What to read #6: Wine Investing
To invest in wine, you should learn about the different types of wine. It is simple after reading a book and degustating wine in winery shops. Usually, it is not expensive, and there is even a festival, where you can try wine for free. But first, read the book.
Wine Folly, Essential wine guide.
240-pages book with illustrations. it describes how to keep the wine, to open it, how to drink it, what food is suitable for each type of wine, how to taste wine, and how to define the origin, age, and quality of the wine.
The book shows the characteristics of each type of wine, for example Chardonnay, or Sauvignon Blanc, or Nebbiolo. The Book provides a bit more information.
Wine Folly, The master guide
It is an alternative to the previous book made by the same authors. The book contains more information and describes each country deeply, starting with characteristics of temperatures, a dictionary of wine names, and characteristics of each vine in such region.
WSET collection
Attention. I did not read these books, just looked through them. After careful reading, I will delete this line and write more about the following books.
This is a collection of 7 books that are used to get a diploma in the wine industry. It explains all the processes to create and keep wine. You don’t need to read all of them, but these 2: “Wines: Looking behind the label”, and “Understanding Wines: Explaining Style and Quality”.
wine-searcher.com
Wine searcher explains in a blog the difference between regions, grapes, and aging.
The website has a database of the quality of a wine based on a region and the year produced for different price categories of wine. This is essential information.
If you want to keep your wine safe, I provide a service of keeping wine in the wine fridge, where I manage the temperature, humidity, and the position of a bottle based on the knowledge I have got after reading a book. The fridge is located in Vienna, Austria.