The Wine Lover's 2011 Page-A-Day Calendar
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (732 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0761156186 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For the last 25 years, Karen has been a writer, consultant, and educator whose articles on wine and food have been published in more than 50 United States magazines and newspapers including: The New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town & Country. In 2004 Karen MacNeil received the highest honor awarded to a wine professional in the United States–she was named “Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional of the Yea
Buy it every year! kiwanissandy The calendar is printed in black and white. It is printed on recycled paper so it's a little gray rather than white pages. You can use the back sides of the calendar pages to recycle for your own notes as well. The pages are matte finish.Each day has a fact about wine, varietals, a quote from someone famous about wine, suggested food and wine pairings, recipes, specific wine producers, and then trivia questions. It's quite cute and would be make a nice gift for the wine lover.I hav. Far too many days were ads for wines I. Lipner I was hoping for more trivia and education about regions, obscure varietals, wine's role in history, maybe even some cool diagrams of the terroir of famous estates, etc. Instead, that kind of stuff is only about 10-15% of the content and much more shallow, with most pages vaguely describing (no vintage specific observations are ever mentioned) what are almost entirely New World wines with large productions. With barely a mention of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Rhone, Loire, Tuscany, Piedmon. online not available Derrumbe I have purchased this calendar for the past few years and was looking forward to it again. The reason I like it is that it has an internet email option. They email it to me everyday. With the paper daily calendar I would not look at it for weeks. Well the email option is not available so the calendar has little value to me.
Karen is the host of “Wine, Food and Friends with Karen Macneil,” a 13-part series on PBS television nationally. Past recipients of the Council’s awards have included journalist Morley Safer (60 Minutes), filmamker Francis Ford Coppola and winemaker Robert Mondavi. About the AuthorIn 2004 Karen MacNeil received the highest honor awarded to a wine professional in the United States–she was named “Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional of the Year” by the James Beard Foundation. She is the author of the award-winning The Wine Bible –one of the best selling wine books in the United States, with more than 250,000 copies sold since it was released in 2001.. For the last 25 years, Karen has been a writer, consultant, and educator whose articles on wine and food have been published in more than 50 United States magazines and newspapers including: The New York Times, Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town &
Plus The Traveling Wine Lover, pop quizzes, Ask Karen, and Grape Thoughts: "Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach" (Spanish proverb).. What to uncork tonight? There's Titus Vineyards' rich, softly textured zinfandel with lots of ripe raspberry, blackberry, and spice flavors. The many expressions of Vouvray. Karen MacNeil, author of the bestseller The Wine Bible, recommends hundreds of delicious bottles for wine lovers, plus food-pairing tips, lore, history, and more. Portugal’s green,