Wine Quality: Tasting and Selection provides a concise, easy to use and clearly presented understanding of the techniques of wine tasting, quality assessment and evaluation.

The reader is taken through the various stages of a structured and professional approach to tasting and the book examines the questions as to what constitutes quality in wines, how quality can be recognized and how it is achieved.

Also discussed are the faults that can destroy wines at any quality level, and misconceptions as to quality and guarantees.

Clearly presented and easily readable the book includes:

• Diagrams
• Tables
• Tasting Vocabularies
• Color Plates

Contents

1. Wine Tasting
2. Appearance
3. Nose
4. Palate
5. Tasting Conclusions
6. Wine Faults and Flaws
7. Quality – Assurances and Guarantees?
8. Quality – The Natural Factors and a Sense of Place
9. Constraints upon Quality Wine Production
10. Production of Quality Wines
11. Selection by Buyers

Index

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