Great American Wine: The Wine Rebel's Manual

As customers of Craig Renaud's for nearly twenty years, we have been awaiting this publication with bated breath. How happy we are that it has finally appeared! Craig's knowledge of wine and his talent for matching wines with people's palates is legendary among his clientele. Great American Wine brings Craig's unique perspective on the wine business into print and gives hope to those of us who are not "wine sophisticates" but who know what we like. His is a plain talk style which he uses effectively to deflate the overblown verbiage used by many wine reviewers to intimidate us mere mortals. This is a book for people who enjoy wine and want to feel that their taste in wine matters.

This is a refreshing treatise taking on the established wine industry and gets back to basics. He confronts Robert Parker and is passionate about American Wines. As the author states,"how can you tell a 92 from a 94 when individual palates are so differnt?" Once you start it will be hard to put down. When your finished you will laugh in the future when you read descriptions such as "the aroma of rain soaked oak leaves."