--- product_id: 323484 title: "The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide To Becoming A Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That" price: "AED 91" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/323484-the-essential-scratch-and-sniff-guide-to-becoming-a-wine store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # 16 authentic wine scents humorously illustrated guide interactive wine aroma flowchart The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide To Becoming A Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That **Price:** AED 91 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🍇 Sniff, Sip, and Slay Your Wine Game Like a Pro! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide To Becoming A Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That - **How much does it cost?** AED 91 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/323484-the-essential-scratch-and-sniff-guide-to-becoming-a-wine) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Interactive Aroma Map:** Navigate your wine preferences easily with a fun, illustrated flowchart that guides your choices. - • **Quality Used Condition:** Carefully preserved with intact scents and packaging, ensuring a premium tactile and olfactory experience. - • **Master Sommelier Expertise:** Learn from Richard Betts, one of fewer than 200 master sommeliers worldwide, without the wine jargon. - • **Perfect Gift & Coffee Table Book:** A stylish, conversation-starting addition to any wine lover’s collection or living room. - • **Scratch & Sniff Sensory Experience:** Engage your senses with 16 realistic wine aromas that bring wine tasting to life. ## Overview This uniquely engaging book by master sommelier Richard Betts combines humor, education, and 16 scratch-and-sniff aromas to help readers identify and appreciate wine components effortlessly. Ideal for novices and enthusiasts alike, it includes an interactive aroma map and is presented in excellent used condition, making it a perfect gift or coffee table centerpiece for the modern wine aficionado. ## Description Richard Betts is one of fewer than two hundred master sommeliers in the world, but he’s no wine snob and he hates wine-speak. In the first book of its kind, he helps readers scratch and sniff their way to expertise by introducing the basic components of wine—the fruits, the wood, the earth—enabling anyone to discover the difference between a Syrah and a Sangiovese and get the glass they love every time. Humorously illustrated, with 16 scents, this irresistible gift puts the fun back in wine fundamentals. Review: Super Cute and Accurate. - My friend is definitely a wine snob/lover... so I thought this was a cute book to read and share with him. He was laughing the whole time I read from it. Hopefully we can finish it soon. (I finished the book by myself) I love the sniffs, they smell really tasty! I left this book at my friends house, so I hope I get it back! It's MINE!!! But... this wine book will make a great gift for any wine lover, expert, or someone like me, who is still learning. This would also make a great coffee table book. The map insert is absolutely adorable and helpful. Kudos to the author for making a fun, funny, scratch-n-sniff book that is filled with accurate information. P.S. I saw this book on sale at *another store*, I thought to check desertcart, glad I did. The book came packed, no wear or scratches on front, sniffs in tact inside, and plastic wrap in the back w/ insert intact. Perfect quality A+! Review: Wine Essentials for Babies - I was going to say Wine Essential for Dummies. But really the way it's illustrated and the introduction of simple concepts as a board book, it's more like "For Babies", besides most people aren't dummies, they are just blank slates. I own a restaurant and enoteca. I am buying this book for all my employees and to sell to my customers. It presents the essential elements of wine succinctly illustrated on 24 hard board pages. Even if you can' smell, this book works as a basic primer about wine. I have been to all day seminars that don't cover this material as pointedly as this book. Richard Betts takes a complex subject and turns into ideas so simple that even a baby would enjoy this book. It's possible to be a som at the age of three with this book.;) That kid would know more about wine without even tasting it than most of the waitstaff I've met. I am betting I can use this book to train even my dense waiter so that he can appear to be an "expert". ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #24,718 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #84 in eBook Readers | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,111 Reviews | ## Images ![The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide To Becoming A Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81KDDlkrP1L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Super Cute and Accurate. *by M***K on March 9, 2014* My friend is definitely a wine snob/lover... so I thought this was a cute book to read and share with him. He was laughing the whole time I read from it. Hopefully we can finish it soon. (I finished the book by myself) I love the sniffs, they smell really tasty! I left this book at my friends house, so I hope I get it back! It's MINE!!! But... this wine book will make a great gift for any wine lover, expert, or someone like me, who is still learning. This would also make a great coffee table book. The map insert is absolutely adorable and helpful. Kudos to the author for making a fun, funny, scratch-n-sniff book that is filled with accurate information. P.S. I saw this book on sale at *another store*, I thought to check amazon, glad I did. The book came packed, no wear or scratches on front, sniffs in tact inside, and plastic wrap in the back w/ insert intact. Perfect quality A+! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wine Essentials for Babies *by M***Y on October 31, 2013* I was going to say Wine Essential for Dummies. But really the way it's illustrated and the introduction of simple concepts as a board book, it's more like "For Babies", besides most people aren't dummies, they are just blank slates. I own a restaurant and enoteca. I am buying this book for all my employees and to sell to my customers. It presents the essential elements of wine succinctly illustrated on 24 hard board pages. Even if you can' smell, this book works as a basic primer about wine. I have been to all day seminars that don't cover this material as pointedly as this book. Richard Betts takes a complex subject and turns into ideas so simple that even a baby would enjoy this book. It's possible to be a som at the age of three with this book.;) That kid would know more about wine without even tasting it than most of the waitstaff I've met. I am betting I can use this book to train even my dense waiter so that he can appear to be an "expert". ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ When the book is not a gift... *by P***Y on August 2, 2014* Most of the reviews have described this book as a great gift but I actually wanted it as learning tool. I am a newbie to the world of wine and I'm trying to improve my palate. I don't mind that it looks like a child's pop-up book because the information is very good. For example, I didn't realize that only certain red-color fruits are found in red wines, that is, the author explains that you won't find lemon or pineapple in red wines. This is news to me because I thought any fruit aroma was game to appear in any wines. Narrowing the field for me helps, but this is where the author stops short! On the page where he talks about red wine, there is an illustration of the fruits and then the scratch and sniff thing, but not one mention of the fruits! There are illustrations of cherries and what looks like strawberries, but not one fruit is mentioned by name, even though the title of this section is "What fruit do you smell in red wine?" It would have been nice to be able to name some of the fruits. By far the most disappointing part is the scratch and sniff. They were just too faint to get any sense of what I should be smelling. If the picture weren't there, you'd have little idea what you were smelling. With many of the illustrations in the book there are quarter-size, clear stickers on top that supposedly carries the aroma. At first I thought I was supposed to remove the stickers and the smell would be underneath, but I think there would have been instructions if that were true. Not every illustration has a sniffer. In all, these are the aromas that are available in this book: pear, mixed fruit, red fruit, black fruit, stone fruit, another pear, vanilla, dill, dirt, leather, bacon, butter, and grass. Towards the end Mr. Betts talks about, and there are illustrations for what to look for in faulty wine such as wet dog smell, burnt rubber and mold. Where are those sniffers? It's like teaching bad words in a foreign language class -- you need to know the bad stuff in order to recognize them when they occur. I have a lot of respect for this area of expertise especially after I saw the documentary, "Somm". The information in this book is very clear and arranged in a way that makes the wine tasting journey not so vast and never-ending. Mr. Betts says that all wines fall into four main categories and the explanation of terroir is clear. I appreciate the different and big fonts, the colors and the illustrations. But I was actually a serious purchaser of this book for myself since my palate is so poor; I actually want to identify the gooseberries (inside book joke) someday. I've purchased other wine books of course and I'm taking an online CSW class (living in a very small Southern town, no wine tastings here!). I hope he comes out with a second edition! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/323484-the-essential-scratch-and-sniff-guide-to-becoming-a-wine](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/323484-the-essential-scratch-and-sniff-guide-to-becoming-a-wine) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-10-18*