Wine: The Essential Guide to Tasting, History, Culture and More

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Wine is sunlight, held together by water. Galileo Galilei No other beverage has created the excitement and emotion that wine has over its vast history. It fills our mouths with flavour and our hearts with joy. It s also a subject whose complexities can be baffling and mysterious to the uninitiated but wine expert Caro Feely is here to unveil all the secrets of this most marvellous drink. Packed with engaging anecdotes, fascinating history and a wealth of information on the world of wine, this miscellany is perfect for any wine fan, from the expert to the casual drinker. So let s raise a glass to the red, the white and the rose!

Caro Feely worked as a project manager and IT strategy consultant in South Africa and Ireland before trading it all in to pursue her dreams. She now runs a successful organic wine estate with wine school and gite rental business in the Dordogne Valley in France with her husband, Sean.

'A gem of a book' -- John Platter, Wine Critic