How to Drink a Glass of Wine

A glass of wine is the simplest of pleasures - an elixir of love, a soothing balm and a forger of friendships. Yet wine is also the product of good fruit gone bad, an edgy mosaic of smells, tastes and textures, and a huge and highly competitive international industry. In How to Drink a Glass of Wine , leading wine writer John Saker takes readers on a journey to learn about strange aromas, how the shape of glass can change the taste of wine, the odd history of many wine varieties, peculiar practices in wineries around the world, who decides if a wine is a winner, and other mysterious secrets of the wine industry.