Reviews for Cellaring Wine: Managing Your Wine Collection...to Perfection

The average rating for Cellaring Wine: Managing Your Wine Collection...to Perfection based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-24 00:00:00 Yasuhiro Kamiya For me the technical part of building a cellar was unnecessary, but the rest of the book was informative and I know more about storing wine than I knew before. For what seems like a boring book it was worth reading. I want to try and cellar some wine now and I have the perfect room for it.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-01 00:00:00 Robin Crawford You could learn a lot from this book if you really used it as a coursebook. I just did some skimming and still picked up a few things. Relevant to me (a big Riesling fan) is some info on German wines: Tafelwein: "table wine", lowest designation of German wine Qualitatswein: "quality wine" can be QbA (from one of the 13 regions) or Praedikatswein (quality wine with distinction, the good stuff, no sugar added!) Praedikatswein breaks down further: Kabinett - light semi-dry wines Spatlese - "late picking" medium-style more body and intense flavor Auslese "out picked" ripe grapes selectively chosen, medium to fuller wine Beerenauslese - "berries out picking" grapes picked individually for rich desert wines Trockenbeerenauslese - from dried grapes comes rich, sweet honeylike (and expensive) wine Look for four top regions: Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Rheinhessen, Rhinegau, Pfalz Look for good years: 2001* 2002* 2003* 2004* 2005** 2006 2007 *exceptional **extraordinary vintage! I'm a long way from being a wine snob, but if that's your goal, this book would certainly help you.