Book Review: Great Wine Made Simple By Andrea Immer Robinson

Making wine easier to understand, more fun to enjoy and allowing wine lovers at all levels to gather new knowledge and hands-on tasting experiences is what Great Wine Made Simple is all about. Andrea Immer Robinson does a remarkable job of welcoming wine enthusiasts deeper into the world of wine in a friendly, down-to-earth style, using a pragmatic, hands-on tasting approach to wine and wine regions. Readers will enjoy the read and will have a blast during the well-designed wine tastings that accompany key wine concepts.

Great Wine Made Simple by Master Sommelier, Andrea Immer Robinson, has to be one of the most approachable, user-friendly wine books on the market. Funny, witty and presenting a wealth of critical wine information in an engaging format, Great Wine Made Simple does just what it says. It takes the nuances of the wine world and breaks out key concepts into hands-on tasting exercises or regional wine themes, demystifying the wine experience and equipping oenophiles of all levels to understand and enjoy wine even more.

Beginning with the big six wine grapes (Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon) and moving into easy to understand flavor profiles for the most prominent varietals, Robinson does a fantastic job covering what a wine will spotlight if its dry, oaky, tannic or high in acidity. She then goes on to cover fruit and florality, spice and butter, body and style with full-on flavor maps and plenty of party perfect wine tastings. Unveiling wine labels so that consumers can read between the lines and gather clues as to what the wine will reveal in the glass, arming readers with expectations for Old World verse New World wines and laying out wine regions in memorable snippets of useful information, Great Wine Made Simple brings the best of the classroom and wine bar to your table.