- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Gibson Square Books Ltd; First edition (27 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190614222X
- ISBN-13: 978-1906142223
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 434,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Apart from grapejuice, do you have any idea what goes into the wines you enjoy? Is champagne just empty hype? How have so many restaurants become wine rip-offs? A sense of mystery clouds the basic understanding of wine. Its rituals are manipulated to maintain lies and myths about wines, often to make them seem better and ridiculously expensive. So what is the real story? In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Malcolm Gluck writes about the scams, deceptions and lies that wine growers, merchants, supermarkets, waiters and wine writers use to confuse you. Ever since he wrote his first newspaper article on wine in 1989, Malcolm Gluck has been collecting the damning evidence. Here he reveals for the first time the secrets people in the wine industry would prefer wine drinkers did not know.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'll have to agree with both previous reviewers. Mr Gluck knows an awful lot about wine, but he knows very little about the English language and how it should be written. The text suffers throughout from poor grammar, adjective overload, howling spelling errors and a confused structure in terms of the content and it's division into random chapters. The reader has to concentrate hard as they decode the mangled syntax and try and figure out exactly what it is Mr Gluck is trying to say. Something that does emerge is his passion for wine and refusal to compromise - see the numerous and often hilarious examples of him returning "corked" bottles in restaurants. Mr Gluck, can I return this book, please?
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found the overall content of the book informative but sadly the author is unnecessarily crude in his choice of language from time to time. Of more concern is the fact that the text appears never to have been proof-read by anyone before it went into print. The frequency of typos is appalling and when I wrote to the publisher to mention this, my letter was totally ignored. At £14.99 a copy, the reader has a right to expect a far better and more professional presentation the lack of which, in this case, takes away from what might otherwise have been a decent read. Still three chapters from the end I'd had enough of a text that, sadly, will not be retained. £14.99 down the drain, along with much of the wine the author samples.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While agreeing with some of the sentiments expressed in previous reviews, I'd like to suggest that the main reason for buying a book like this is to learn more about wine, never mind the typos or the grammar.
And I learned a lot; I'll never again blindly buy the 'half price' wines in the supermarket, I'll try to follow winemakers rather than wine regions, and I'll follow a whole host of other tips and advice that this very informative book provided. And, as a matter of fact, I enjoyed the bitchy sniping that peppered the last chapters in particular. Great fun!
And I learned a lot; I'll never again blindly buy the 'half price' wines in the supermarket, I'll try to follow winemakers rather than wine regions, and I'll follow a whole host of other tips and advice that this very informative book provided. And, as a matter of fact, I enjoyed the bitchy sniping that peppered the last chapters in particular. Great fun!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An insightful and alternative viewpoint
Malcolm Gluck introduces a number of topics that are either 'against the current' of wine thinking or directly counter to wine business (such as his story of the 1p a bottle... Read more
Published 21 months ago by M. Summerfield
Badly needs an editor
Malcolm Gluck has interesting and valid points to make about the
complete twaddle often talked and written about wine. Read more
complete twaddle often talked and written about wine. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2010 by Bibliophile
A Whiner expert
Oh dear. Whilst Gluck makes some interesting points and is, on the ocassion, right on the button he comes across as an old whiner. I do wonder if someone (french? Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2009 by The Voice Of Reason
REVIEW OF THE PAPERBACK
I notice that several other reviewers mention typos and grammatical errors in the hardback. Well amazingly they are still there in the paperback - assuming that my copy has the... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Big Jim
Nice ideas - but worth a book on them?
Malcolm Gluck certainly has a good track record. He wrote the wine column for the Guardian until 2004, and already in 1991 compiled his first guide Superplonk on supermarket wines. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2009 by Bernard Smith
M Gluck's great book swindle
One VERY boring book,almost lost the will to live. Learnt nothing from this book i didn't already know . Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2009 by Andrew Parsons
Very disappointing
This is one of the most disappointing books I have read for a while. It is mostly a rant. The good points Gluck makes, and there are some, are put into the shade by the... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2008 by Charles Elvin
Whine
This book came out prior to its Amazon release date (16/10). I've read about half of it. It is mildly entertaining in parts, but is mainly a vitriolic attack on almost everyone... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2008 by Raffers
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