30 Second Wine Advisor - The book

[Robin Garr]

30 Second Wine Advisor - The book

<table border="0" align="right" width="150"><tr><td><img src="http://www.wineloverspage.com/graphics1/tswabook210.jpg" border="0" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td>Order Robin Garr's "The 30 Second Wine Advisor: Learn about wine in 30-second tastes - quick, easy & fun" from Amazon.com in paperback for $19.95.</td></tr></table>It has been almost nine years since I sent out the first edition of <I>The 30 Second Wine Advisor</i>, and since that day early in 1999, almost 2,000 columns have gone out to a growing Email list that now numbers some 40,000 wine lovers in more than 100 countries around the world.

Over those years, quite a few of you have asked a frequent question: "Why don't you assemble a bunch of these articles into a handy learn-about-wine book?"

Makes sense to me! Now, just in time for holiday gift-giving, we've published <I>The 30 Second Wine Advisor</I>, subtitled, "Learn about wine in 30-second tastes - quick, easy & fun."

As the name implies, the book - like this column - breaks wine appreciation down into short, informative articles. Each article doesn't take long to read, but taste by taste, day by day, they build your wine knowledge and enhance your confidence in the sometimes daunting world of fine wine.

We've sought to include something for everyone in this collection of wine tips, trends and trivia. You'll find answers to the most frequently asked wine questions, plus all sorts of wine basics: "How many people is a bottle of wine supposed to serve?" "Why do waiters always stick the white wine in an ice bucket, but never the red?" "How come none of the good red wine is sweet?" And, "Why do wine judges spit it out?"

You'll also catch up on wine trends: organic wine, screw caps, sulfites, wine you can carry home from the restaurant, shipping wine to your home, and more. Not to mention the kind of offbeat lore you expect from The 30 Second Wine Advisor but rarely find elsewhere: What wine goes with spam? What foods <i>don't</i> go well with wine? Do those wacky wine-enhancing magnets and crystals really work? (Answer: No.) All this and much more: You'll find it here.

<i>The 30 Second Wine Advisor</i> is currently available in paperback for $19.95, only from Amazon.com. Click to learn more and place your order:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1434816486/robingarrswineloA/

If you've enjoyed my random daily walks through the world of wine, I think you'll find this more organized collection a quick and useful guide, for yourself and for friends who already love wine or who would like to make its acquaintance. What's more, your purchase will go a long way to help support this column and all of WineLoversPage.com, for which you have my grateful thanks.

Fantastic, Robin!

Great news, Robin. A very useful present for a number of people on our list. Thanks very much. Regards, Bob

[Robin Garr]

Great news, Robin. A very useful present for a number of people on our list. Thanks very much. Regards, Bob

Feel free to post a review or comment on Amazon, Bob.

Will do. I'm torn over writing it now, or waiting for it to arrive here, and then review it when I get home in a week or so.

I'll probably wait. BTW, I mentioned this to other writer/posters here, but look into setting up a writer's blog on Amazon. I follow a number of writer's who do so, and it's a really nice way to keep in touch with authors and in my case other fans of a particular author.

Regards, Bob

While I'm on my consumer's soap box, Robin, please take advantage of this offer from Amazon:

Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

This is a wonderful way to encourage readers to buy your book -- it's counter-intuitive, but many readers are turned off by books that don't offer the feature.

Regards, Bob

Well done on the book. About time, I say.
Love the hot pink colour.

[Robin Garr]

While I'm on my consumer's soap box, Robin, please take advantage of this offer from Amazon:

Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

This is a wonderful way to encourage readers to buy your book -- it's counter-intuitive, but many readers are turned off by books that don't offer the feature.

Bob, I'm all for it! Mary is the functionary on this book - it's really her project with my words, but I checked with her and she tells me this is being done, but it takes a while to get it set up. They have to scan the book and I suspect we have to wait our turn. It's coming, though.

I'm less whelmed by the idea of the author's blog simply because I'd much prefer to have folks come to WLDG to talk about it.

"I'm less whelmed by the idea of the author's blog simply because I'd much prefer to have folks come to WLDG to talk about it."

Let me try to whelm you -- never an easy task in my experience -- but getting folks to come here is one of the goals. And I think you could make it interesting for readers, and easy for you to maintain on a weekly basis.

I'll draft up a little text to be wrapped around the weekly entries -- a short version of one of your letters, either the wine or the food -- similar to the Administrivia section of your letters.

The text would encourage folks to visit here and discuss the topics further, not only with THE WRITER, but with his many admirers as well.

A couple of authors do this in a very elegant way. I'm offline for a week, but I'll read a few and revert.

Kudos to Mary for getting you to authorize this very helpful book. And Happy Thanksgiving to you both.

Regards, Bob