{"id":6634,"date":"2007-12-04T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/a-good-nose-great-legs\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T04:31:00","slug":"a-good-nose-great-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/12\/a-good-nose-great-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"A GOOD NOSE & GREAT LEGS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>WE always digress a little at this time of year to bring you our pick of some Christmas-stocking reading for a special someone into the enjoyment of wine.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019ve family or friends fit that category, don\u2019t look past giving them The Art of Wine from the Vine to the Table \u2013 sub-titled \u201ca good nose & great legs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written by wine educator, broadcaster and marketer, Robert Geddes it\u2019s 300+ easy-to-read pages are jam-packed with the story of wine from the importance of where the grapes are grown (\u201csoils ain\u2019t soils,\u201d) to their month-by-month life-cycle, the difference between making table, sparkling and fortified wines, and wine varieties including some we bet you\u2019ve never heard of.<\/p>\n

Rob, who was only Australia\u2019s third Master of Wine, also talks about what to look for in terms of bouquet and nuances of flavours on the tongue and through the nose, the importance \u2013 with examples \u2013 of matching food and wine, \u201cglass rules,\u201d and the difference between \u201cgreat\u201d and \u201cboring\u201d wine lists.<\/p>\n

This is a most enjoyable book for those who already know something about wine, but want to know more: and you\u2019ll enjoy his lively writing style that ranges from the racy to the delightfully droll and quirky.<\/p>\n

At $39.95 in time for Christmas, the wine buff will find themselves referring to this gem time and again \u2013 and we loved the many quotable quotes scattered liberally through its pages, from W.C. Fields\u2019 \u201cWho took the cork out of my lunch?\u201d to the white-collar crim who told his captors on his way to prison: \u201cI\u2019m not worried about the reds, they\u2019ll keep. But I am worried about the whites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WE always digress a little at this time of year to bring you our pick of some Christmas-stocking reading for a special someone into the enjoyment of wine. And if you\u2019ve family or friends fit that category, don\u2019t look past giving them The Art of Wine from the Vine to the Table \u2013 sub-titled \u201ca […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}