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Recommended books on wine
- Andrea Immer Robinson's excellent teach-yourself course on wine
- The other great wine & food pairing book on the market
- One of the two best wine & food pairing books on the market
- Encylopedic reference tome on all regions and wines. Very educational.
- Well-written and very informative.
- A great compact reference book -- extremely helpful when trying to decipher wine labels in other languages.
- Easily digestible sections for each micro-region in the world. Fantastic maps
- The gold standard -- read this cover to cover and you'll know more than most wine shop employees
Great wine shops
- Vintage Wine Merchants
More than a destination shop -- you can easily spend the whole day talking with Alex, Joe, Mike, Harry and the gang and learning a ton about fine wine. Santana Row wouldn't be nearly as much fun without their shop! - K&L Wine Merchants
Great selection and newsletter. One of the best-designed wine websites around. - The Wine Club
Some real hard to find gems, good futures prices and a great newsletter. - Joseph George Wines
Think about it -- how many wine shops do you know that are 3rd generation family-owned, provide you the owner's name and phone number on their website (and invite you to call for assistance in selecting wines), and are only open noon-5pm Monday through Friday ...! A sign of how well the shop is doing. - Vin, Vino, Wine Bottle Shop & Tasting Bar
Tucked away on California Ave. in Palo Alto, this is truly a shop for the connoisseur -- not as comprehensive as some of the bigger shops, but they more than make up for it with deep collections of exceptional red and white Burgundies. Their newsletter is required reading each month.
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Other fun things I read
Wine books I'm reading
Karen MacNeil: The Wine Bible
The gold standard -- read this cover to cover and you'll know more than most wine shop employees.
Hugh Johnson: The World Atlas of Wine
Easily digestible sections for each micro-region in the world. Fantastic maps.
Ron Herbst: The New Wine Lover's Companion
A great compact reference book -- extremely helpful when trying to decipher wine labels in other languages.
Jancis Robinson: Jancis Robinson's Wine Course: A Guide to the World of Wine
Well-written and informative.
Robert M. Parker: Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide 6th Edition : The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More Than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions
Encylopedic reference tome on all regions and wines. Very educational.
