Drink Progressively
From White to Red, Light- to Full-Bodied, A Bold New Way to Pair Wine with Food
<p><strong>Find the Perfect Bottle of Wine Every Time...</strong>For most everyone, tasting and pairing wine can be a complex, confusing, and intimidating undertaking. Not anymore thanks to <em>Drink Progressively</em>. From Hadley and TJ Douglas, the wine experts and owners of Boston’s popular Urban Grape, <em>Drink Progressively</em> offers an easy and enjoyable method for discovering wines you’ll love and expert advice on how to pair them with your favorite dishes. Urban Grape’s “Progressive Scale”, a unique way of organizing wine from light-bodied to full-bodied, is all you need to make the puzzle pieces of wine fall into place. The lightest-bodied wines, comparable to skim milk in texture, start off the scale at 1, while the full-bodied wines, correlating to heavy cream, sit atop the scale at 10. Grasping this simple principle is the key to demystifying the challenge of food and wine pairings.</p>
<p>With <em>Drink Progressively</em>, you’ll find everything you need to select the perfect wine for any occasion, including Hadley and TJ’s favorite regions and varietals from each progressive category; what to eat (and what to avoid) with each wine type; expert hints, tips, and know-how to make you wine savvy at home, any restaurant, and in your favorite wine shop; and delicious recipe pairings from Gabriel Frasca, executive chef of Nantucket’s acclaimed Straight Wharf.</p>
<p>Brimming with interesting, fun, and useful wine advice, <em>Drink Progressively</em> is the ideal book for anyone who enjoys wine or wants to learn how.</p>
