comprehensive, succinct, and sells for under $10.
Richard promotes wine education in all his work. His monthly email
newsletter digs deeply into important wine topics, covering such issues as wine additives, “U-vint” shops, and planning your wine cellar capacity. Both his newsletter and email Wine of the Week
ed. note - I find this to be one of the most useful wine books I have purchased. It is well worth the price, which is modest for the information contained. It does not attempt to cover everything in the world of wine, but does a good job of explaining wine terms. It is useful to the wine nerd like myself, and is equally useful if not indispensible to the person really looking to start learning about wine... now if only he'd run across the term "Bodacious" and had an explanation for it...
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