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Wine Guide 2006

By Jamal A. Rayyis
(Food & Wine Books, $11.95)

Reviewed by Nancy Huang

Wine guides take every shape and form these days, from beginner’s handbooks to more complicated encyclopedic books that list wines from every crevice of the earth—usually in tiny 8-point font. Thankfully, this new guide by Food & Wine magazine sits right between those two extremes, balancing useful basics with an extensive but practical wine list that offers ratings, price ranges and tasting notes. Only wines that currently appear at your local wine store or on your favorite bistro’s wine list are included, meaning you won’t have to sift through rare labels and vintages that are hard to find.

The guide also provides several short “how-to” lists on food pairing and tasting, useful tips on restaurant wine lists and wine shops, and a new “emerging regions” chapter. Foodies will appreciate the interesting wine news tidbits of 2005 and can read up on new names in a section listing some of the past year’s Food & Wine award winners. If there is one problem with this guide, it’s that it is almost too timely for its own good. Buy it now to get the most use out of it—before the 2007 version arrives.

(Published: 1/12/06)


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