Wine: Taste Pair Pour: A Sensory Guide to Loving Wine

The introductory guide to learning how to love wine, from wine writer and educator Charlotte Kristensen

The world of wine can be intimidating, with its huge variety of types and unfamiliar language, but in Wine: Taste Pair Pour, writer and educator Charlotte Kristensen sets out to empower the reader with accessible knowledge and practical advice. This book celebrates wine as a fundamentally sensory experience that can be enjoyed by all, with a focus on great tips for tasting, choosing and serving wine, and pairing it with food.

- Learn how to taste and talk about key grapes and wine styles using your five senses to guide you.

- Understand successful food and wine pairings, with sections detailing different food categories, each with delicious pairing recommendations and recipes.

- Enjoy wine at home and out and about, with key knowledge on how to read a wine label, hosting with wine, tips for buying wine and restaurant etiquette.

Charlotte Kristensen is a wine columnist, communicator and educator based in London. Prior to focusing on wine, she worked as a lawyer in the City of London. After falling in love with wine on a course in New York, Charlotte decided to leave the corporate world behind and made the leap into wine. In 2018, she set up her Instagram account @thelondonwinegirl to record her journey, and now has almost 20K followers from around the world.

Charlotte completed the prestigious Diploma in Wines with the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) in 2020 and is a certified WSET wine educator, teaching wine courses in central London. In 2022, she became the weekly wine columnist for You Magazine at the Mail on Sunday (2m+ readership) and produces monthly wine and food recipe videos for the @youmag Instagram channel (109k followers). Charlotte judges wine awards, runs supper clubs, produces lifestyle content and works with wine regions and brands from across the world, helping them tell their stories.

@thelondonwinegirl