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  • Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised, Updated

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Epicure, Oct. 16, 2018)
    “When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best.” —Wall Street Journal With more than three million copies sold, this perennial bestseller by James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kevin Zraly is the definitive guide to understanding and appreciating wine. Kevin Zraly, America’s ultimate wine educator, demystifies every aspect of choosing, tasting, and enjoying wine. From the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the trail-blazing whites of Washington State and New Zealand, this essential volume features maps of each region, lush photographs, a wealth of infographics, best value bottles for each country, hundreds of labels to help you find the right wines, and guided tastings. It also includes the latest vintages to savor, comprehensive notes on food pairings, and answers to frequently asked questions. This revised and expanded edition features new classes on South America, Australia, and New Zealand, sparkling wine, and fortified wine as well as information on cutting-edge trends (rosé, Prosecco) and emerging wine regions, including Sicily and China. The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course gives you all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the best wines for you.
  • Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised, Updated

    Kevin Zraly

    eBook (Sterling Epicure, Oct. 29, 2018)
    “When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best.” —Wall Street Journal With more than three million copies sold, this perennial bestseller by James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kevin Zraly is the definitive guide to understanding and appreciating wine. Kevin Zraly, America’s ultimate wine educator, demystifies every aspect of choosing, tasting, and enjoying wine. From the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the trail-blazing whites of Washington State and New Zealand, this essential volume features maps of each region, lush photographs, a wealth of infographics, best value bottles for each country, hundreds of labels to help you find the right wines, and guided tastings. It also includes the latest vintages to savor, comprehensive notes on food pairings, and answers to frequently asked questions. This revised and expanded edition features new classes on South America, Australia, and New Zealand, sparkling wine, and fortified wine as well as information on cutting-edge trends (rosé, Prosecco) and emerging wine regions, including Sicily and China. The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course gives you all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the best wines for you.
  • Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised and Expanded Edition

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Epicure, Sept. 13, 2016)
    With more than three million copies sold, this perennial bestseller by James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kevin Zraly is the most popular wine guide on the market. “When it comes to beginners’ wine guides, Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is one of the perennial best.” —Wall Street Journal In the clear, engaging style that has made this comprehensive book a national and international favorite for more than three decades, Kevin Zraly—America's ultimate wine educator and the creator of the Windows on the World Wine School—demystifies every aspect of wine: from grape varieties and their flavors, different types and styles of wines, and how they’re produced, to the latest winemaking developments, how to read a wine label, and the physiology of smell and taste. Covering the world of wine from the renowned reds of Bordeaux and California to the cutting-edge whites of Washington State and New Zealand, this essential volume features lush new photographs, a wealth of enlightening infographics, clear maps of each region, guided tastings, the best 500 wines in the world under $30, and hundreds of labels to help you identify wines worth tasting. Completing this must-have guide are notes on food pairings, frequently asked questions, a directory of resources, and a glossary of select terms. This newly revised and expanded 2017 edition introduces a fresh new interior design, the latest vintages to savor, and much more for beginners and experts alike. The Windows on the World Complete Wine Course will give you all the tools you need to discover and enjoy the perfect wines for you.
  • Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 30th Anniversary Edition

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Epicure, Oct. 14, 2014)
    "Kevin Zraly is the finest wine educator I have known.” —Robert Parker No one matches Kevin Zraly for teaching the novice or giving experts the most current information about wine. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Zraly's definitive work, the world's bestselling guide to wine receives a complete update. As always, Zraly deftly takes the mystery out of wine, recommending hundreds of new wines (all under $30!) and providing the latest information on vintage wines. But this thoroughly redesigned edition also presents a beautiful tribute to the renowned restaurant, Windows on the World, where Zraly's course began in 1976 and continued until September 11, 2001. Thanks to user-friendly smartphone tags throughout, there are videos to enlighten key points and audio guides to help you correctly pronounce 1,300 wine names and terms.
  • Windows on the World: Complete Wine Course

