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Wine Sense makes a handy eBook on your IOS or Android device and eReader to check out tips on the best way to buy wine, store wine, drink wine, appreciate wine and to get the most out of every wine drinking experience. To order your copy of Wine Sense: The Art of Appreciating Wine on KOBO, click any of the previous links in this post. If you are interested in Wine Sense, but want to buy it on iTunes or Kindle, then go to the page in this website entitled Ordering Wine Sense. Happy reading and happy drinking!
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Wine Sense is approximately 300 pages, has 22 Chapters and is broken into four Parts:
Part One: Wine and the Senses
Part Two: How Wine Interacts with the Senses
Part Three: Enhancing Your Wine Drinking Experiences
Part Four: Where to Next?
Part 1: Wine and the Senses provides an overview and framework for understanding how wine interacts with the senses and why this can be pleasurable. Part 2: How Wine Interacts with the Senses provides a thorough explanation of how wine interacts with each sense to heighten your wine drinking experience. Part 3: Enhancing Your Wine Drinking Experiences offers a a simple approach and pragmatic tips to ensure your wine drinking is as enjoyable as it can be. Then Part 4: Where to Next? points you in the direction of other resources and ideas on how to continue to deepen and mature your pleasure with wine.
Wine Sense will be published published in June/July, 2014.
I have basically finished Wine Sense and in the next few weeks Wine Sense will be in the hands of approximately ten reviewers to critique it and provide ways to make it better. I finished the content of the book two months ago, but (1) wanted to let it rest for a while to be able to read it as a typical reader (to the best of the ability of any author to read the material they wrote!), and (2) there is a lot of work in terms of providing proper citation to other references, adding 40 images and inclusion of Top Tips and Fun Facts insets for most chapters. Then it is onto final layout and publication.
But the content of Wine Sense is close to complete, so I wanted to provide a deeper sense of what the book is about and why Wine Sense may be of interest to you. Over the next few months, I will be presenting excerpts and helpful tips from the book. First I wanted to share the Table of Contents (TOC) with you. Just reading the TOC should provide a good overview and sense of what is in the book.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Wine and the Senses
Chapter 1: Wine Enjoyment
Chapter 2: Role of Our Senses for Wine Enjoyment
Chapter 3: Philosophy of Primary and Secondary Senses
Chapter 4: Wine as an Aesthetic Experience
Chapter 5: Role of Language in Wine Appreciation
Part Two: How Wine Interacts with the Senses
Chapter 6: Overview of Wine and Sense Interaction
Chapter 7: Wine and Sight
Chapter 8: Wine and Smell
Chapter 9: Wine and Taste
Chapter 10: Wine and Feel
Chapter 11: Wine and Sound
Part Three: Enhancing Your Wine Drinking Experiences
Chapter 12: Improving Smell and Taste Sensations
Chapter 13: Improving Sight Sensations
Chapter 14: Improving Feel Sensations
Chapter 15: Improving Sound Sensations
Chapter 16: Other Ideas for Improving Your Wine Drinking Experience
Chapter 17: Buying and Storing Wine
Chapter 18: Wine Drinking Practice and Experience
Part Four: Where to Next?
Chapter 19: Tools and Systems for Managing Your Wine Inventory
Chapter 20: Further Wine Education
Chapter 21: Other References
Chapter 22: Final Thoughts
Appendices
Appendix A: Castro’s Ten Descriptors of Odors
Appendix B: Robinson’s Wine Color Chart
Appendix C: Wine Database Format and Field Listing
Bibliography
Endnotes
I originally was going to write a blog post last year on why our senses were so important in appreciating wine, how they work, and how to improve using our senses to enjoy wine more. Once the post got to 2,500 words, I decided I was going to make it a multi-part post, but by the time I got to 12,000 words, I knew it had to be a book! The book is currently 112,000 words so it was probably a good idea to go the book route! I am very excited to tell you more over the next few months and to get the book into your hands as soon as possible. More posts to follow.
Please let me know what you think about the content and structure. Any feedback is appreciated.
I have been blogging less recently as my writing efforts have been focused on my full-time job and a book on wine. I am very excited and have the book well structured, have written about 20,000 words and expect the book to be 75,000 – 100,000 words in length. This has had an impact though by reducing the time and energy for blogging.
I originally was writing a blog post on how to appreciate wine and how wine interacts with the human senses, but it quickly grew to several thousand words without being close to complete. I thought about segmenting it into a series of blog posts, but even that would have been a lengthy serial. Therefore, I decided to turn it into a book which I am thinking of calling Wine Sense. The book is well structured and I am about a quarter complete with the first draft. I am taking a four-day long weekend over ANZAC Day week after next, and taking two weeks off from my day job in July to focus on competing the first draft. I am getting about 3,000 – 4,000 words written per weekend, and when focused, I can write 5,000 words per day. Therefore, I am pretty comfortable to have a first draft complete by end of July.
But then the real work begins providing sources, footnotes, links to other resources, and finding 50 – 75 pictures to include. Then re-writing, editing, and formatting for electronic publishing. This may take an additional 4 – 6 months.
I think Wine Sense will serve a real purpose and be of interest to a large audience. I have read a number of books on wine appreciation, wine tasting, and the philosophy of wine, and I believe my book will fit into a nice middle ground and be of use for the novice and experienced wine drinker alike. It will offer pragmatic advice as to why and how to to learn to enjoy and appreciate wine drinking, and to provide you with confidence and the ability to drink far better wines on a reasonable budget.
I wrote my first book Still Stupid at Sixty a year ago under the pseudonym Blake Stevens. I have received good feedback on Still Stupid at Sixty plus learned a lot about book writing and publishing. That effort was 75,000 words and a book I had to write. It was only published independently and electronically and can be found on Amazon. My book Wine Sense will be published in both physical and electronic format and I am considering using a traditional publishing house. I love writing and am passionate about wine, so it is a good combination.
I have turned my life around financially in the last few years as presented in Still Stupid at Sixty, and am now far better off and moving on. I present it as a gift (and at $3.99, the book truly is a gift!) for others to learn from my mistakes and what to do to avoid making them.
Therefore, I will be publishing a few less blog posts over the next few months, but also taking some excerpts from my new book as preludes and hopefully to get some good feedback on the concepts before final publishing.
I love drinking wine and writing about wine and looking forward to sharing that with you even more in the near future. Please follow and enjoy the journey with me.
