Rebel School Of Wine: A Visual Guide to Drinking with Confidence

This introductory wine guide assumes a certain enthusiasm for enjoying wine–and a certain frustration with standard approaches to writing and talking about it.

Tyler Balliet, who gained notoriety by founding a roving wine festival called Wine Riot and later a Rosé Mansion pop-up featuring a scratch-and-sniff wall to learn about wine aromas, offers a colorful course of study with jazzy illustrations, vibrant maps, and just enough wine geekery to signal his authority.

With chapters on the most common grapes, as well as the world’s wine regions, The Rebel School of Wine darts from discussions of supply chains and food pairing to the ripeness scales for German Prädikatswein and how to pronounce Willamette, as in Valley.

This will never be the last book anyone needs on wine, but it may start plenty of wine journeys.

Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout.