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Introduction 1 <p><b>Chapter 1: Unlocking the Mysteries of Wine 3</b></p> <p>Wine 101  3</p> <p>What Color Is Your Appetite?  4</p> <p>(Not exactly) white wine  5</p> <p>Red, red wine  6</p> <p>Pink wines: From rosé to “blush”  7</p> <p>Which color of wine when?  7</p> <p>Other Ways of Categorizing Wine  8</p> <p>Table wine  8</p> <p>Dessert wine  9</p> <p>Sparkling wine  9</p> <p>The Special Technique for Tasting Wine  10</p> <p>Savoring a wine’s appearance  11</p> <p>The nose knows  11</p> <p>The mouth action  12</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: The Wine Label and What It Tells You 15</b></p> <p>The Wine Name Game  15</p> <p>One or the other: Naming a grape or a place  16</p> <p>Hello, my name is Chardonnay: Varietal names  16</p> <p>Hello, my name is Bordeaux: Place names  17</p> <p>Wine Labels, Forward and Backward  17</p> <p>The mandatory sentence  18</p> <p>Phrases of origin  20</p> <p>Some optional label lingo  20</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Buying Wine to Drink at Home 23</b></p> <p>Wine Retailers, Large and Small  23</p> <p>Supermarkets, superstores, and so on  24</p> <p>Wine specialty shops  25</p> <p>Online merchants  26</p> <p>Criteria for Choosing Wine Merchants  27</p> <p>In the wine shop  27</p> <p>On the Internet  30</p> <p>Strategies for Wine Shopping  31</p> <p>Don’t be afraid to experiment  31</p> <p>Explain what you want  31</p> <p>Name your price  32</p> <p>Asking the right questions  33</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: Knowing the Necessary Wine</b></p> <p>Gadgets and Glasses 35</p> <p>Contemplating Corkscrews 35</p> <p>The corkscrew not to use  36</p> <p>The corkscrew to buy  36</p> <p>Other corkscrews worth owning  37</p> <p>Looking at Glass Matters 38</p> <p>The right color: None  39</p> <p>Thin but not tiny  39</p> <p>Tulips, flutes, and other picturesque wine-glass names  40</p> <p>Washing your wine glasses 42</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Serving Wine 43</b></p> <p>Confronting the Cork  43</p> <p>Removing the cork  44</p> <p>Waiter, there’s cork in my wine!  45</p> <p>Opening Champagne and sparkling wine  46</p> <p>Welcoming the Rebirth of the Screwcap 48</p> <p>Letting Your Wine Breathe  48</p> <p>How to aerate your wine  49</p> <p>The wines that need aerating  49</p> <p>Serving Wine at the Right Temperature  51</p> <p>Pouring Wine 52</p> <p>Keeping Leftover Wine  53</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Confronting a Restaurant Wine List 55</b></p> <p>Understanding How Wine Is Sold in Restaurants  55</p> <p>Wines by the glass: House and premium wines 56</p> <p>The (anything but) standard wine list  58</p> <p>Discovering How to Read a Wine List  59</p> <p>What the wine list should tell you  59</p> <p>Tips for using the wine list  60</p> <p>Digital browsing  62</p> <p>Ordering Your Wine  62</p> <p>Handling the Wine Presentation Ritual  63</p> <p>Trying Restaurant Wine Tips  65</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Where to Go from Here 67</b></p> <p>Taking Your First Steps  67</p> <p>Visiting dummies.com  68</p>

<strong>Ed McCarthy</strong>, CWE, (Baldwin, NY) is a regular contributor to <em>Wine Enthusiast</em> and <em>The Wine Journal</em>. <p><strong>Mary Ewing-Mulligan</strong>, MW, (Baldwin, NY) is the owner and president of the International Wine Center, a New York City wine school that offers credentialed wine education for wine professionals and serious wine lovers. She's the U.S. director of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, and is also the long-standing wine columnist of the <em>NY Daily News</em>. Mary was the first female Master of Wine (MW) in the United States, and is one of only 31 MW's in North America (with 300 worldwide).<br />Ed and Mary have co-authored six wine books in the <em>For Dummies</em> series and also share wine columns in <em>Nation's Restaurant News</em> and in <em>Beverage Media</em>, a trade publication. They are each columnists for the online wine magazine, <em>WineReviewOnline.com</em>. Ed and Mary are both accredited as Certified Wine Educators (CWE).

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