Wine Tasting in San Diego & Beyond: Partake of the Grape in San Diego, Temecula, Baja, Rancho Cucamonga and Los Angeles (Paperback)
Product Description
2nd Edition of Wine Tasting in San Diego & Beyond with over 40 wineries listed. Coverage includes wineries located in Southern California as well as Baja California. A book for anyone visiting or living in or near Southern California who enjoys the pleasures of wine tasting. Includes coverage of wine tasting techniques, local wineries and local happenings.
About the Author
Janene Roberts has lived in San Diego for more than 15 years and is a Southern California native who has traveled extensively sampling regional wines. She is an advertising professional who received her B.A. degree in Journalism from San Diego State University.
This book should have cost less than ten dollars, given the amount of useful information it actually provides. If we were to cull the empty half-pages (the author often had less than a page to write about some wineries; whatever happened to descriptive comments about all, or at least some, varietals, offered?), the useless recommendations on accommodations and shopping areas (I ordered a book billed to be about San Diego area wineries, not Bed & Breakfasts and mini-malls), and the author’s many references to a tasting room reminding her of something in Europe, we would end up with a book a little more than half the size of this book… and at $15 retail, the book is already overpriced.
There is some useful info regarding wine tasting, forming a tasting club, and comparisons of varietals, but this book could certainly have gone much further in identifying the relative quality of various wineries or different varietals within each winery’s list of offerings.
I bought this book as an out-of-towner with hopes of going to San Diego to sample some of the local wines. This book helps; but the reader could save some money by getting most of this information by searching the Internet for SD area wineries, and consulting area newspapers and tourist guides.