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| Introduction | 1 | |
| How to Use This Guide | 1 | |
| Organization | 1 | |
| Viticultural Areas Covered | 1 | |
| Rating the Producers and Growers | 2 | |
| Vintage Summaries | 2 | |
| Tasting Notes and Ratings | 3 | |
| Quoted Prices | 4 | |
| Wine Price Guide Codes | 5 | |
| The Role of a Wine Critic | 5 | |
| About Wine | 7 | |
| How to Buy Wine | 7 | |
| How to Store Wine | 8 | |
| The Question of How Much Aging | 9 | |
| How to Serve Wine | 12 | |
| Food and Wine Matchups | 14 | |
| What's Been Added to Your Wine? | 17 | |
| Organic Wines | 18 | |
| The Dark Side of Wine | 18 | |
| The Growing International Standardization of Wine Styles | 18 | |
| Destroying the Joy of Wine by Excessive Acidification, Overzealous Fining, and Abrasive Filtration | 18 | |
| The Inflated Wine Pricing of Restaurants | 21 | |
| Collectors versus Consumers | 21 | |
| Unspeakable Practices | 23 | |
| Wine Producers' Greed | 24 | |
| Wine Writers' Ethics and Competence | 25 | |
| In Vino Veritas? | 26 | |
| Safety Guidelines | 27 | |
| What Constitutes a Great Wine? | 29 | |
| Making Sense of Terroir | 33 | |
| Recommended Reading | 35 | |
| The Wine World's Biggest Lies | 38 | |
| A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Understanding the Language of the Wine-maker | 38 | |
| Wine on the Internet | 39 | |
| The Wines of Western Europe | 41 | |
| Chapter 1 | France | 43 |
| Alsace | 43 | |
| Bordeaux | 126 | |
| Burgundy and Beaujolais | 387 | |
| Champagne | 624 | |
| The Loire Valley | 632 | |
| The Languedoc-Roussillon | 645 | |
| Provence | 686 | |
| The Rhone Valley | 693 | |
| Bergerac and the Southwest | 905 | |
| Chapter 2 | Italy | 909 |
| Piedmont | 909 | |
| Tuscany | 1023 | |
| Other Significant Red Wines of Italy | 1080 | |
| Chapter 3 | Germany and Austria | 1114 |
| Chapter 4 | Spain and Portugal | 1136 |
| The Wines of North America | 1177 | |
| Chapter 5 | California | 1179 |
| Chapter 6 | Oregon | 1452 |
| Chapter 7 | Washington State | 1478 |
| Chapter 8 | The Mid-Atlantic States | 1499 |
| The Best of the Rest | 1501 | |
| Chapter 9 | Australia and New Zealand | 1503 |
| Chapter 10 | Argentina and Chile | 1594 |
| Chapter 11 | South Africa | 1597 |
| Index | 1599 |
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Doug O'toole
reviewed Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition, The Complete Easy-To-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions on December 16, 2015
Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition, The Complete Easy-To-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions
This is a book packed with information, and an admirable amount of research appears to have gone into its production. For me, it rather fell between stools; it is too opinionated for a text book and not personal enough to be a 'good read'. Dates and statistics chase each other - useful things to know perhaps, but they are interspersed with some strong statements of opinion around history, colonialism and politics that I found dated in attitude and jarring.
I keep the book because I may find the material useful at some point - though as others have also pointed out, he considered not five plants but four: timber, wine, rubber, tobacco.
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