    Kevin Zraly

    Paperback (Dell, Oct. 1, 1989)
    Describes the leading wine-making regions and explains how to create a restaurant's wine list and offers advice on wine tasting and selection
  • Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling, Sept. 29, 2009)
    Let’s pop a cork and drink a toast to America’s very best, most popular wine course! Windows on the World Complete Wine Course is celebrating its silver anniversary, and this classic volume now has new, updated material that wine lovers will savor.For this new edition, Kevin traveled to eighty wine regions in twenty countries, tasting more than 4,000 wines and meeting 500 winemaking professionals. To assure that he had all the latest wine-producing news, he recently visited vineyards in Austria, Hungary, Greece, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina. Plus, he has updated Wine-Buying Strategies, best vintages, wine lists, and labels. As always, the book includes Wine Basics, Tasting Wine, Matching Wine and Food, Frequently Asked Questions About Wine, and a Selected Glossary. Zraly goes region-by-region, with the wines organized from simple to complex. By following Kevin’s order, readers will experience the best wines and a wide diversity of tastes, styles, regions, and countries.It’s not only a comprehensive and bargain-priced hands-on wine education, and a superb catalog from which to start a wine cellar or find the right bottle, it’s also an inexpensive way to get the knowledge Kevin imparts in his outstanding course. This is clearly the wine guide against which all others are judged.
  • Windows on the World: Complete Wine Course

    Kevin Zraly

    Unknown Binding (Sterling, Oct. 31, 2008)
    Beautiful book, used and good condition.
  • Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

    Kevin Zraly

    Paperback (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, March 15, 1987)
    used book
  • Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Pub Co Inc, Aug. 15, 1996)
    Is it necessary to pay a tremendous amount of money to get a great-tasting red Bordeaux wine? What foods best compliment a fine Chardonney? When is champagne ready to drink? How do you choose a good California wine? Universally praised by wine experts and novices alike, this unbeatable "course" will answer all your questions and help you to become a wine connoisseur. Kevin Zraly makes the study of wine as pleasurable as drinking a fine vintage. In a completely fresh approach to the subject, Zraly offers a look at the trends in wine over the last 10 years. He takes you on a country-by-country, region-by-region, "best-buy" ratings tour of the latest vintages. You'll love his light-hearted style, and you'll appreciate his glossary of wine terms, his award-winning restaurant wine lists, and his helpful and informative tips on stocking and serving wine at home, ordering it in restaurants (including the hows and whys of the tasting ritual), and much more. Elegent two-color printing and dozens of illustrations, ranging from labels you should know to memorable New Yorker cartoons, complement the Zraly style. Whether you prefer a vintage that's bright, earthy, mature, rich, light, or seductive, take a uniquely intoxicating trek through the world of wine that will turn you into an enthusiastic expert in no time!
  • Windows on the World Complete Wine Course

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 15, 1999)
    Is it necessary to pay a high price to get great-tasting Bordeaux? What foods best complement a fine Chardonnay? When is champagne ready to drink? How do you choose a good California wine? America's best-selling book on wine returns with updated recommendations, new sections, and Kevin Zraly's irreverent approach to the subject. Universally praised by wine experts and novices alike, this unbeatable course will answer all your questions and help you to become a wine connoisseur. Take a country-by-country, region-by-region "best-buy" ratings tour of the latest vintages. You'll love Zraly's lighthearted style, and you'll appreciate his glossary of wine terms, his award-winning restaurant wine lists, and his helpful and informative tips on stocking and serving wine at home, ordering it in restaurants (including the hows and whys of the "tasting ritual"), and much more. Elegant two-color printing and dozens of illustrations, ranging from labels you should know to memorable New Yorker cartoons, complement Zraly's witty commentary. Whether your prefer a vintage that's bright, earthy, mature, rich, light, or seductive, take a uniquely intoxicating trek through the world of wine that will turn you into an enthusiastic expert in no time!
  • Windows on the World complete wine course

    Kevin Zraly

    Hardcover (Sterling Pub. Co, March 15, 1985)
    Hardcover edition. b&w photos, reproductions of wine labels, cartoons, charts, informative tables.
  • Kevin Zraly Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: Revised and Expanded Edition by Kevin Zraly

    Kevin Zraly

    Unknown Binding (Sterling Epicure, March 15, 1768)
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