Napa Stories Wine Journal

Rating:
Summary: I am glad I bought this book by mistake!
Review: I thought this was another great book by chef Michael Chairello about Napa Valley wines (see my review). I had no idea that I was supposed to write it!

As it turns out this will be a great little book in a few months, depending on how many bottle of wines I drink or buy. It is a very classy looking, well manufactured, spiral bound hard cover book. It is a little less than an inch thick. Steven Rothfeld's beautiful photographs are on the cover and on each divider leaf.

Rigid tabbed dividers separate the book into eight sections: Why Keep a Wine Journal?, Tasting Notes for Red, White and Rose wines, Cellar Records for Red, White and Rose wines, A Brief Glossary and finally, Wine Shops and Web Sites. There is a color matching elastic band to either keep the book closed why you are carrying it or to keep your place as you buy or taste or drink your wines.

The note pages are well thought out. The Glossary is a big help in describing what you see and taste. One interesting entry is whom you shared the wine with and what was served with it. Chef Chairello's point of view is that if you include the specific wine drank along with the dinner menu and the people you shared the event with you will have very vivid memories of the wine. If you think about it he is absolutely right.

When you take it with you on your wine adventures be sure and put your name on it and a method whereby you can be contacted if you, Heaven forbid, leave it somewhere.

The two-inch thick paper back 2002 edition of Parker's Wine Buyers Guide by Robert M. Parker, jr is available. Leave this [X] book at home, but be sure and take your personal wine journal that YOU are writing with you.

Rating:
Summary: I am glad I bought this book by mistake!
Review: I thought this was another great book by chef Michael Chairello about Napa Valley wines (see my review). I had no idea that I was supposed to write it!

As it turns out this will be a great little book in a few months, depending on how many bottle of wines I drink or buy. It is a very classy looking, well manufactured, spiral bound hard cover book. It is a little less than an inch thick. Steven Rothfeld's beautiful photographs are on the cover and on each divider leaf.

Rigid tabbed dividers separate the book into eight sections: Why Keep a Wine Journal?, Tasting Notes for Red, White and Rose wines, Cellar Records for Red, White and Rose wines, A Brief Glossary and finally, Wine Shops and Web Sites. There is a color matching elastic band to either keep the book closed why you are carrying it or to keep your place as you buy or taste or drink your wines.

The note pages are well thought out. The Glossary is a big help in describing what you see and taste. One interesting entry is whom you shared the wine with and what was served with it. Chef Chairello's point of view is that if you include the specific wine drank along with the dinner menu and the people you shared the event with you will have very vivid memories of the wine. If you think about it he is absolutely right.

When you take it with you on your wine adventures be sure and put your name on it and a method whereby you can be contacted if you, Heaven forbid, leave it somewhere.

The two-inch thick paper back 2002 edition of Parker's Wine Buyers Guide by Robert M. Parker, jr is available. Leave this [X] book at home, but be sure and take your personal wine journal that YOU are writing with you.