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"The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting" by Neel Burton is a comprehensive book that covers various aspects of wine, including blind tastings, wine grapes, regions, vintners, and chemistry. The author provides instructions on how to conduct blind tastings, including recommendations for the number of wines per flight, tasting vessels, glasses, and tasting sheets. The book also delves into the components of wine, such as alcohol, acids, sugars, polyphenols, and volatile compounds. It offers guidance on assessing the flavor and structural elements of wine and provides examples of tasting notes. The author also discusses the debate on whether wine tasting is a game or a sport and criticizes wine ratings. The book concludes with appendices that provide stylistic notes for white and red wines. While the book lacks an index, it offers thorough instructions on wines from around the world. [Extracted from the article]

Elsewhere, the course discusses wine words and descriptors but does not question whether anyone can reliably describe, then replicate, wine tastes and smells (Lehrer, 2009). It has a first-rate index, contains an entertaining 43-page personal history of the author's involvement with wine, includes a first-course lesson/chapter, which provides 28 well-done pages about grapes, weather, fermentation, wine chemistry, aging, bottles,[1] glasses, and wine labels. [Extracted from the article]