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The Wine Snob's Dictionary : An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge - David Lynch
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The Wine Snob's Dictionary

An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

By: David Lynch, David Kamp

Paperback | 14 October 2008 | Edition Number 1

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A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy" Snob's Dictionary" series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z.
Wine Snob. The very phrase seems redundant, doesn't it? When faced with this snobbiest of snobberies, the civilian wine enthusiast needs the help of savvy translators like David Kamp and David Lynch. Their" Wine Snob's Dictionary" delivers witty explication of both old-school oeno-obsessions (What's claret? Who's Michael Broadbent?) and such new-wave terms as "malolactic fermentation" and "fruit bomb." Among the other things Kamp and Lynch demystify:
Finish: the Snob code-term for "aftertaste." (Robert Parker includes the stopwatch-measured length of a wine's finish in his ratings.)
Meritage: an American wine classification that rhymes with "heritage," and should NEVER be pronounced "meri-TAHJ."
Terroir: that elusive quality of vineyard soil that has sommeliers talking of "gunflint," "leather," and "candied fruits"
Featuring ripe, luscious, full-bodied illustrations by "Snob's Dictionary" stalwart Ross MacDonald, " The Wine Snob's Dictionary" is as heady and sparkling as a vintage Taittinger, only much less expensive... and much more giggle-inducing. Cheers

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