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Wine for Dummies 4th Edition
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-23-08
- Language: English
- Publisher: HarperAudio
Regular price: $10.26
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Publisher's Summary
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!
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- Lavi
- Jerusalem, Israel
- 08-25-13
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.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Briana
- HARVEY, LA, United States
- 03-01-11
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.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Sharon
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- 09-09-10
Incomplete!!
There were missing chapters!
Audio was very clear but so let down by the omission of important chapters!!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- Bread Basket
- Southern California
- 05-14-16
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
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Tony Aaron
- Utah
- 04-27-16
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.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- DCifuentesJ
- 04-08-16
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.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- K. Shustock
- 08-09-17
The Very Basics
It was good to listen to but is best for the beginning wine drinker and novice wine server.
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- Zoltan
- 06-15-17
Title should be changed to Wine for Retards.
This book is painfully bad!
Besides very trivial information like "Wine is framed grape juice" the book doesn't offer any knowledge, instead try to be funny, - unsuccessfully.
Strongly NOT recommended.
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- Jennifer
- 02-06-17
Guess I needed Wine for the even Dummer
Loved the section on how to look like a pro at the restaurant when asking for and assessing the wine. But I wanted to know things like how do I store wine at home when you don't have a cellar, how long can I keep wine after I open it. Do I need to keep it on its side of it didn't have a cork? I guess I'll wait for the 5th edition.
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- Amber
- 05-12-16
basic wine
it was good but much less than expected. I am still satisfied with the information.