With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror and Christmas fully upon us, it’s time to think about gifts. So I’m thinking about “Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine.”
Obviously, this isn’t a cookbook. It’s a wine book. But it’s a great one.
It’s fun.
It’s friendly.
It makes wine simple.
It’s clean and cool and modern-looking.
It’s a great reference, whether you’re new to wine or not.
And it’s loaded with generalizations. When it comes to wine, that’s a good thing because every rule has so many dang exceptions that—unless you’re studying to be a sommelier—doing otherwise is just confounding.
Long story short—immediately go out and buy it for yourself and everyone you know that’s even the slightest bit interested in wine.
“Wine Folly” has just three sections—fundamentals, a short, sweet primer; wine styles, which includes a full-spread infographic for each of 55 different wines, giving you a sense of what it tastes like, where it comes from, what it costs, etc; and wine regions, which maps the world’s major wine-producing areas, including growing areas and wine types.
It comes to us from the web site of the same name, where designer-turned-sommelier Madeline Puckette and business-and-IT-guy Justin Hammack awesomely address all things wine.
The Washington Post called “Wine Folly” “the best introductory book on wine to come along in years” adding that Puckette and Hammack “have built their winefolly.com website into a leading authority on wine for millennials, using modern graphic design to present savvy knowledge of wine in new ways.”
Yeah. The Washington Post.
If you’ve ever wondered what flavors to expect from Cabernet Sauvignon versus Merlot, or how the wines of Austria differ from those of Australia, “Wine Folly” is for you.
If you know those things, but sometimes want a simple reference because you don’t have the energy to lift your copy of “The Oxford Companion to Wine,” “Wine Folly” is for you.
If you simply like things that are fun, friendly, and that make complicated things less so, “Wine Folly” is for you.
It’ll definitely be under my tree.
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