Book Club

I attended the Berlin Wine School masterclass on retsina and wines from Northern Greece - what an eye-opener!🌟 I realized how little I know, as the WSET L3 textbook only covers Greece in a short chapter.

Looking for some comprehensive resources, I’ve found the🏺Wines of Greece portal by the Greek National Interprofessional Organization of Vine and Wine (EDOAO). It has a lot of interactive content such as maps, profiles of regions, appellations, and varieties and even podcasts (in English). I thought others might enjoy it too!

There’s also the WSET Bitesize on Greek main wine regions. It is a bit older yet provides a good overview.

Please share any additional resources about Greek wines that you find useful.

Food & wine pairing is one of the topics with a strong element of personal preference and changing trends. Becoming proficient in food & wine pairing requires putting theory into practice and testing and proving at any possible occasion. 

There are a few practice-oriented resources guiding toward building the habit with ease:

• Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience by Robert J. Harrington

• Perfect Pairing Practical Partnering by Evan Goldstein

• Fiona Beckett’s column in The Guardian

• Jancis Robinson’s interactive site (with the message to all wine enthusiasts: “Don’t worry!”)
  

I've had a chance to spend some time on Tenerife to discover how little-known and underappreciated are wines from the Canary Islands🏝️. To learn more about them and their unique story, many local winemakers and sommeliers pointed me to this e-book (free and safe to download).

It covers everything from the history and how the vines stayed phylloxera intact, to the specificities of each Canarian DOs and local varieties. It also mentions remarkable producers whose wines are often easier to find abroad than where they originate.

I find it a great resource for everybody - if you need precise information for your Spanish wine study or tips for your next travel, this book has it all!

📖Have you found a similar e-book for any wine region? Please share!

Hey all, I will have some time to read and so in preparation of my sparkling wine exam for the D4 unit of the Diploma, I'm looking for great books about sparkling wine specifically. Any recommendations?

Hey all,

Thinking about books about wine I have enjoyed recently and this one popped to the top of my head.

https://www.worldofbooks.com/de-de/products/dirty-guide-to-wine-buch-alice-feiring-9781581573848?sku=GOR008600796&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsy5BhDeARIsABRc6Zv0fj776unTexKcLiKsHL_bxw25ogt3pspVoO2OwwrFu-W8ueHCdHcaAkS4EALw_wcB

It's called "The Dirty Guide to Wine" and was written by Alice Feiring with support from famed sommelière Pascaline Lepeltier. It's a nice account of various famous wine regions but the approach - grouping regions together based on soil rather than geography or grapes - is super novel and rather interesting. I also though the author did a good job at explaining fundamental concepts and outlining how the natural wine movement has put back soil at the center, without being too dogmatic about what constitutes "good" soil practices.

It's also quite an easy read, definitely something I would recommend at level 2 or 3 already.

Anyone else read it before? Do you have other good books about viticulture to recommend?