Wine Tasting Notebook
Wine Tasting Notebook book cover

Wine Tasting Notebook

Hardcover – April 18, 2011

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Price
$14.95
Format
Hardcover
Pages
240
Publisher
De Long Company
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1936880027
Dimensions
3.75 x 0.75 x 8 inches

Description

About the Author Steve De Long is co-author of the critically acclaimed De Long s Wine Grape Varietal Table and founder of the WINE CENTURY CLUB, which have been featured in the Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News . A trained architect turned wine professional, he advocates adventurous wine drinking. He lives in London with his family.

Features & Highlights

  • A COMPLETE WINE TASTING COURSE disguised as a notebook. Have you ever wanted to learn about wine but didn t know how to start? Are you an intermediate taster that needs a quick refresher course? Are you an advanced taster who wants a systematic way to take notes? This second edition of De Long s bestselling
  • Wine Tasting Notebook
  • is an excellent way for all levels of wine lovers to hone their tasting skills. Its simple, understandable explanations demystify wine tasting, and guide you through the note taking process. You learn by doing. Why take tasting notes? It s not just to remember the wines that you liked (which is important!), but is simply the only practical way to develop your wine knowledge. The main difference between a beginner and a wine professional is in the number of wines that they have tried and noted. The Wine Tasting Notebook is organized in three simple parts: 1. The WINE NOTE PAGES puts the repetitive parts of a note in convenient multiple choice for pros as well as acting as training wheels for beginners. 2. WINE TASTING TERMS helps build your wine tasting vocabulary with quick explanations of where certain flavors come from. Includes practical details on identifying wine faults. 3. HOW TO TAKE A TASTING NOTE walks you through the fundamentals of wine tasting in just 5 to 10 minutes. The elegant black cover with gold embossing slips easily into a coat pocket or purse. The sewn binding lays flat for comfortable writing. The water (and wine!) resistant wine tasting guide including WINE TASTING TERMS and HOW TO TAKE A WINE NOTE stores inside back cover. A handy vintage chart is included in the front cover. It s the smart, simple and stylish way to
  • hit the ground running
  • and learn about wine.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Useless, but cheap

It was only ten dollars, so I don't mind throwing this out. Well, not much anyway. I will look for something else to record my notes. Main problems with this notebook are: the pages are so small that there is really no room to write anything, and worse than this, the printed text that takes up much of the page is so faint and small that it is difficult to read. If your principal desired feature is that the notebook be small, you might like this, because small was obviously the principal design objective. I'm not impressed.
4 people found this helpful
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Overall it is laid out well and would be great for anyone who wants to keep a thorough log ...

The area given to record the wine, producer, grape varietal etc. is very small. It is extremely difficult to write small enough to fit in any information and then be able to read your own writing. Overall it is laid out well and would be great for anyone who wants to keep a thorough log of the wines tasted especially if more room was given. I should have guessed about this flaw by the overall size of the book. I am disappointed I will not be able to use it myself.
3 people found this helpful
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Great little book

I love the pull out guide in the back!
It's nice to have a list of common varietal aromas when smelling... sometimes you know what you're smelling and can't think
of what it is EXACTLY!

Love the book :)
Easy to follow, easy to look back on, and easy to remember the experience.
Recommended
3 people found this helpful
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Excellent!

You should take it everywhere if you have professional tastings or practice during your parties with friends. Very nice to touch, easy to carry with, easy to understand and it helps to learn by heart the rules of right tasting.
3 people found this helpful
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taste notes

Excellent approach to taste notes in a simple and very comprehensive way, Plus the aroma guide that definitely is a must have.
3 people found this helpful
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Nice stocking stuffer

This makes a nice little stocking stuffer, so I'm happy with the purchase. The only problem is the name of the product, "Wine Tasting Notebook." I tried it and it tastes nothing like wine at all.
1 people found this helpful
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Making Memories

Excellent journal. Each page allows one to completely asses a wine. Small and compact, it is easy to bring along to a tasting. The fold up insert, which outlines aroma families and individual aromas is helpful in identifying aromas during a tasting. A must have if one is into wine and enjoys making tasting notes.
1 people found this helpful
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Disappointed...a little

I was disappointed in the book however I gave one to a relative and she loved it. I would have liked a bit more space to add a sketch of the label/logo.
1 people found this helpful
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Better than expected

Perfect! Also , it has included a explanation of how to identify the different flavours while tasting wine
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Best wine tasting logbook we've come across

Best wine tasting logbook we've come across. Wife and I use it on all our tasting trips and wine parties. I think we're up to our 4th or 5th book now. By using the book, I can definitely say that we've gotten better at focusing and identifying characteristics of wine.

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