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Italian Wines 2003
Customer Review: There have to be better choices than this
Of all the wine books in my collection, this is the only one I just cannot bring myself to read or study. It is poorly laid out and difficult to use as a ready reference, and it is not good reading to use for pure recreational or educational reading. I pick it up from time to time thinking that the layout will become comfortable for me if I persist, but it does not, and I do not. It has neither the straightforward reference style of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Guides nor the fabulous reading and educational style of Parker's Bordeaux.
Customer Review: Good book, badly structured
This is by far the best (annually updated) guide for Italian wines available on the market. It contains all those nice (and very often surprisingly cheap) bottles that make Italian wine so special.
The book is structured according to wine regions (Sicily, Tuscany, etc.), which is alright. But within those chapters, the reader very often gets lost, because subsequently the producers presented are listed according to their village (post code). This means that the alphabetic lists of wines and producers at the end of the guide is absolutely crucial almost any time one want to use the book, something that's not very user-friendly.
A second criticism that must be levelled against the Gambero is its evaluation system: wines are first marked with 0, 1, or 2 glasses, and those making it into the finals are the ones which have gained at least 2 glasses (but not all of those). Among those finalists (glasses marked in red) some receive a third glass, making them Italy's wine élite. This system may have tradition but a slightly wider scale (1-5, 1-10, 1-20, or Parker's 100-point-system) would better distinguish between different wines. So, most wines listed end up with one or two glasses, and the reader might believe that there is not much difference between them.
In the end, this book is a must for wine enthusiasts, but its presentational style ought to be improved. Not a criticism of the English edition, though: it's the Italian original that must address this problem first.
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