A colorfully designed place to note your best wine discoveries. Rate, rank and remember the wines you have enjoyed or maybe want to avoid on the next go around. Wine notes includes a grape guide, how to decipher a label, and a geographic map of most of the major world growing regions. Great for the novice to seasoned wine lover. What was that amazing Cabernet you had last week? How can you make sure you don't fall for that overrated Chardonnay again? How do you turn all those glasses of wine into well-honed winetasting skills? Write it down in WineNotes, the place to review, rank, and remember what you drank. WineNotes is designed for wine lovers of all kinds - for wine novices to seasoned enophiles. Here, you'll find lots of essential wine information right alongside space for your personal wine notes. Features include: The Geography of Wine - maps of the major wine-producing regions of the world. Deciphering a Wine Label - easy-to-use tables outlining the starring grapes in each region. Your Quick Guide to the Grape - the most popular grapes and their defining flavors plus side-by-side winetasting suggestions. Notes for Your Wine Discoveries - more than 112 pages to take notes on wines, plus useful wine facts throughout. by Julie Tucker and Jennifer Elias, creators of WineSmarts and WineParty Edited by Ray Johnson, whose informal approach to wine is central to the classes he teaches at universities, wineries and corporations. Ray directs TasteWine a winetasting company, is the author of The Good Life Guide to Enjoying Wine, and he judges at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Design by Rene Huber ISBN: 0-97218676-1-8 UPC: 824909 011024 Dimensions: 6 3/4" x 4 3/5"; soft cover