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A Taste for Wine

A Taste for Wine

A new tasting masterclass for wine lovers

by Rose Murray Brown
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/11/2025

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A complete home tasting course, providing everything you need to know about tasting and appreciating wine, from celebrated wine critic and educator Rose Murray Brown MW (one of only 154 female Masters of Wine in the world).

From award-winning wine critic and educator Rose Murray Brown MW comes a complete guide to understanding, tasting and appreciating wine.

- Begin with the key elements of taste, before learning how wine is made and the effect this has on flavour.

- Familiarize yourself with every significant grape variety and the wine countries of the world, including a complete directory of international wineries to visit.

- Dive into natural, orange and low-alcohol wines, and enjoy expert at-home food and wine matching.

- Prepare for a changing world of wine, with features on everything from urban wineries to PiWI grapes.

A Taste for Wine includes ten step-by-step tasting practices in which to apply your newfound knowledge, interspersed throughout the book:

1. Classic Whites

2. Classic Reds

3. Full, Rich Whites

4. Crisp, Delicate Whites

5. Soft, Juicy Reds

6. Sparkling Wines

7. Comparing Sweetness

8. Fortified Wines

9. Full Rich Reds

10. Taste Trends

ISBN:
9781840918984
9781840918984
Category:
Alcoholic beverages
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-11-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Octopus Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
241x193mm
Rose Murray Brown

Rose Murray Brown is one of only 422 Masters of Wine - and one of only 154 female MWs - in the world. She is also one of very few 'generalist' MWs covering all regions of the wine world focusing primarily on consumer and trade education - as well as working as a consumer journalist.

After training at Sotheby's for 12 years as a wine and spirit specialist, Rose set up her own wine school in Scotland in 2001. She offers her own brand of consumer wine courses, virtual and in-person wine masterclasses, fine wine dinners, corporate entertainment events and escorted wine tours for beginners to advanced level. Her wine school, Rose Murray Brown Masterclass, was rated as Scotland's best in the Top Ten places to learn about wine in the UK by the Telegraph.

Rose is also Scotland's leading award-winning wine journalist. She has been the weekly wine columnist at the Scotsman, Scotland's national newspaper, for 38 years covering all topics of the wine world on her weekly Saturday page. She also contributes to international specialist trade and consumer magazines and broadcasts on BBC Radio Scotland - and has presented a 13 part series on food and wine for Tyne Tees TV/Yorkshire.

As a great lover of travel, Rose first fell in love with wine whilst studying Italian in Perugia during university holidays. Today she travels the world as a wine journalist and wine judge at international competitions (eg Hungary, Chile & China) - and personally organises and hosts consumer group tours to wine regions (most recently to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Georgia and Hungary).

Rose is a certified wine educator. She is a member of The Institute of Masters of Wine, Association of Wine Educators and Circle of Wine Writers. In her spare time she is an active charity fundraiser - she created the popular Comic Relief Wine Fair which raised over A 30,000 for Wine Relief.

In 2021 Rose was the Drinks Judge for the AndrA Simon Food & Drink Book Awards. In this process she assessed over 30 recently published drinks books giving her valuable up-to-date knowledge of wine book publishing and what they offer consumers today.

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