How to Fake Your Way Through a Wine List

by Katherine Cole

Whether you’re in a restaurant or a store, deciding on a bottle of wine doesn’t have to feel intimidating. Don’t worry about appellations, chateaux, vintages, and other complicated vocab. Wine expert Katherine Cole has developed simple strategies for navigating the wine world. Her fun, friendly guide offers a Choose Your Own Wine tool that enables you to find the perfect bottle, mnemonic devices to help you remember details about growing regions, a series of empowering role-playing vignettes, insider tips on up-and-coming hot spots, and a translation chapter that breaks down the wall between cork dork and beginning enthusiast. With Cole’s expert tips, choosing wines can be easy!

Paperback

First published October 6, 2015

About the author

Katherine Cole's newest book is Sparkling Wine Anytime, the companion to Rosé All Day (Abrams). She is also the author of How to Fake Your Way through a Wine List (Sterling Epicure) and Complete Wine Selector (Firefly Books).

Katherine is the host and executive producer of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning food-and-beverage podcast, The Four Top.

Her first book, Voodoo Vintners: Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winemakers (2011) was nominated for a Louis Roederer Award.

Katherine's books have been reviewed favorably by The New York Times, Wine Spectator, Huffington Post and Chicago Sun-Times.