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Wine for Dummies 4th Edition

By: Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan
Narrated by: Brett Barry
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Publisher's summary

Here's the plain-English guide that demystifies wine.

Choose good, affordable wines from the United States, Europe, Chile, Australia, and elsewhere.

This down-to-earth guide cuts through wine snobbery and tells you what's in, what's out, and what's new in wine. This update of the best-selling For Dummies classic covers everything from established and emerging wine regions to pairing wine with food to collecting wine. Here's to fun, relaxed wine exploration and enjoyment!

Discover how to:

  • Understand grape varieties and wine styles
  • Decipher wine lists and wine labels
  • Select, store, open, pour, and enjoy wine
  • ©2006 Wiley Publishing, Inc. (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

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    Most of the book is missing in the audio version

    You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

    The original book is great, but there are only 3 chapters available in the audio version.

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    Missing info

    It starts off promising, but there is not nearly enough information on varietals. Also, you'd think they would choose a narrator with at least very basic french knowledge, his pronunciations are not just incorrect, they're EMBARRASSING...and if someone is learning these words for the first time, they will embarrass themselves by learning from this guy.

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    Incomplete!!

    There were missing chapters!
    Audio was very clear but so let down by the omission of important chapters!!

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    too basic

    What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

    i believe this book could have been written ia a weekend. i have read other books ''for dummies' but not this bad.spend more money and buy from vines to wines or the wine bible

    Would you ever listen to anything by Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan again?

    i would have to see the table of contents

    What didn’t you like about Brett Barry’s performance?

    it flowed well. good pronunciation and diction

    If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Wine for Dummies 4th Edition?

    re-write the whole book

    Any additional comments?

    none

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    Not much to it, I learned only a tiny bit.

    It's just far too short and doesn't include nearly enough information about wine. Though I will say that the narrator did a great job and the book wasn't as boring as one would suspect.

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    Too basic and general

    Way too little information. I get it. For dummies. But covers some topics for seconds. Not worth it. Get printed Wine Folly instead.

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    Basic, but good.

    For sure, as the title suggests, is very basic, but contains great information. I would recommend for anyone with very limited knowledge around wine and wanting to learn a bit more about wine.

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    I hate the jumping around

    I’m really really tired and I really want to read this book. I’ve been looking forward to it for a month. I figured I’d put my audible credits to use and while I’m not missing any information and I enjoy the performance thus far…20 minutes in and I cannot follow along!! He jumps around within the chapter and it’s frustrating

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    Incomplete

    The book itself contains decent information for those who are beginners in the wine world and want to learn more. I had to read it for a school assignment and bought the audiobook so I could listen to it on my commute. Unfortunate, only about half of the physical book is included in the audiobook. I am unhappy that I paid full price for this book only to get an incomplete version. I double checked and don’t see this fact mentioned anywhere in the description.

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    I know so much more about wine now.

    I knew nothing about wine at all. Now I know at least the basics. There is still much more to learn.

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