YOUR AVERAGE GUIDE
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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