A Guide to Wine

By: Julian Curry

Narrated by: Julian Curry

Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Actor and wine expert Julian Curry has devised a unique audiobook guide to wine which takes the listener to the heart of winemaking and wine drinking in a clear but light-hearted manner. However rich and complex the subject of wine may be, he insists it is also hugely rewarding and great fun.

Curry's informative and entertaining program begins with a description of work in the vineyard and cellar. It outlines the many choices faced by grape-grower and winemaker, resulting in the variety of different styles of wine produced. It continues with wine's journey from winery to gullet, with advice on cellaring, buying, serving food-matching and tasting. And it concludes with a lengthy section devoted to all the major wine regions, in the Old World and the New.

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Excellent format to learn.

I really enjoyed this audiobook. The presentation was interesting and engaging. Highly recommended to get a good overview of this daunting subject.

First half very fun and interesting. Second half would be better in print form for reference.

Really great personality to listen to with quite extensive knowledge of wine. The first half was great. The second was more of a run-down of wine varieties from around the world. It would be better in written form to refer to. Still, it was an enjoyable and informative listen.

Very detailed.

this book touches based on everything across the board. I am studying for my sommelier and there is a lot of great information here.

great

great book that was interesting to go through will look for the hard copy to add to my library

Lots of facts, too little stories behind

The narrator is just awesome. Tons of facts condensed in couple of hours. However I would not mind 3 times as long book, it it was told in a form of story telling, and not facts narrating. Once again, the guy is excellent narrator, passionate, but for me it would have been more fun and valuable to learn some cool story about say specific regions, not mainly types of grapes, labeling, classifications and similar.

Excellent book!!

Well written and Well read who is charming in his style and wit. Great wine education which covered all basis of this wonderful provision we can enjoy from our loving creator. Psalms 104:15

OK book

Very informative and contains a lot of wine info. Almost too detailed to remember. Also a bit dry at times.

Excellent base overview

If you are like me and want to learn more about grape varietals, growing regions, and A bit of history about wine, but tend to fall asleep reading technical books, this is the listen for you.
It's a fantastic overview, a great base study of wine, I plan to give it two or three more listens.
The author's voice, narrative, and pronunciation of the words make it even more a joy to listen to. If there was a whisper sink version I would purchase that first, that way you could go back and look at certain areas of importance and interest.
Enjoy.

Great book!

What did you love best about A Guide to Wine?

The narrator is also the writer; and in my opinion this gives the book a little extra pizzazz as he puts his heart and humor into the telling. Mr. Curry obviously knows a lot about wine but the refreshing part is that he puts it out in a way that is comfortable for someone such as me who is a lover of wine (as in its taste) and wanting to learn more. I have listened to the book at least four times so I would say that I highly recommend it. Cheers!

Comprehensive overview

This audiobook exceeded my expectations. The author provides a comprehensive overview of wine in a lively and entertaining manner. I enjoy wine but had always been intimidated by the many winemakers and varieties. I know have a much better understanding of how wine is classified and what to look for in selecting wine. I'll listen to this book again and again.

A great addition - if you are reading this, author - is to provide maps of major wine regions that can be downloaded to accompany the audio.