Sip by Sip: An Insider's Guide to Learning All About Wine - Softcover

Michael Bonadies is a partner in the Myriad Restaurant Group, headed by Drew Nieporent, whose restaurants include Montrachet, Tribeca Grill, Nobu, and Layla in New York, as well as Rubicon in San Francisco.  He is the 1996 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Magazine Writing on Spirits, Wine, and Beer.

be fun.  It civilizes, relaxes, tastes good, and is one of the world's great pleasures.  That's Michael Bonadies's philosophy, and his goal is to "cut through the gobbledygook and make wine fun and accessible" for everyone.

Presented in workbook format, the information in Sip by Sip is clear, down-to-earth, irreverent in tone, served to the reader in digestible doses, and designed to take the so-called wine snob down a peg.  The book is full of important and useful information on every subject from how various wines are produced to how they taste, how they are served, and how they differ from one another.  Obscure terms are clarified, wine jargon is demystified, seemingly abstruse subjects are clarified--all while the reader is being entertained and developing a deeper enjoyment of wine itself.