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Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide / Robert M. Parker, Jr.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TP548 .P287 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Robert M., Jr., 1947-
- Standardized Title:
- Wine buyer's guide
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 1158, [6] pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third Edition
- Other Title:
- Wine Buyer's Guide
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by Simon & Schuster, 1993.
- Contents:
- How to Use This Guide. About Wine; The Dark Side of Wine; Wine Trends in the Marketplace
- The Wines of Western Eruope. Chapter I: France. Alsace; Bordeaux; Burgundy and Beaujolais; Champagne; The Loire Valley; Languedoc and Roussilon; Provence; The Rhône Valley; Bergerac and the Southwest. Chapter 2: Italy. Piedmont; Tuscany: Other Significant White Wines of Italy; Other Significant Red Wines of Italy; Chapter 3: Germany; Chapter 4: Portugal; Chapter 5: Spain
- The Wines of North America. Chapter 6: California; Chapter 7: Oregon; Chapter 8: Other American Viticultural Regions
- The Best of the Rest. Chapter 9: Australia; Chapter 10: New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Lebanon, Switzerland.
- Notes:
- "A Fireside book."
- "Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for more than 7,500 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions"--Dust jacket.
- Text printed in black and dark red.
- Maps by Jeanyee Wong. Drawings by Christopher Wormell.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak copy has illegible signature on front free endpaper (star Robert - C----?).
- ISBN:
- 0671799134 (cloth) :
- 9780671799137
- 0671799142
- 9780671799144
- OCLC:
- 28293786
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