Heard it Through the Grapevine: The Things You Should Know About Wine

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Heard it Through the Grapevine is a guide for anyone who enjoys drinking wine but panics when they find themselves standing in a wine aisle, faced with a vast expanse of bottles. In this book, Matt Skinner shares his passion and enthusiasm, guiding you through the basics of buying, drinking, storing and, most importantly, enjoying wine. Divided into chapters on shopping, drinking, eating and sleeping, Heard it Through the Grapevine covers everything you need to know about wine, from making sense of wine labels and understanding vintages to ordering wine in a restaurant and matching food with wine, Matt answers the most common wine questions, and many more. His refreshingly relaxed style is easy to understand, and his invaluable advice will arm you with a knowledge for wine that will impress your friends and have you strutting down that wine aisle with confidence.

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Matt Skinner, branded London s funkiest sommelier by the Guardian newspaper, left his native Melbourne, Australia, in 2002 to head up wine at Jamie Oliver s Fifteen restaurant in London. Gifted with the refreshing knack of making wine simple, he has been teaching and writing about wine with his trademark passion and enthusiasm ever since. Matt writes regular columns for Waitrose Food Illustrated in the UK and appears on UKTV Food s Great Food Live and Food Uncut and The Lifestyle Network s Tobie & Matt with fellow Fifteener, Tobie Puttock. Matt is also author of Thirsty Work and the annual wine guide The Juice, both published by Mitchell Beazley. He lives, works and plays in Melbourne along with wife Carly and daughter Indi.