Andrea Immer's 2005 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) [Paperback]

Andrea Immer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2004 | Series: Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone

Now in its third edition, the ultimate buying guide to America’s most popular and accessible wines

Completely updated with more than 200 new choices in a survey of more than 650 of the country’s top-selling wines, Andrea Immer’s buying guide is dedicated to the best-quality, most popular, and readily available wines found in stores and restaurants. In addition to giving the lowdown on taste and value, this compact resource is packed with unique features such as:

• Candid “from the trenches” comments from consumers and wine pros alike

• Results of “kitchen survivor tests,” revealing how every wine fares as a leftover

• Immersion Course: easy lessons in label reading and wine list decoding

• Immer’s Best Bets for solving every buying dilemma, from hip wines to impress a date to blue-chip choices for a client

• Listings of the year’s top-performing wines at every price level, from steal to splurge

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Immer (Great Wine Made Simple, etc.) dispenses more smart, friendly advice on buying wine in this latest installment of her popular series of guides. What’s new for 2005? The price of California wine is declining (thanks to a soft economy and a glut of grapes) and the two-buck Chuck is exploding into a national phenomenon, much to many wine aficionados’ dismay. For the democratic Immer, however, the news is all good. As she explains, "the closer wine gets to an everyday price (meaning somewhat comparable to beer), the more likely consumers are to treat it as an everyday beverage"—which is just what she’s always believed it should be anyway.
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From the Inside Flap

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (September 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767915453
• ISBN-13: 978-0767915458
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 3.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,104,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes sense of it all, December 4, 2004

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Karin Baker (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2005 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

This book succeeds in what it aspires to do: make wine-buying an unintimidating act. So many Americans think of wine as a special-occasion indulgence, and that it can't possibly be good if isn't expensive, as opposed to the more European attitude that a glass of wine (or two) is an everyday thing. Naturally, to have wine as a more everyday life- and food-enhancer, unless you're a multi-millionaire, you'll want to know about good wines in different price categories. Immer's non-snobbish approach led her to include an under-$12 category, for which I am grateful. (Who'd have thought a $7 Chardonnay from Vons Market, Lindeman's Bin 65 from Australia, could be this good?) In just a few skims, I already feel far more knowledgeable about wine than I did before. I've already tried some of her recommendations and have been very pleased. I've tended to stick to the same few wines due to disappointments when I've experimented (based more on label appeal than anything else!) but now I know of literally hundreds of wines that I'd like to try. The layout of this book is very user friendly and it's small and lightweight enough to bring on a shopping trip.

This is not a book for the connoisseur who loves hard-to-find wines but is geared toward the buyer of wines you'll find in many American restaurants and merchants such as grocery stores.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really Useful, November 21, 2004

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Virginia Allain "retired librarian" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2005 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

I'm impressed that this tells how long different wines will last after opening either at room temperature or in a refrigerator. That is something I haven't seen before.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference., April 12, 2006

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Cyn (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andrea Immer's 2005 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone (Andrea Robinson's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone) (Paperback)

I enjoy Andrea Immer's approach to wine. She makes it fun and easily understandable. This buying guide lists the price range, her notes and what I think is best of all, how long a bottle lasts after it has been opened.

Great little reference book. Its also small emough to be able to put into a largeer purse or bag so you can carry it with you when you are wine shopping.