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Michael Cooper's Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines: 2009
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26.32% of people buy Michael Cooper's Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines: 2009 and Wine Atlas of New Zealand (2nd Ed) ~ Hardback ~ Michael Cooper.
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Release date NZ
November 13th, 2008
Author
Brand
Edition
Revised edition
Country of Publication
New Zealand
Imprint
Hodder Moa
ISBN-13
9781869711498
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2599037
Description
This best-selling title, now in its 17th year of publication, is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines. Updated yearly with new tasting notes and vintage ratings, including the most current vintage, this is a 'must-have' publication for the new initiate and the established wine-buff alike.
This book will help the buyer to make informed choices about the best value and best quality wines available. Divided by grape variety to help selection, this comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, dryness/sweetness guide, retail price and value-for-money ratings. The other features include Classic Wines - wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages - as well as sections on 'Where to Buy Wine', 'Trends in the Wine Market' and 'Best Buys of the Year', and a vintage report.
It is the most comprehensive guide available. It now includes notes and ratings on over 2600 wines. It is written by a highly respected and well-known wine writer.
Author Biography
Michael Cooper is New Zealand's most acclaimed wine writer with over 30 books and hundreds of magazine articles to his credit. In 1997, the fifth edition of his book The Wines and Vineyards of New Zealand was awarded the Montana Leisure and Lifestyle category award. His prestigious and long-awaited Wine Atlas of New Zealand, published in November 2002 to critical acclaim, won the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
This book will help the buyer to make informed choices about the best value and best quality wines available. Divided by grape variety to help selection, this comprehensive guide includes vintage ratings, star ratings for quality, dryness/sweetness guide, retail price and value-for-money ratings. The other features include Classic Wines - wines that consistently achieve an outstanding level of quality for at least three vintages - as well as sections on 'Where to Buy Wine', 'Trends in the Wine Market' and 'Best Buys of the Year', and a vintage report.
It is the most comprehensive guide available. It now includes notes and ratings on over 2600 wines. It is written by a highly respected and well-known wine writer.
Author Biography
Michael Cooper is New Zealand's most acclaimed wine writer with over 30 books and hundreds of magazine articles to his credit. In 1997, the fifth edition of his book The Wines and Vineyards of New Zealand was awarded the Montana Leisure and Lifestyle category award. His prestigious and long-awaited Wine Atlas of New Zealand, published in November 2002 to critical acclaim, won the Montana Medal for Non-fiction in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
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"A must have comprehensive guide to buying NZ wine."
The 2009 edition is the sixth or seventh edition I have owned – all excellent and remarkably reliable wine “bibles”. The transformation in New Zealand wines, especially reds, has been spectacular over the last ten years and Michael's astute palate will challenge any lover of wines to develop a taste for more than just the old favourite. With sections which pinpoint general vintage standards region by region back to 1998, best value wines, and cellaring of wines, this book is more than a mere catalogue with tasting notes.
With over 3000 labels reviewed the book is without peer in New Zealand. Each tasting includes a description, aging potential, historic ratings where appropriate, price and relative values, and a rating out of five stars. Undoubtedly the saying “you only get what you pay for” holds true much of the time but there are some standout bargains to be had on the shelves, even without supermarket knockdown specials. This book will help any keen experimenter avoid the overpriced and/or unpalatable and get some simply irresistable bargains which will knock both socks off.
Incidentally Cooper notes that since the first edition in 1992 the number of NZ wines has risen fourfold from just 800 to more than 3000. In that time we have put the lie to the notion that New Zealand is only suited to white wine production – very, very wrong.
Take this bible in one hand and your wallet in the other and enjoy what may well be the best value oenological marketplace in the world.
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