Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine by Madeline Puckette and Justin Hammack | 2015 | Avery | Paperback $25

Red or white? Cabernet or merlot? Light or bold? What to pair with food? Drinking great wine isn’t hard, but finding great wine does require a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.

Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine will help you make sense of it all in a unique infographic wine book. Designed by the creators of WineFolly.com, which has won Wine Blogger of the Year from the International Wine & Spirits Competition, this book combines sleek, modern information design with data visualization and gives readers pragmatic answers to all their wine questions….

I like wine, but getting legit into it was a little bit intimidating. All the new vocab, funky tasting methods, and just the general snootiness of oenophile culture can be kind of a hurdle to get over.

A while back, I dug around in the internet for wine websites and blogs. There are plenty of them out there, but Wine Folly seems different from most. It seems more welcoming to newbies, more casual and fun and relatable. I was super happy to see that the creators of the website had published a book by the same name.

The book starts with the basics — how to store wine, carefully taste it, and pair it with food. Then come the wine style profiles, followed by info about regions where the grapes are grown and how geographic origins can affect quality. This is all accompanied by simple but attractive infographics that make it all so much easier to understand.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who’s interested in learning more about wine yet might be hesitating because of how intimidating the whole wine scene can seem.


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Publication information: Puckette, M. and J. Hammack. Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine. New York: Avery, 2015. Print.
Source: Purchased for home library.
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