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Atria Books The Wine Avenger by Willie Gluckstern
Irreverent, informative, and controversial, The Wine Avenger is indispensable guide to wine for beginners and enthusiasts alike. A longtime champion of the victimized wine consumer, Willie Gluckstern debunks the myths and misinformation surrounding the (allegedly) complex subject of wine. His straightforward advice includes: *The wines that go BEST with food--and why.*A cure for label worship: There are just as many lousy $60 bottles as $3.99 bottles.*How to avoid getting ripped off in stores and restaurants.*How to choose a great wine shop: Do they know where Italy is?*Dreary housekeeping tips, such as storage, decanting, saving opened wine, and that sulfite thing. Plus, the straight poop on oak, the MSG of wine, a few well-chosen words for greedy restaurants and retailers (Those bastards!), and an unprecedented expose of mass-market Champagne, including how to find the good stuff by cracking the secret label code.