Rare wines-Top 0/00 wines in the world/kloc: by Chen Xinmin.
This book is excellent information about first-class foreign wines. It lists 100 kinds of the most expensive wines in the world today, and arranges the history and information of vineyards and wineries very completely. Of course, the most terrible thing is that only the most famous top wines are introduced here, so if you want to follow the map, you need to prepare more money in your pocket.
For books such as purchase guides, including wine tasting reports, scores, winery information, etc. This is the compass for wine lovers when they are confused about the shelves. Just like people often ask online, "How about XXXX wine?" When nobody asks, just read the following books. These are the experiences of countless wine tasters.
Pocket Wine Book 2003: By hugh johnson.
This book is short and pithy, and contains the suggestions and comments of hugh johnson, a famous British wine writer, on thousands of wines around the world. This book is not big, and it contains so many contents only by small words, hugh johnson's rich vocabulary and literary taste and imagination. Sometimes you have to prepare a much thicker English-Chinese dictionary to read this book.
Wine spectator's ultimate guide to buying wine (7th edition): provided by wine spectator.
Needless to say, "wine spectator" has a strong appeal, and his N-strong generals such as James suckling are also experienced wine tasters. The most important thing is that WS has different sommeliers in charge of different areas. They are very familiar with local wines, so there will be no embarrassment of Parker Burgundy.
Parker's guide to wine purchase, fifth edition, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley wine: Little robert parker.
The score of wine tasting giant Parker even affected the auction price. But he is recognized as an expert in tasting Bordeaux and Longhe wines, and Parker's tendency is FF (fullness). Therefore, for some other producing areas, especially the elegant Burgundy wine, many people have a lot of complaints about him, so they recommend his three books, Shopping Guide, Bordeaux and Dragon River.
Although I will recommend many things such as buying guides to you, I think it is more important to taste wine by myself. Those buying guides are just other people's tongues, other people's brains and other people's pens. The following are my favorite books on wine, including basic knowledge, introduction of producing areas, winemaking and grape cultivation, history and law.
Exploring Wine, 2nd Edition: Authors: Steven Colpeint, Brian H Smith and Michael A Weiss.
This is the first book I bought, which is very rich and easy to understand, and can solve almost all the problems that beginners will encounter. But because this book was written by an American, he showed rebellious feelings about some old world concepts, such as local customs and things like that, and loudly praised the new worldism represented by the United States.
Atlas of World Wine, 5th Edition: hugh johnson, Jancis Robinson.
If I am just an ordinary book fan, I don't recommend this book. It expresses my love and understanding of this land. The book focuses on land, and introduces in detail the topography, soil composition (and maps with contour lines), winery location and climate characteristics of each wine producing area. This book is one of the teaching materials of the guide to international sommeliers.
The Art of Vintners: How to Brew Good Wine: hugh johnson.
This is a book about the secrets of wine making, from grape cultivation to wine making. There are many details in this book. Maybe after reading it, you will know the difference between a bottle of wine from 50 yuan and 500 yuan.
The biggest drawback of overseas books is that they may not be available. I can only think of a more popular way. Everyone should apply for an international credit card (Great Wall and Peony don't matter, it must be US dollars) and then go shopping on Amazon. Amazon's website can generally get a 30% discount, and centralized mail order postage can also be saved.