Let's Open a Bottle: My Journey Through the Spanish Wine Revolution

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Summary: Like Wine & History? Here's Your Bible
Review: As someone who's trying to learn more about the "wine culture" after years of clueless intrigue, I finally found the perfect source. While it primarily discusses wines from a lesser known country/producer(Spain), this book provides a firm backbone that's easily translatable across wine regions around the world. Not sure what to expect when I started, I was quickly taken by the extreme detail discussing individual wines and vineyards, and how they vary from region to region. As much as I learned about various "reds" and "whites", I received an equally thorough education on the history of each region. Humor and a lighter tone throughout make this a fun, interesting, and very informative read.

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Summary: Let's Open a Bottle
Review: I was recently given a copy of Let's Open a Bottle by Brian Murdock. I thorough recommend this and it will appeal to anyone interested in wine, especially Spanish, or European Travel generally.

Brian Murdock writes on both of these subjects as a preson interested in wine and travel rather than as a professional wine writer or travel correspondent and it make for a great read - go buy it you will enjoy.

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Summary: More than a wine guide!
Review: When I see this book, I thought "OK, a modern guide for spanish wines, I'll get it". But it's much more than this! It's a really good landscape of the spanish wine culture, with many facts surrounding the wine and spanish people.

I think Mr. Murdock has done a really good job, and it will be useful for many pepole who loves wine and wants to know more about Spain, its wine and the people who lives there.

5 stars are for all the book if we excepts the part for andalusian wines. They are worth of a full book! :-)

A perfect gift or a perfect self-gift.

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Summary: enthusiastic
Review: you emerge from a reading whether chapter or the entirety full of information, history and amusemnt with which the author embues his peregrinations through spain to record the wine situation. and, oh yes, very particalized descritions are givenabout each area's wines for one's practical information. having been to the country twice it made me long to board iberia air lines for a prompt return. at very least, to start exploring the local wine shops,usa, and experimenting with some real kind of informed knowledge.

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Summary: enthusiastic
Review: you emerge from a reading whether chapter or the entirety full of information, history and amusemnt with which the author embues his peregrinations through spain to record the wine situation. and, oh yes, very particalized descritions are givenabout each area's wines for one's practical information. having been to the country twice it made me long to board iberia air lines for a prompt return. at very least, to start exploring the local wine shops,usa, and experimenting with some real kind of informed knowledge.