Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) [Paperback]

Andrea Immer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone | Publication Date: September 16, 2003

The Ultimate Buying Guide to America’s Most Popular and Accessible Wines

The first guide to buying wine that grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels. Andrea Immer, one of America’s foremost wine authorities, surveyed thousands of wine professionals and ordinary consumers, who assess what really matters most–taste and value for the money. She also provides:

•Best-of lists: The top performing wines

•Immer Best Bets: Andrea Immer’s top picks for every major buying dilemma, from inexpensive crowd pleasers to blue-chip choices for business entertaining

•“The Top Fifty Wines You’re Not Drinking”: These wines are less well known, but offer good availability and great value

•Immersion Course: Quick and easy label-reading lessons to give you instant buying expertise

•Kitchen Countertop (and Fridge) Survivor™ grades: How long will the wine keep after it’s opened? Now you’ll know the wines’ “freshness window” after opening.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Author of the hugely popular Great Wine Made Simple and a wine and spirits column for Esquire, Immer scores another hit with this annual update of her wine buying guide. The author, who serves as the Dean of Wine Studies at the French Culinary Institute and is an accredited Master Sommelier, made her name by combining extensive wine knowledge with a friendly, consumer-oriented attitude. In this book, she puts both skills to use to answer the two most common wine questions: "What are the good, cheap wines? And which wines are really worth the splurge?" The 600 individual wine entries-200 of which are new-focus on wines that are readily available in stores and restaurants and provide practical information about how long the wine is likely to survive after opening. A wine that tastes better after being open for 2-3 days, for example, gets a B+. Immer also provides numeric rankings for wines by taste and value, and leaves space for wine-lovers to make their own tasting notes. (Several of the selections were suggested by online reviewers through Immer's Web site.) The book also contains 20 pages of best-of lists, sorted by grape, taste, value and popularity. Her overall advice for 2004? Drink up the Shiraz, the Pinot Grigio and the Riesling!
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Review

“Succinct and accessible . . . Buy a handful of these books and pass them around. You’ll never be afraid to go to the corner store again.”—BookPage

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55,000 copies sold of the first edition in its first six months

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (September 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767915445
• ISBN-13: 978-0767915441
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 3.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,518,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Wine Book....for "Everyman", November 13, 2003

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Charles W. Clowdis "Voracious Opinionist" (Eagle's Point,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

Andrea Immer is just superb! This book is invaluable to the everyday wine drinker. It offers sound, believable adv ice and great information. Ms. Immer is pushing the Snobs like Bob Parker and Andy Blue into the sections of the wine world where they belong, that have so long intimidated "everyman" by making wine seem so mysterious and elitest. I heartily recommend this book and also Ms. Immer's "Great WInes Made Simple" and Great Tastes Made Simple" My wife also loves the writing style and excellent suggestions in the "Great" books. We look forward to reading more from this fine young author.

1.0 out of 5 stars I'd go for..., December 10, 2003

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This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

...Leslie Sbrocco's book "Wine for Women" instead. You could better relate to it.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guide for Every Man, February 13, 2005

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RealRoman "Lover of Life" (Crestwood, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed this guide as it walked me through the basics of wine as well as providing valuable insight on future purchases. I will probably buy each new yearly edition of this guide.