Great American Wine: The Wine Rebel's Manual

by Tony Bamonte, Suzanne S. Bamonte, Craig Renaud

In his manual, the Wine Rebel takes on the giant of the wine critic industry, Robert Parker. When he finishes, he leaves the reader wondering how Parker ever achieved credibility in the first place. Amazingly, this burly, rough, tattooed biker from North Idaho simply cuts through years of phony wine babble and the scientifically impossible 100-point wine-scoring system. The Wine Rebel calls things as he sees them and is refreshingly right on target.The Wine Rebel?s manual is also filled with diverse wine-related images, illustrations and information, presenting the reader with an engaging tour of substance in various and clever forms. Most importantly, the Wine Rebel is a man on a mission in support of the American Wine Industry and truth in the wine rating and marketing system. His slogan, ?Let me taste any $200.00 foreign bottle of wine and I will match or exceed its taste and quality with a bottle of American wine at a fraction of the cost,? attests to his confidence in the American Wine Industry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974088161
• ISBN13: 9780974088167
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Tornado Creek Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

American Bacchus

As customers of Craig Renaud's for nearly twenty years, we have been awaiting this publication with bated breath. How happy we are that it has finally appeared! Craig's knowledge of wine and his talent for matching wines with people's palates is legendary among his clientele. Great American Wine brings Craig's unique perspective on the wine business into print and gives hope to those of us who are not "wine sophisticates" but who know what we like. His is a plain talk style which he uses effectively to deflate the overblown verbiage used by many wine reviewers to intimidate us mere mortals. This is a book for people who enjoy wine and want to feel that their taste in wine matters.

Great American Wine - The Wine Rebels Manual

This is a refreshing treatise taking on the established wine industry and gets back to basics. He confronts Robert Parker and is passionate about American Wines. As the author states,"how can you tell a 92 from a 94 when individual palates are so differnt?" Once you start it will be hard to put down. When your finished you will laugh in the future when you read descriptions such as "the aroma of rain soaked oak leaves."