A Wine Lexicon: Increasing Your Knowledge
A Wine Lexicon: Increasing Your Knowledge
Authors: Terry and Kathy Sullivan
Publisher: Wine Trail Traveler, LLC
Price: $19.95 paperback
Copyright: 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9983380-0-2
Pages: 240
A Wine Lexicon: Increasing Your Knowledge is an enjoyable and easy-to-use guide to the unique wine vocabulary with anecdotes gleaned from 10 years of wine experiences. Discover what wine enthusiasts are referring to when they use particular wine words. Numerous wine stories associated with certain wine vocabulary are described.
What makes this book different than a traditional wine vocabulary book are the many terms that have an anecdote, story or recipe accompanying the terms.
| Wine Term | Anecdote or Story |
| 1976 year | Judging Wine with Steven Spurrier |
| art and wine | Adorning Walls and Vineyards |
| azarphesha | To Love |
| barraca | Cava Tasting in a Barraca |
| barrel | Mesmerized by Hammer Force |
| blending party | The Perfect Pinot |
| blind tasting | Blind Tasting Parties at Home |
| cap | Punching Down the Cap |
| cava | The Cava Regulatory Board |
| champagne | Some Rules for Champagne |
| chocolate and wine | Chocolate and Wine Pairing |
| disgorgement | Disgorging a Bottle by Hand |
| effervescence | A Winemaking Mistake |
| entrée | Crock-Pot Chili Recipe |
| expectorate | Spitting Wine |
| harvest | Harvest Experiences |
| icewine | An Icewine Debate |
| indigenous | Commercial or Indigenous? |
| L'Oenosablier | A Fancy Spitton |
| Marechal Foch | Harvesting Marechal Foch |
| Mission | Experiencing the Mission Grape |
| monastery wine | Georgian Monastery Wine |
| mulled wine | Mulled Wine Recipe |
| pairing | Tips for Wine and Food Pairings |
| phylloxera | A Museum to Learn About Phylloxera |
| press | What Happens if You Press too Much? |
| qvevri | Making Wine in a Qvevri |
| Rkatsiteli | Rkatsiteli's Six Thousand Mile Journey to the United States |
| Sangiovese | A Boaring Tale |
| second run wine | Our Second Run Wine Making Experience & Second Run Wine Recipe |
| stemware | Cleaning Stemware |
| tank | Beyond the Luster of Stainless Steel |
| terroir | In Search of Terroir |
| Tuscany | Spending Two Weeks on a Vineyard in Tuscany |
| Umbria | Umbrian Discoveries |
| vineyard library | In Search of Vineyard Libraries |
| wine cathedral | Visiting Wine Cathedrals |
| wine caves | Memorable Wine Caves |
| wine jelly | Wine Jelly Recipes |
| wine regions | Some Wine Regions of the World |
| yeast | Winemaking Yeast Selection: Not as Simple as in the Kitchen |
Chapters
In addition to the Introduction, there is a chapter about frequent numbers used in wine. Each letter of the alphabet is also a chapter.
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