Wine Snobbery: An Insider's Guide to the Booze Business by Andrew Barr

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  • ISBN 10 0571152120
  • ISBN 13 9780571152124
  • Published Nov 07 1988
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 304
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Faber & Faber
  • Imprint Faber and Faber

Publishers Text

This expose of the wine industry aims to provide wine drinkers with a guideline to getting the best value for money. Specific wines are highlighted to illustrate both the best tastes available at reasonable prices and the absurdity of paying high prices for inferior products. The author sets out to demonstrate that wine bars and restaurants put people off wine, that wine tastings are worthless, that it is wrong to equate age with quality and that wine merchants are often woefully ignorant of their merchandise. The book discusses the adulteration of wine and reveals how drinks producers persuade the public to pay money not for taste, but for image. Wine expert Andrew Barr is a regular contributor on drinks topics to "Vogue", "Wine" and "Decanter" magazines.

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