- ISBN13: 9781608160075
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Updated for 2010 and covering 50 percent more wines, it's the breakthrough wine guide that enamored the media⎯"Devilishly delightful" (Dallas Morning News), "Everyday wine drinkers can rejoice" (Newsweek), rattled the snobs⎯"Malicious duplicity!" (Wine Spectator) ⎯and caught the attention of consumers looking to drink better wines for less.
Now the hardworking authors and editors, along with a double-blind panel of wine experts and consumers, blind-tasted wines under $15 that will be available to consumers in 2009 and 2010. The Wine Trials 2010 will reveal the 150 winners of this year's competition⎯the best wines on the market for under $15.
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For an author that is not a wine critic, nor trained in wine tasting, wine fermenting etc. it is shocking to see so many false statements, innuneono etc. tossed at the wine industy. The wine selected were not fully blind tested. They were staged for the unsuspecting public. In most instances he did not go to wine tasters for opinion, but rather folks off the street whom were not educated in wine tasting.
This is the same “author” that recently pulled hoaxes on major magazines, laughed about it, just to sell this book.
Book is not worth a plug nicle or a bottle of Ripple.
I used standard shipping and the book arrived very quickly, much faster than anticipated. I thought the authors did a great job on that front. There are some other authors out there whose books don’t ship on time, so I guess they are more liars than authors. That’s OK for fiction, but I think this one is non-fiction so I am glad.
This book is a lot of fun, giving opportunities to get family and friends together and do your own wine tastings. I found many wines served in good restaurants in this book. See The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines in Brown-Bag Blind Tastings
The author had a great idea and ran with it. Right into a wall. Goldstein starts off by bad mouthing wine critics for being snobby, but as the book progresses he becomes very snooty himself, criticizing other wine tasters because their tastes are different from his. Wine is extremely subjective, and in his intro he explains that. Unfortunately the more I read, the bigger the author’s ego got.
I bought 20 bottles of wine from his top winners lists, and only found one drinkable. Most of them are dry to very dry, which is great if you like those, but I would have thought that given the huge number of tasters that they had (although Goldstein admits that some opinions counted more than others) that there would have been more of a variety of sweetness/dryness levels chosen. Of course, the tasters couldn’t pick anything that the author didn’t provide.
In conclusion, if you enjoy dry wines and can get past a hypocritical author, there are probably some great suggestions in there for you. However, if you like a touch of sweetness to your wines, or are tired of reading “My-opinion-is-the-only-one-that’s-valid” wine write ups, give it a miss.
Don’t waste your time on this book, there are many issues with this book. Spend it on a bottle of wine. Your guess is as good as the list in this book.
First, much of the methodology is flawed. The impression is given in the beginning that the tasters always picked the cheaper wines over the better wines but later in the book, you find out that’s not true. Just what better wines were tasted? Second, where exactly did the wines come from and who paid for them? The wines were tested met two criteria: under $15 and widely distributed? Were all 150 wines tasted by each taster and ranked? How exactly did we get down to finalist? Wasn’t this about picking the best of the mediocre not some discovery of excellent tasting wines at below normal prices? When reading the reviews I could not help but think all it was saying was, “Just go to the store and buy something red or white for under $15 by these producers”. I could go on about the methodology but you get point, it’s flawed.
One positive note is the suggestion to conduct blind tasting. It’s a fun and informative way to learn about wine with friends.
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