Winemaker Glen Green, has released what may prove to be the most compact and concise guide published on wine tasting, for South Africa, the Essential Wine Tasting Guide©. The Essential Wine Tasting Guide© covers sparkling, white, red, dessert and fortified wine, and focuses on major South African and emerging international wine grape varieties and wine styles. Features include over 1 200 tactile, taste and varietal wine descriptors, a wine colour comparison guide, a temperature serving guide, a wine scoring guide, a list of wine faults and a neutral white background for colour assessment. The Essential Wine Tasting Guide© is a practical wine appreciation and tasting guide to use when tasting, selecting and purchasing a wine. Using the results of extensive international research and professional tasting notes, it is a key reference and wine appreciation resource for both the wine professional and wine enthusiast. 'The The Essential Wine Tasting Guide© is an attempt to demystify wine talk that can be so intimidating to people just beginning with wine. It is also a useful prompt for even the most experienced wine professional', author Green said. 'I wanted to develop a standard vocabulary for wine tasting that would appeal to people regardless of their degree of wine knowledge'. Independently published, the compact-format (that closes to credit card size) is currently available at select winery tasting rooms in Constantia, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl wineries; and fine wine stores in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Recommended retail price is R35.00Contact: Glen Green, Winemaker, Vinum Vitae Pty Ltd, Australia Tel: +61 (0) 403 220 886Email: vinum2000@hotmail.comWebsite: www.EssentialWineTastingGuide.com