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Educating Peter : how anybody can become an (almost) instant wine expert / Lettie Teague.

Teague, Lettie. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780743286787
  • ISBN: 0743286782
  • Physical Description: viii, 248 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Scribner trade paperback ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint. Originally published in 2007 under title: Educating Peter : how I taught a famous movie critic the difference between cabernet and merlot, or, how anybody can become an (almost) instant wine expert.
Formatted Contents Note:
How to taste -- Age and temperature -- The basic six grapes and beyond -- Peter's tasting vocabulary -- What makes a wine great? -- Bottle colors shapes and sizes -- How wine is made -- Winemaking -- Old world wine: France: Bordeaux ; Burgundy ; Alsace ; The Loire valley ; The Rhone valley ; Champagne ; Italy ; Spain ; Portugal ; Germany ; Austria ; Hungary -- New world wine: Argentina ; Australia ; New Zealand ;South Africa ; Chile ; New York State ; Oregon and Washington State ; California: Sonoma ; More that is not Napa ; Peter faces his fears, or Four days in Napa -- The Night the eagle landed -- Peter at large in the wine world, or Peter goes public: Peter at the Zachys wine auction -- Peter in a restaurant, or A guide to pairing wine with food -- Peter dines with the collector -- Peter goes shopping, or What to do in a wineshop -- Five favorite retail wine sources -- The final exam -- The final word: Peter -- How to hold a wine tasting: the director's cut.
Subject: Travers, Peter.
Wine tasting > Amateurs' manuals.
Wine and wine making > Amateurs' manuals.

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Educating Peter : Educating Peter
Educating Peter : Educating Peter
by Teague, Lettie
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Educating Peter : Educating Peter


Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than "Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?" -- great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina -- is "What is the best way to learn about wine?" After many years of fielding these questions, Lettie was determined to debunk the myth that learning about wine is hard. She decided to find just one wine idiot and teach him a few fundamentals -- how to order off a restaurant wine list without fear, approach a wine merchant with confidence, and perhaps even score a few points off a wine snob. Enter her neighbor, good friend and complete wine neophyte Peter Travers, Rolling Stone magazine's longtime film critic. Peter Travers proved the perfect Eliza Doolittle to Lettie's Professor Higgins. As a film critic he made bold pronouncements ("This movie stinks," which could be readily translated to "This Cabernet tastes like Merlot") and exhibited a finely tuned visual sense ("The cinematography could be improved" could easily become "This wine is too white"). But, most important, Peter knew almost nothing about wine. As Lettie begins their lessons, Peter puts down his ever-present glass of "fatty" Chardonnay and learns that there is a huge world out there full of all kinds of wine. He is taught to swirl his glass to release the wine's aromatic compounds -- or esters -- above the rim and vows, "I'm going to do that for Martin Scorsese next time I see him. I'll volatize my esters for him." Thus Lettie enlightens her wine-challenged but film-savvy friend about the Facts of Wine: how to hold a glass; the vocabulary of wine; how wine is made; how to read labels; how to tell the difference between grape varieties; how to make sense of vintages; how to glean information about a wine simply by looking at the shape and color of the bottle; and an overview of the great wine regions of the Old World and the New. Finally, after many fact-filled, hilarious lessons, Lettie takes Peter to the most famous American wine region of all, Napa Valley, where he hobnobs with wine and Hollywood royalty and finally puts his new skills to the test in the real world. Part buddy movie, part serious wine tutorial, Educating Peter is as much a treat for oenophiles in on the joke as it is for beginners who think Chablis is a brand name of wine.

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