Chart your course through the world of wine! Learn to taste and rate wines with this guided journal. Includes a wine aroma wheel, prompts for tasting notes and details about vintage, price, producer, region, country, variety, when and where tasted, appearance, nose, taste, finish, and overall impression. By wine writer Doug Paulding. 192 pages. 4-1/4" wide x 5-3/4" high (10.8 cm wide x 14.6 cm high). Durable hardcover. Elastic band closure. Ribbon bookmark.

In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature—was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.

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This classy journal offers space to record and remember your favorite wines, memorable meals you've had with wine, vineyards you've visited, and wines you've heard about and would like to try. You'll also find key wine terms and wine resources. Whether you are a wine connoisseur or just enjoy the occasional glass, let The Wine Lover's Journal be your road map for a long, happy journey with plenty of interesting and delicious side trips.

For true oenophiles, there is discipline, devotion, and strict traditions to follow. For the general population, oenophilia is simply "the love of wine". By nature, wine lovers are collectors: bottles, vintages, countries of origin, and more. Wine Lover's Devotional is a year-long collection of insight and eclectica for the passionate wine lover. Each day of the week is given a wine-themed category: Monday: The Language of Wine; Tuesday: Wine Grapes; Wednesday: Wine & Food; Thursday: Putting Wine in its Place (Wine Geography); Friday: People Make Wine, Wine Makes People; and Saturday + Sunday: Weekend Wine Adventure. Wine Lover's Devotional uses hundreds of years of tradition, tasting notes, recipes, colorful trivia, and intriguing histories to inspire the oenophile in all of us.

Fine tune your wine sense and record observations and ratings of wine you have tasted.