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The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines in Brown-Bag Blind Tastings
enlarge	Authors: Robin Goldstein, Alexis Herschkowitsch Publisher: Fearless Critic Media Category: Book List Price: ~~$14.95~~ Buy New: $9.00 You Save: $5.95 (40%) New (25) Used (2) from $9.00 Avg. Customer Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 4897 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 208 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1.1 ISBN: 0974014354 Dewey Decimal Number: 641.22 EAN: 9780974014357 ASIN: 0974014354 Publication Date: May 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new Book. Your order will be processed and shipped within 24 hrs. (Seller Reference: B#23N)

Editorial Reviews: Product Description 6,000 glasses of evidence that will change the way you buy wine: Hide the label...and the truth comes out. Acclaimed Fearless Critic Robin Goldstein has gone around the country serving 6,000 glasses of wine from brown paper bags to experts and everyday wine drinkers around America. Here, in print for the first time, are the shocking results, including full-page reviews of the 100 wines that beat $50 to $150 bottles in the blind tastings.

Customer Reviews: If Truth Be Told June 29, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful The strongest aspect of this book is its wry, irreverent destruction of the myths propagated by the self-appoInted oenologists of the world. I was personally gratified to discover on their list as under five dollars a favorite in our household, Crane Lake Sauvignon Blanc, for which I was once charged eighteen dollars in a restaurant - an extravagant markup typical in the States and made issue of in the text. Like many in this world, I am sure, I am also grateful to be able now to ask for a bottle of Freixenet with absolute certainty as to its pronunciation, as well as with knowledge of the difference brut and extra dry. All in all The Wine Trials makes buying wine, especially when it is to be served to guests, both reassuring and more fun. Excellent Buying Guide For The Average Wine Drinker June 22, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful If you have ever walked into a grocery or liquor store to buy a bottle of wine and felt completely at a loss as to what's worth trying and what's not this is the book for you. Pros: Large selection of wines under $15.00 taste-tested by over 500 volunteers. There is a section which ranks the taste-tested wines within each wine category and another alphabetical section which assigns a one-page review for each taste-tested wine. If you are into it, there are several sections on the background of and process used for the taste-testing. Cons: The book is too big to slip in your pocket and use unobtrusively when actually shopping for wine. An included tear-sheet or separate quick-guide listing the wines ranked within each category would be helpful. The Wine Trials June 14, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful This book is a lot of fun, giving opportunities to get family and friends together and do your own wine tastings. I found many wines served in good restaurants in this book. See The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines in Brown-Bag Blind Tastings Delivers on its Promise May 21, 2008 8 out of 11 found this review helpful I first read about this book from Eric Asimov, wine writer for the New York Times, in his "The Pour" blog. Mr. Asimov had mixed feelings about the book before even reviewing it. Seeing as the fundamental theory of the book runs fully in the face of the current wine establishment (that more expensive wine = better wine), the authors set out to objectively prove that widely available wines can be both inexpensive and very enjoyable, in a full range of styles (Old Word Heavy Reds, New World Light Whites, etc.). You can read a fuller review of this great and thought-provoking book on my food and wine blog, [...]

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