Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition
By Robert M. Parker
- Release Date: 2008-10-07
- Genre: Beverages
Description
Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the seventh edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines.
Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information.
The latest edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the Los Angeles Times calls “the most powerful critic of any kind.”
Reviews
Book is missing whole chapters
1By Gwfff234Do not buy this book until the publisher fixes it. It is shameful that the book is being sold with so many parts missing.Classic Work Treated Shabbily By iBooks Version
1By SMB KronRobert Parker's guide is a classic work on wine and will remain so even after Apple's butcher job. The book, quite simply, was poorly digitized. Lists are cut off, margins begin about 1/4 into pages cutting off information, to name a few of the shortcomings. One disconcerting point, for me anyway, is that the table of contents will sometimes take you to the wine region you are interested in while other times you can rub your fingers raw and iBooks won't take you there. All in all a very shabby treatment of a respected work. Buy the real book, you will be a lot happier.Indefensible
1By lensjackIt's difficult to imagine an excuse for this ripoff. At the price charged, you might reasonably expect a complete book. Yet whole sections, e.g., everything except Europe, are blank. They've had months to fix it. Truly shameful.Only has the first 1/3 of the book, the rest missing
1By Juan9569Really a shame, would be great to have this book on my iPad. The book stops at Loire Valley (you can see that in the table of contents too), which is only about a third of the way into the book.
