prolog
How to view this book

Part 1: Getting Started with Wine

1.
The History of Wine at a Glance
2.
Wine Basics
Understanding Wine Labels / What is a Chateau? / The Secret of Terroir / What Makes a Good Wine? / Vintage / Wine Bottles / Wine Glasses / Various Wine Glass Brands / Wine Corks / Oak Barrels
3.
wine grape varieties
What does it mean to know grape varieties in wine? / Grape composition / What grapes are good for making wine? / White grape varieties / Red grape varieties
4.
winemaking
How to make still wine / How to make sparkling wine / How to make fortified wine
5.
Natural wines and new wines
6.
Luxury brands and their investments, wine
7.
wine investment
8.
World-renowned wine critics

Part 2 European Wines

1.
france
French wine classifications
France's representative wine regions and varieties
1) Bordeaux
Grape varieties in Bordeaux / Bordeaux classification system / Bordeaux wine regions / How are Bordeaux wines sold? / Do you know a wine consultant?
2) Burgundy
Burgundy Grape Varieties / Burgundy Classification System / Burgundy Wine Regions
3) Ron
Rhone grape varieties / Rhone classification system / Rhone wine regions
4) Champagne
Grape varieties of Champagne / Champagne classification system / Champagne wine regions / Various types of Champagne / Representative Champagnes
5) Loire
Grape varieties of the Loire / Loire wine regions and their representative wines
6) Alsace
Grape Varieties of Alsace / Alsace Classification System / Other Alsatian Wines
7) Jura-Savoie
Jura grape varieties / Jura wine regions / Jura's signature wines / Savoie wines
8) Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon's main wine region
9) Southwestern region
10) Provence
11) Cors Island

2.
Italy
Italian wine classifications
Representative Italian wine regions and varieties
1) Tuscany
Tuscan grape varieties / Tuscany's representative wines
2) Piedmont
Piedmont grape varieties / Piedmont's representative wines
3) Veneto
Veneto's representative wine
4) Sicily

3.
Spain
Classification of Spanish wines
Spanish Wine Labeling Regulations 1
Spain's representative wine regions and grape varieties
Rioja / Ribera del Duero / Catalonia / Rías Baixas / Jerez

4.
germany
German wine classifications
Germany's representative wine regions and grape varieties
Rheingau / Rheinhessen / Nahe / Moselle / Palatinate / Franconia

5.
Portugal
Classification of Portuguese wines
Portugal's representative wine regions and grape varieties
Portugal's representative wine

6.
Other European countries
Austria / Hungary / Greece / Georgia

Part 3 New World Wine

1.
USA
American wine ratings
Representative wine regions and grape varieties of the United States
1) California
Napa Valley / What is a Cult Wine? / What is a Reserve Wine? / What is a Meritage Wine? / The Judgement of Paris / Sonoma Valley
2) Oregon
3) Washington
4) New York

2.
australia
Australian grape varieties
Australia's representative wine region
South Australia / Western Australia / New South Wales / Victoria

3.
New Zealand
New Zealand grape varieties
New Zealand's representative wine region
South Island / North Island

4.
South Africa
South African grape varieties
South Africa's representative wine region
Stellenbosch / Constantia / Pal

5.
Chile
Chilean grape varieties
Chile's representative wine region
Central Valley / Aconcagua Region
Chile's representative wine

6.
Argentina
Argentine grape varieties
Argentina's representative wine region
Argentina's representative wine

7.
korea
Korean grape varieties
Korea's representative wine

8.
china
History of Chinese Wine
Chinese grape varieties
China's representative wine producing region
Shandong Province / Ningxia Province / Hebei Province / Yunnan Province / Xinjiang Province / Gansu Province

9.
japan
Japanese grape varieties
Japan's representative wine producing region

Part 4: Wine Practice

1.
The World of Wine Tasting
The process of encountering wine, wine tasting
Why do we taste wine?
Preparing for a wine tasting
Wine Tasting Journal
The order of wine tasting
1) Observe the appearance
2) Analyze the scent
Types of Wine Aroma / Wine Aroma by Grape Variety
3) Tasting
4) Thinking

2.
Wine pairing, marriage
Wine pairings with Western-style meal courses
The Basic Rules of Wine and Food Matching
The perfect pairing of wine and food

3.
Enjoying wine in everyday life

4.
Traveling with wine

From the basics of wine, step by step
A wine introduction for everyone, with friendly graphics.

This book covers the basics of wine in an easy-to-understand manner, even for beginners learning about wine for the first time.
From the most basic way to read a wine label to the frequently used terms 'chateau', 'terroir', and 'vintage', and even how to choose and use a wine glass, we introduce the most basic yet essential wine knowledge for beginners, along with friendly graphics.


Also, it is full of various keywords and interesting stories surrounding wine so that anyone can approach and learn about wine in an interesting way as a general knowledge, such as stories about various grape varieties, which are like the 'alphabet' that must be learned first to understand wine, various methods of winemaking, what natural wine is, which is recently on the rise, and stories about the global wine market and wine critics.

Old World (European) wines as well as New World (America, South America, Australia, etc.)
A clear overview of representative wine regions and must-know wines!

This book introduces European wines, known broadly as the Old World, and new wine-producing regions, known as the New World, such as the United States, South America, Australia, South Africa, and Korea, in a colorful and friendly graphic format.
Before introducing the wines of each country, we have first neatly organized in a full-color table information on the wine producing region, representative grape varieties, climate of the producing region, representative wines, and their characteristics.
In addition, we have included a map detailing the production sites to help you understand the content.
If you memorize and memorize the information contained in this book, you will be able to systematically grasp the world's most important wine regions and their representative wines, as if drawing a mental picture.

Know-how to taste like a sommelier at home
We also introduce some great tips for pairing wine and food.

The author of this book, sommelier Lee Seon-gyeong, is the first Korean sommelier to win a gold medal in the restaurant service category of the International Skills Olympics, and has also obtained French sommelier certification. She has worked as a sommelier at several famous restaurants in Korea and France.
Based on this author's unique know-how, the book provides a wealth of useful tips on how wine experts taste wine and how to pair wine with food.
Anyone can enrich their everyday wine enjoyment through the book's diverse information, including tasting methods that make wine more enjoyable and delicious, the perfect pairings between wine and food, and recommended wines for different situations.