Anyone Can Taste Wine - (You Just Need This Book)

If you love wine, this book will give you all the knowledge and self-confidence you need to become a world-class wine taster. It reveals in methodical steps exactly how to acquire essential wine-tasting skills. Cees (it’s pronounced ‘Case’) van Casteren is a brilliant scientist, author, and international wine competition judge, as well as one of the global super-elite (less than 500 top experts worldwide) who have been able to earn the supreme title, Master of Wine.

Anyone Can Taste Wine first appeared in Dutch and instantly established itself in the Netherlands as far and away the most authoritative and popular book on the subject.

From the book’s introductory chapter:

“Many people typically believe that the ability to taste comes from some kind of inborn, innate aptitude—as though ‘taste’ were a genetic hand-me-down—something that you either have, or you don’t have. But tha