Drink Progressively - by Hadley Douglas & T J Douglas (Paperback)

About the Book

"From Hadley and TJ Douglas, the wine experts and owners of Boston's popular Urban Grape, Drink Progressively 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.."--Amazon.com.

Book Synopsis

Find the Perfect Bottle of Wine Every Time...For most everyone, tasting and pairing wine can be a complex, confusing, and intimidating undertaking. Not anymore thanks to Drink Progressively. From Hadley and TJ Douglas, the wine experts and owners of Boston's popular Urban Grape, Drink Progressively 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.

With Drink Progressively, 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.

Brimming with interesting, fun, and useful wine advice, Drink Progressively is the ideal book for anyone who enjoys wine or wants to learn how.

Review Quotes

"Drink Progressively isn't just a reshuffling of existing information, like many wine "How To" books out there. It's unique, it's something special, and it's an important step, in line with so many others of late, toward making wine more accessible. If you're interested in experimenting beyond your standard drinking wine, or concerned with learning how to match your meals with a perfect bottle, this book should be on your kitchen shelf--it's on mine!" -- Terroirist.com

"To most, wine seems to be an impossible labyrinth. Dare to enter a wine shop or open a wine list, and you're not likely to get out unscathed. We need another way. With Drink Progressively, TJ and Hadley Douglas give us that way. This book will show you how to make an easy choice of a great wine to pair with your meal, by drawing a path through the world of wine that cuts across regions, varieties, and vintages. By breaking their selection into simple categories, they give us a road map for our wine adventure, our voyage of discovery. TJ and Hadley make it fun." -- CHRISTOPHER HOWELL, Cain Vineyard & Winery

"If you wonder whether anything fresh can be said about pairing wine with food, Hadley and TJ Douglas will make a believer out of you. In Drink Progressively, the husband-and-wife team lay out their innovative approach...and the 240-page work reflects the smarts and joie de vivre of the duo." -- The Boston Globe

"This book takes wine drinking to a new level." -- Boston.com