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  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN:9781917084499
  • Publication Date:01-10-2024
  • Pages:256

Wine Confident

There is No Wrong Way to Enjoy Wine

Kelli A White

Wine Confident

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Release dates:
UK: 1st October 2024
USA: 7th November 2024

‘Everything Kelli White writes is a gem…Wine Confident is equal parts guide and inspiration, destined to become a modern classic.’
Jessica Dupuy, Forbes

‘White is funny, clever, brisk and talks on the page as if she’s sharing a glass with you. I meant to dip into it and ended up absorbed for an hour’
Victoria Moore, The Telegraph

’...flooded with warmth and unpretentious honesty'
Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com

‘Reading Kelli A White’s words is like chatting with a best friend who also happens to be a wine pro– it’s honest, engaging, entirely without pretension, totally relatable and utterly fascinating'
Rosamund Hall, Club Oenologique

‘She is right there in the trenches with all the rest of us, learning, thinking, having a great time, and falling in love with wine over and over again.’
Karen MacNeil

‘With so much information online and so many “influencers”, it’s easy to forget that wine enjoyment isn’t a series of snapshots but a journey. Think of Kelli White as your knowledgeable, charming and funny tour guide, who will meet you at any point along your own wine trail.’ 
Dorothy J. Gaiter, senior editor, Grape Collective

‘Kelli White's book is every bit as brilliant as you would expect from one of the best communicators out there.’
Jane Anson 

‘Let this most unpretentious (and evidently kind-hearted) former sommelier chat to you over your shoulder. Drink up the wisdom. By the end, you’ll have all the tools you need to maximize wine pleasure while minimizing wine stress.’
Andrew Jefford

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The same elements that make wine thrilling – its breadth of regions, varieties and vintages, its ever-changing nature, rituals and the many languages of its labels – can also make it intimidating. And this breaks Kelli White’s heart. In Wine Confident, she takes the anxiety out of wine description by teaching us how to reach the right metaphors; debunks the myths around restaurant choices; tells the truth about sommeliers (she’s been there, she is one!), and teaches us how to order wine like a pro. For Kelli, wine really matters – not just as a fine-dining accompaniment or to relax your shoulders at the end of a long day, but as a clue to the character of our natural world. Here, upper-class pretensions are swept aside and the core message of this book –communicated with Kelli’s uniquely quirky wit and warm humour – is clear.

There is no wrong way to enjoy wine.

• How to taste: it’s about using all your senses!
• Training your nose: pay attention to your world and be a better smeller!
• Letting the poets in: learn to connect flavour with language
• Kelli’s advice on talking to sommeliers and ordering wine like a pro
• Don’t overthink it: wine, food, difficult bottles and choosing your stemware...
• How to start a collection – and how to store it if you’re cellar-less
• Lessons in anatomy: how grapes are grown and wine is made (and how this affects the flavours in your glass)
• Wine and the future: understanding organic, biodynamic, regenerative and sustainable wine production in our warming world
• You decide! ...the many ways that wine knowledge can change your life


Kelli A White is the Director of Education for the Wine Center at Meadowood in Napa Valley. She is also a celebrated sommelier and author, having penned the award-winning Napa Valley, Then & Now and contributed to a variety of other books including the World Atlas of Wine, the Oxford Companion to Wine, and the Academie du Vin Library works On California, On Champagne and On Burgundy. Her articles have appeared in many top wine publications and earned her two coveted Roederer Awards. In addition to making select television and film appearances, Kelli has lectured on wine all over the world. She prides herself on making wine easy to understand without oversimplifying the subject. She lives in Napa with her husband and daughter.

  • Weight 1.1 kg
  • Dimensions 189 x 230 mm

‘The books that taught me about wine were about places and people. It’s the history and stories about a wine that bring it to life and make it worth talking about.’

– Steven Spurrier