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To af vores læsere, Anders Piil og Jeppe Voss, har gjort os opmærksomme på eksistensen af en guide til spansk vin skrevet af Jose Peñin, en guide som skulle modsvare den italienske Gambero Rosso. Den findes på spansk, tysk og engelsk. På engelsk hed bogen i 2005-udgaven Guia Penin - A Guide To The Wines Of Spain. 2007-udgaven hedder A guide to Spanish wine. Det svinger lidt, hvor på nettet man kan købe guiden, så vi opfordrer læsere til at at søge efter bogen på www.google.dk. Vi kender ikke guiden (vi har ikke samme nære forhold til
spansk vin som til italiensk og fransk), og kan derfor selvfølgelig heller ikke
udtale os om den. |
"Spain's premier wine guide appears in the English language for the first time. For over 25 years Jose Penin has written about the wines and wine growers of Spain and in 1980 created Spain's first wine magazine Bouquet. As a freelance author today he works for prominent Spanish media such as El Pais and Tiempo, as well as many culinary magazines. In 1990 he published Guia Penin de los vinos de Espana which has become the market leader in its field. His totally independent and honest opinions have decided the success or failure of the wines he tastes and year in year out the sommeliers worldwide check his views and criticisms. His system of marking wines is simple and straight forward and is the 100 point system favoured by Robert Parker. Spanish wines are rated with a system of evaluation which takes account of the purchase price and the quality hence the final equation is a favourable cost-performance ratio. There are over 6000 wines from over 2600 wineries. In the first 100 pages Penin tackles 'everything that one should know about wine'. The next 1000 pages which forms the main part of the book is the evaluation of the wines accompanied by illustrations of the wine labels and information about the address of the wine maker. In the appendix is an overview of the highest ranking wines and then the best evaluated wines by region." |