{"title":"Guides To Grape Varieties S","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore our 'Guides to Grape Varieties S' collection and deepen your wine knowledge. From Sauvignon Blanc to Syrah, discover the nuances of each grape and enhance your tasting experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chardonnay-book-tim-atkin-9780670825158","title":"Chardonnay","description":"The most unique factor in determining the taste of a wine is the grape variety from which it is made. This series looks at each of the major grape varieties and assesses wines made all over the world from that variety. The focus of the series is primarily on flavour and quality. Each volume includes background information on the grape variety and advice on the best way to buy, store and serve the wines from it. A gazetteer lists the main wines made from the variety in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, and elsewhere. A special feature of this series is the individual ratings given for quality, price and best recent vintages. Chardonnay is best known as the classic white grape variety of Burgundy, but in recent years it has also been much sought after by the winemakers of California. In Australia too, acres of vineyards are being grafted over to this grape. What explains Chardonnay's success? It is, the author argues, one of the most amenable and pliable of vines, easy to grow and also easy to mould into a variety of wine styles, using different techniques of fermentation and types of oak barrel. The originals of these styles are to be found in the grape's homeland Burgundy. Chablis still sets the standard for steely, elegant Chardonnay, oaked or unoaked; the Cote d'Or produces wines with a classic balance of richness and acidity, while easier-drinking styles are found in the Maconnais. But New World Chardonnays, especially the ripe, oaky examples from Australia, are becoming ever more popular, and the best from California, Italy and Spain are matching the French for refinement and subtlety. This volume provides a guide to the many different styles of Chardonnay, including those from sources as unlikely and diverse as Holland, China and Mexico.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578691133713,"sku":"GOR001130512","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0670825158.jpg?v=1750912374"},{"product_id":"pinot-noir-book-andrew-barr-9780670825141","title":"Pinot Noir","description":"The most important factor in determining the taste of a wine is the grape variety from which it is made. This series looks at each of the major grape varieties and assesses wines made all over the world from that variety. The focus of the series is primarily on flavour and quality. Each volume includes background information on the grape variety and advice on the best way to buy, store and serve the wines made from it. A gazetteer lists the main wines made from the variety in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand. A special feature of this series is the individual ratings given for quality, price and best recent vintages. Pinot noir has earned the reputation of being the world's most difficult, temperamental and controversial grape variety. Perhaps that is appropriate for a vine that originated in Burgundy, the world's most complicated wine region. Red burgundy is thought of as a rich, full-bodied wine, but, as the author reveals, a debate rages in the region over the true character of pinot noir, as some maintain that it naturally gives light-coloured wines. What are not in doubt are the voluptuous scent and velvety body of great red burgundy. The emulation of Burgundy's great wines has become the Holy Grail of winemakers in the New World. Many have tried, but few have fully succeeded. 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This series looks at each of the major grape varieties and assesses wines made all over the world from that variety. The focus of the series is primarily on flavour and quality. Each volume includes background information on the grape variety and advice on the best way to buy, store and serve the wines from it. A gazetteer lists the main wines made from the variety in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, and elsewhere. A special feature of this series is the individual ratings given for quality, price and best recent vintages. Syrah is nothing like so well known a grape variety as Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinto Noir, yet there is no doubt that it makes some of the world's greatest red wines. The aristocrats of the northern Rhone such as Hermitage, Cote Rotie and Cornas, which are made almost entirely from Syrah, have suffered ups and downs in reputation. Now they are very much back in fashion. Ten years ago, few would have believed that a single-vineyard Cote Rotie would sell for more than Chateau Petrus. These days the best producers of Hermitage, Cornas and Cote Rotie could sell their limited production, even at the current extortionate prices, many times over. Syrah is known as Shiraz in Australia, and in the hot Barossa and Hunter Valleys it makes massively rich, ripe, long-lasting wines which are arguably as great as their more refined Rhone relations. We will surely be seeing a worldwide Syrah boom in the next decade. The other two grapes dealt with in this volume are not generally considered among the world's elite. But much-despised Grenache is responsible for 80% of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, now being appreciated as one the great French wines, as well as delicious, unpretentious reds, roses and fortified wines from France, Spain and Sardinia. Mourvedre, the star of Bandol in the south of France, is fast becoming the most fashionable grape variety of all, especially since its discovery by the Rhone Rangers of California. Giles MacDonogh provides up-to-the-minute information on its strides forward in the New World, as well as the best producers worldwide of all three grape varieties.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630812766481,"sku":"GOR001530753","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896250245393,"sku":"CIN0670825883G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50410751328529,"sku":"CIN0670825883VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50453838266641,"sku":"GOR005787754","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0670825883.jpg?v=1751136408"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/guides-to-grape-varieties-s-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}