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Looking for a way to up your wine IQ in just a few sips? Courtney Cochrans
Hip Tastes is the only guide youll need.
Welcome to wine education with a fresh spin. No mammoth encyclopedias, just simple, hip tips that will help you navigate the world of wine quickly and with confidence. Here, Cochran brings you up to speed on the basics every budding enthusiast needs to knowfrom vintages and varieties, to shopping, serving, storing and - most importantly - tasting wine. She also offers candid shortcuts to help you enjoy wine like a pro including:
Surefire techniques for not getting ripped off in restaurants
Complete food pairing guides for simple flavors and more difficult foodsincluding sushi, salads, pizza, and bbq
Label-reading essentials
Phonetic tips for difficult-to-pronounce wine terms
Must-have wine gear
Best crowd-pleasing party wines
Recommended producers in the hottest wine-making regions throughout the world, and much more
A go-to guide for everyday drinking at home, in restaurants, and anywhere else wine is found, Hip Tastes is for passionate wine novices everywhere. It proves anyone can enjoy drinking, serving, and talking intelligently about great wine. Cheers to that.
Courtney Cochran is a certified sommelier and founder of forward-thinking wine businesses Your Personal Sommelier and HIP TASTES Events in San Francisco. When shes not entertaining private and corporate clients as a private sommelier, she enthusiastically caters to wine enthusiasts in San Francisco nightclubs and bars with her popular HIP TASTES Events wine tastings. C Magazine called Cochran San Franciscos Most Wanted Wine Guru and she has been profiled in Vogue.
Synopsis
A fresh, entertaining introduction to the hip world of wine
Courtney Cochrans stylish and popular monthly wine-tasting events in San Francisco have put a fresh spin on wine for a whole new generation. Now in this entertaining and informative guide, Cochran offers wine basics to novice oenophiles everywhere who want to up their wine IQ. Hip Tastes covers all the basicsfrom vintages and varieties to shopping, serving, and storing wineand offers unique, candid shortcuts to help readers navigate the world of wine quickly and with confidence, such as:
Best under $10 lists from young winemakers and sommeliers
Handy food-pairing guides
Celebrity wine picks
Best crowd-pleasing party wines
Label-reading essentials
A phonetic breakdown of some of the more difficult to pronounce wine terms
Tips for not getting ripped off in restaurants, and much more
Fun to read with charming anecdotes throughout, Hip Tastes proves you dont need sommelier certification yourself to enjoy drinking, serving, and talking intelligently about great wine. It will turn the amateur into an expert in just a few sips.
About the Author
Courtney Cochran is a twenty-eight-year-old certified sommelier and the founder of Your Personal Sommelier, a company that provides personalized wine services to adventurous wine collectors, purveyors, and enthusiasts. Her Hip Tastes events offer stylish wine-themed events to twenty- and thirty-somethings in San Francisco. She also writes an online wine column. Courtney has been featured in Vogue, Daily Candy, BusinessWeek.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle.