Reverse Wine Snob

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Most rational people don t pay 40 for 20 items And yet with wine, it happens all the time Wine can be an expensive hobby Founder of the popular site ReverseWineSnob,com, Jon Thorsen is an unapologetic frugal wine consumer He flips wine snobbery on its head by pushing a 20 or less mantra Reverse Wine Snob is designed to help wine drinkers stop wasting money and get the most satisfaction out of their drinking dollars It reveals Thorsen s Ten Tenets of Reverse Wine Snobbery ten beliefs that eliminate myths about wine as well as a unique rating system that includes the cost of the bottle so that there is satisfaction in both taste and price In Jon s unique system, the expensive a wine, the better it must taste.Reverse Wine Snob explains The number one rule all wine drinkers should follow, no matter what the wine snobs say.How to shop for wine at stores like the nation s 1 wine retailer Costco and Trader Joe s.The regions and varieties of wine that give the best value.Why the price of a wine has nothing to do with its taste.Why the distribution system in the US is broken which costs you money and limits your wine choices.Tons of Jon s very favorite wine picks.Jon dapples in every kind of wine from 10 kitchen sink blends to the 20 Saturday Night Splurge, so delicious it s worth twice the price Reverse Wine Snob brings plain old common sense to the wine industry and encourages wine lovers to explore the world of inexpensive quality wine.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking We ve been successful with books on gluten free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Free Read Reverse Wine Snob [ by ] Jon Thorsen [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Guidance in a range of areas, from specific bottles, to regions to try for particular wines, to specific bottles, to geography and climate that are best for certain styles of wine Also explains a lot about wine tasting and rating practices boy what a racketNice book to break everything down for the novice wine drinker.Lots of value and instruction to be found here Gets right to the point.Good inexpensive Wine guideThe author and I am on a similar quest, to buy the best Wine you can find for under 20 This book is a good starter guide.An unpretentious and straightforward primer on ratcheting up your wine appreciation without spending a ton The tips on unsung but quality varietals from some of thefamous wine producing regions e.g Petite Sirah from Napa, Pinot Gris from Alsace, etc I found particularly useful I should probably give it another star simply due to Thorsen s passion and inclusiveness, but a good half of the book is dedicated to specific wine recommendations, which, however useful at the moment, won t li An unpretentious and straightforward primer on ratcheting up your wine appreciation without spending a ton The tips on unsung but quality varietals from some of thefamous wine producing regions e.g Petite Sirah from Napa, Pinot Gris from Alsace, etc I found particularly useful I should probably give it another star simply due to Thorsen s passion and inclusiveness, but a good half of the book is dedicated to specific wine recommendations, which, however useful at the moment, won t l...As someone who for years routinely spent a lotthan 20 for a bottle of wine, I ve discovered many good values thumbing through this book More refreshing, though, is the author s clean and unpretentious approach to enjoying wine and getting your money s worth I shudder to think how many 80 bottles of Napa Cab Franc and Pinot Noir I ve bought when careful research or this book might have yielded an equally good bottle for 20 30 We have to part ways on wines priced below 15 the bott As someone who for years routinely spent a...Great book Really enjoyed reading about the different wine recommendations.Read it cover to cover A great addition to a home library.I appreciate the report on New Zeland reds, Argentian Malbec, and Californian Petite Sirah, also 2012 La Granja Tempranillo North of Spain at Trader Joe s.

Reverse Wine Snob
  • 26 March 2017
  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • 1632206811
  • Jon Thorsen
  • Reverse Wine Snob