Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide

by RobertMParker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.36

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.36

  This reference work for the discerning wine buyer combines tasting notes with specific buying recommendations. The author lists the best vintages, their different levels of quality and their prices. He states when the wine should be drunk and how long certain wines may take to mature. This book is both an educational and a buying manual; it is not an encyclopaedic listing of wine producers and growers. It is intended to make the reader a more knowledgeable, confident wine buyer by providing sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when buying wine. The finest producers and growers of the world's greatest viticultural regions are evaluated, as well as most of the wines currently available in the market place. The book is arranged by country, and within each one by specific viticultural regions. Robert Parker summarizes the quality of recent vintages, gives a reference chart to that area's best growers and, where relevant, gives tasting commentaries, price guides and assesses the wine according to his individual 100 point rating system.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $13.46

  Thoroughly revised and updated, this fifth edition of the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide has been eagerly awaited by seasoned collectors and occasional drinkers alike. No one wants to waste his or her precious dollars on an unenjoyable bottle, and with Parker's advice in hand, no one ever will. Employing his famous 100-point rating system and copious tasting notes, Parker evaluates more than 8,000 wines of recent vintage from all the major wine-producing regions in the world. More than 3,000 specific growers and producers from the world's leading viticultural areas are evaluated separately, and Parker's independence from the trade allows him to be completely honest in his opinions. This latest edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to offer increased coverage of Australia, the Burgundy region of France, California, and the Pacific Northwest. While continuing to provide the most extensive and authoritative reviews in the world of the wines of all regions covered previously, Parker has also added coverage of Austria for the first time ever. In addition to the valuable ratings information, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes all the information today's consumer needs in order to select the perfect bottle, store it, spot a badly stored and abused bottle, and find the best wine values. Quite simply, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide is the indispensable resource on wine from America's most knowledgeable and influential authority on the subject.