Wine on Tuesdays: Be a Serious Wine Drinker without Taking Wine Too Seriously

By Debra Gordon and Keith Gordon

Book Overview

"Wine on Tuesdays" focuses on the basics of wine so readers can feel comfortable buying, ordering, and drinking it, and on helping readers relax around wine and integrate it into everyday life. Americans have uncorked a new enthusiasm for wine. For the generations of Americans who want wine to be a regular part of their lives, "Wine on Tuesdays" eschews the esoteric language of oenology for practical guidance, humorously written from the perspective of wine lovers rather than wine pedants. "Wine on Tuesdays" doesn't focus on number ratings, "big names," or five different ways to describe the taste of a Cabernet. Instead, it guides wine novices and experts alike through the basics of enjoying wine-from developing a palate to understanding food pairings-so that a once-in-awhile indulgence becomes a regularly rewarding pursuit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401604188
• ISBN13: 9781401604189
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 4.8"

Customer Reviews

A Fun and Concise Way to Learn About Wine

Let me first disclose that the authors of "Wine on Tuesdays" are geographically distant cousins of mine who first told me about this book at a recent family event. Curious, I read it this weekend, then decided that it would be a disservice to its potential audience to not write a brief review... This book is perfect for someone (like me!) who loves to drink wine and wants to know a bit more about it, but has been overwhelmed by (and thus has retained just about nothing from) every other wine book he or she has read and wine course he or she has taken (and I've done both several times). It's written in a casual, fun style, and is concise enough that you don't need to edit through the "more than you really want to know stuff" in order to get to "the important stuff"; the authors here have done that editing for you, thus leaving you with a body of wine knowledge that's both easy to absorb and easy to remember. Look at it this way: With this book, for the cost of one moderately-priced bottle of vino that you'll p--s away the next morning and probably forget about shortly thereafter, you can have a reference base of knowledge that will last a lifetime.

Charming and fun read about wine

I thought this was such a fun, charming read. I loved the little stories about "wine pioneers" and other little anecdotes--they were wonderful little tidbits of information and made this book very approachable. But "Wine on Tuesdays" contains lots of solid information and common-sense advice, too. The weekend after I read the book, I was out for dinner, saw "Fume Blanc" on the wine list, and remembered from "Wine on Tuesdays" that Fume Blanc is basically Sauvignon Blanc--and knew that wasn't what we wanted to order. I also appreciated the breakdowns of wine recommendations into "everyday," "Friday night," and "high roller" categories. After all, sometimes you just want to celebrate making it through another week!