Product Description

Wine is much more than a beverage to be enjoyed—it's an experience that has a culture all its own. The Art of Decanting explores these rituals, tracing the evolution of wine presentation and its rich lore. Author Sandra Jordan, of Sonoma's acclaimed Jordan wines, unearths unusual practices in wine history and sifts through centuries of rituals and accoutrements such as wine furniture, vessels, corks, corkscrews, glassware, and specifically decanters, to demystify their modern interpretations and explain how they are properly used today. With a handy entertaining guide that brings all the information into a practical light, The Art of Decanting and a bottle of wine will transform the most casual of gatherings into an evening to remember.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104317 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 132 pages

About the Author
Sandra Jordan is Creative Director of Jordan Vineyards & Winery in Healdsburg, California. She designs a high-end line of wine country-inspired art and jewelry. This is her first book. Bay Area native Lindsey Lee Johnson has written for Life Books and Angeleno and Art and Living magazines. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

The perfect hostess present
A sumptuous present for less than the cost of a bottle of wine, Sandra Jordan's "Art of Decanting" is a pleasure to look at, informative to read, and creates just the right mood for building friendships over a shared decanter of wine. And she is right about decanting. I thought it was a lot of hooey (if that is the technical term), but I pulled an old wedding-present decanter out of the back of the closet and followed her directions. In a blind testing of the same wine decanted and straight from the bottle, you could tell the difference even before tasting by the perfume in the glass of decanted wine. I bought several copies of the books for friends right away.

A Compact and Unique Treasure
This charming book discusses the mystique of wine and wine tasting and includes furnishings, glassware and recipes. The language is lyrical, the photographs are beautiful, and the information is enlightening. Whether a novice or connoisseur, this compact gem has something for everyone who enoys wine.

Informative book
This is an informative book. It is not just a hardback book on decanting wine, but this book also gives a nice history of all the accessories used when serving wine (such as coasters, wine buckets, wine tables, etc).

The "menu" located in the back of this book is not very useful. In fact, I would not even recommend trying those recipes,(even if I were an advanced cook).

The photos are wonderful, especially the historical photos.

This book was written by Ms. Jordan , who works for Jordan Winery, so almost all the wine bottles shown in this book are from the Jordan Winery. But to me, that's OK because the historical information and the decanting information are what are really worth reading anyhow. In other words, I would take the information expressed in this book and apply it to any wine bottle used,(when you're presenting wine at your table).