Synopses & Reviews
The Wine Trials is the essential under-$15 wine guide that shook the wine world to its core by proving that in brown-bag blind tastings, people actually preferred cheaper wines to more expensive ones.
It all began as a blind tasting academic experiment: Could everyday wine drinkers tell the difference between cheap wine and expensive wine? When the group published its paper showing that they couldn't, the wine world lit up with controversy. The Wine Trials 2011, by Robin Goldstein and Alexis Herschkowitsch, is the brand-new third edition of the book that grew out of this experiment--the book that challenged the wine establishment and revealed the widely available wines under $15 that beat out wines costing up to ten times their price in blind tastings.
The Wine Trials 2011 is the biggest and most informative yet, with full-page reviews of 175 all-new wines for 2010, based on completely new blind tastings of the latest vintages, with a special focus on up-and-coming value wine regions like Portugal and Greece. Each review includes a cheeky, unpretentious discussion of each wine's flavors and aromas, and a photo of the bottle for easy identification.
Synopsis
This is the third edition of the book that challenged the wine establishment and revealed the widely available wines under $15 that beat out wines costing up to 10 times their price in blind tastings. The Wine Trials 2011 features full-page reviews of 175 all-new wines for 2010, based on completely new blind tastings of the latest vintages, with a special focus on up-and-coming value wine regions like Portugal and Greece. Each review includes a cheeky, unpretentious discussion of each wines flavors and aromas, and a photo of the bottle for easy identification.
About the Author
Robin Goldstein is an author and a travel writer. He has written for more than 30 Fodor's travel guides and is a contributor to the New York Times' Freakonomics blog. He has a certificate in cooking from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and a Wine and Spirit Education Trust certificate for advanced wine and spirits study. He lives in Oakland, California. Alexis Herschkowitsch is the coauthor of five Fearless Critic restaurant guides and a contributor to Fodors travel guides. She has a WSET advanced wine and spirits certificate. Tyce Walters is a student at the Yale Law School and a graduate of Yale University, where he founded the wine journal Vino/Veritas: The Yale Wino. He has also worked as a wine retail consultant and served as editor of the Yale Philosophy Review.