The Wine Avenger

by Willie Gluckstern, Ben Crumlich(Illustrator)

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Fireside, 1998. Illustrated Edition. Softcover. Brand New. 7.80 x 5.30 x 0.50. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 8.0 oz. Irreverent, informative, and controversial, this book offers indispensable information for beginners as well as for wine enthusiasts. 2-color throughout. 50 line drawings. This wonderfully opinionated book about wine and food contains advice for getting the most for your wine money, matching wine to cuisine, and avoiding the pretentious pitfalls that lie in wait for beginning wine buffs. THE WINE AVENGER, a slim paperback, promises to transform the reader into 'a wine-food genius' in one hour. It doesn't. What it does is deliver, in a highly entertaining way, randomly clustered opinions, tips, observations and explanations. Gluckstern doesn't have likes and dislikes. He has mad love affairs and Balkan-style blood feuds....The real point of THE WINE AVENGER is the opinions, and Gluckstern is full of them. If you don't agree, tough. -- New York Times - William Grimes (08/26/1998). .

Book summary

This wonderfully opinionated book about wine and food contains advice for getting the most for your wine money, matching wine to cuisine, and avoiding the pretentious pitfalls that lie in wait for beginning wine buffs.