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The Wines of France: The Essential Guide for Savvy Shoppers
enlarge	Author: Jacqueline Friedrich Publisher: Ten Speed Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$19.95~~ Buy New: $4.82 You Save: $15.13 (76%) New (20) Used (8) from $4.79 Avg. Customer Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 347072 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 384 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.9 ISBN: 1580086888 Dewey Decimal Number: 641.220944 EAN: 9781580086882 ASIN: 1580086888 Publication Date: October 15, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new! Standard shipping takes 5-14 business days for delivery. Items ordered with expedited shipping will arrive within 2-5 business days. We encourage you to contact us if you have any questions.

Editorial Reviews: Book Description An unintimidating guide to Frances best and best-value wines, hot new winemakers, and up-and-coming wine regions, from one of the worlds premiere authorities on the subject. Comprehensive yet accessible listings of the top producers within each of Frances 10 wine regions, including star ratings, price ranges, vintage information, producer contact details, and crib sheets, plus a glossary, index, and one-page crash course on ordering wine in French. Compact size makes this book your ideal personal shopper, whether browsing wine shops, perusing restaurant wine lists, or traveling the wine routes of France. Friedrichs "A Wine and Food Guide to the Loire" won Veuve Clicquot, James Beard, and Julia Child awards.

Customer Reviews: Wines of France: Guide for Savvy Shoppers February 18, 2008 Since I love French wines it's great to have a source that reviews the wines I have bought and want to buy. It also makes it easier to take information to my favorite wine store to show them what I want. The guide-hater's guide to wine December 20, 2006 8 out of 8 found this review helpful Normally I don't even pay attention to the wine guide genre--they're outdated almost immediately and are characterized by "points" which are almost always awarded in the highest quantity to the usual suspects. Luckily I happened to open a copy of this one, probably because the author's book on Loire Valley wines is so invaluable. This is the guide I've always wanted. The focus is on winemakers, not vintages, and Ms. Friedrich has definite tastes and preferences which (importantly) coincide with mine. She happens to know a lot more than I do, however, and has a knack for ferreting out the unusual and succinctly characterizing a winemaker and his wines in a few pithy sentences. Her emphasis on terroir-driven and naturally made wines has major appeal for me. Many of these wines, while not household names, are available in the U.S. (alas, not all) so you don't have to be planning a trip to France to benefit from this book. One to get and another to give November 25, 2006 5 out of 6 found this review helpful Whether you are a debutante at choosing wines or a serious collector, this book is just what you've been wishing someone would write! Jacqueline Friedrich is already well-known in the food and wine writing world but her latest book is not only a handy "pocket tool" of a wine guide, it makes you feel like you've been given the keys to the cellar. Wow, just leafing through it as I walked back from the mailbox, I was grinning at many of the cleverly described entries and the way it works, with crib sheets at the end of each region and the useful how-to-order-wine-in-a-restaurant appendix. Get one for yourself and one for each of your friends even if they may not be going to France any time soon - they'll be dreaming they were while opening a bottle of one of Jackie's recommended vintages.

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