Product Description

Looking for a way to up your wine IQ in just a few sips? Courtney Cochran’s Hip Tastes is the only guide you’ll need.

Welcome to wine education with a fresh spin. No mammoth encyclopedias, just simple, hip tips that will help you navigate the world of wine quickly and with confidence. Here, Cochran brings you up to speed on the basics every budding enthusiast needs to know—from vintages and varieties, to shopping, serving, storing and - most importantly - tasting wine. She also offers candid shortcuts to help you enjoy wine like a pro including:

• Surefire techniques for not getting ripped off in restaurants
• Complete food pairing guides for simple flavors and more difficult foods—including sushi, salads, pizza, and bbq
• Label-reading essentials
• Phonetic tips for difficult-to-pronounce wine terms
• Must-have wine gear
• Best crowd-pleasing party wines
• Recommended producers in the hottest wine-making regions throughout the world, and much more

A go-to guide for everyday drinking at home, in restaurants, and anywhere else wine is found, Hip Tastes is for passionate wine novices everywhere. It proves anyone can enjoy drinking, serving, and talking intelligently about great wine. Cheers to that.

Courtney Cochran is a certified sommelier and founder of forward-thinking wine businesses Your Personal Sommelier™ and HIP TASTES Events™ in San Francisco. When she’s not entertaining private and corporate clients as a private sommelier, she enthusiastically caters to wine enthusiasts in San Francisco nightclubs and bars with her popular HIP TASTES Events™ wine tastings. C Magazine called Cochran “San Francisco’s Most Wanted Wine Guru” and she has been profiled in Vogue.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #722734 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Courtney Cochran is a twenty-eight-year-old certified sommelier and the founder of Your Personal Sommelier, a company that provides personalized wine services to adventurous wine collectors, purveyors, and enthusiasts. Her Hip Tastes events offer stylish wine-themed events to twenty- and thirty-somethings in San Francisco. She also writes an online wine column. Courtney has been featured in Vogue, Daily Candy, BusinessWeek.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!
Brilliant! This wonderful book helps you enjoy tasting wine on a new level. Clever and fun to read. Perfect holiday gift.

The Perfect Gift!
Last holiday season I gave this gift to my whole "list" -- ranging from close friends, to office folks, to my grandparents! Everyone gave me GREAT reviews on the book. Since then, I notice the gift recipients have this book prominently placed on their coffee tables or book shelves when I visit their homes. Apparently, it makes them feel hip too! I will definitely be giving this gift again in 2008 to anyone I may have forgotten in 2007.

Great book
I picked up this book and also gave it to guests at a wine tasting party I just had for my husband - hosted by the author Courtney Cochran - and everyone has given me rave reviews.

the book is very well written and easily read - lots of good ideas and information about wine tasting. I would highly recommend this book to anyone considering to buy it.