{"id":2328,"date":"2018-10-06T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:32:41","slug":"wine-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/2018\/10\/06\/wine-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I have to talk about\u00a0Madeline Puckette&#8217;s book\u00a0 The <strong>WINE FOLLY &#8211; Magnum Edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2111 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/winefolly.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been associated with wines and beverages for over 40 years now.\u00a0 I was trained by a sommelier and spent hours and hours reading over 60 books about wines, how they are made, the grapes, the regions, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0I read Hugh Johnson&#8217;s Atlas of Wines, several editions cover to cover and used that as a basis for education when I taught wine appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>Wine Folly is a new approach to wine education.\u00a0 It removes the old stuffy snobbery approach with all those big words that most people do not understand or even care about.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline&#8217;s approach is so fresh.\u00a0 Its humorous, its fun, its educational, its detailed.\u00a0 It covers just about every aspect that anyone needs to know about wines.\u00a0 \u00a0This book is great for the person who just wants to start learning about wine, or for someone who is a sommelier.<\/p>\n<p>A fantastic book, hop over to Amazon to purchase a copy.\u00a0 You will not regret it!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I have to talk about\u00a0Madeline Puckette&#8217;s book\u00a0 The WINE FOLLY &#8211; Magnum Edition. I have been associated with wines and beverages for over 40 years now.\u00a0 I was trained by a sommelier and spent hours and hours reading over 60 books about wines, how they are made, the grapes, the regions, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0I read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/2018\/10\/06\/wine-folly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wine Folly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-wine-details","post_format-status"],"views":224,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdilauro.com\/CarpeVino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}