Table of Contents

• • Introduction - i: Introduction
• Chapter - 1: Fridge-door Whites and In-the-rack Reds
• Chapter - 2: Back to (Wine) School
• Chapter - 3: Party Time
• Chapter - 4: Fireside Reds
• Chapter - 5: Store-cupboard SOS
• Chapter - 6: Dinner Time - TV, Kitchen or Posh
• Chapter - 7: The Big Ones - Christmas and New Year
• Chapter - 8: Booze-free Daze
• Chapter - 9: Booze-free Daze
• Chapter - 10: Half-term Hols
• Chapter - 11: Sunday Roast
• Chapter - 12: Grown-up Occasions
• Chapter - 13: The School Fete (Accompli)
• Chapter - 14: In the (Day or Night) Garden
• • Section - ii: The Knackered Mother's Must-have Wine List
  • Section - iii: The Knackered Mother's Must-have Nothing to do with Wine List
  • Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements
  • Index - v: Index

Promotional Information

A knackered mother-friendly wine guide with insider tips on how to choose the right wine for every occasion. Strictly no insipid wines allowed.

About the Author

Helen McGinn is the author of award-winning wine blog The Knackered Mother's Wine Club and three books including The Knackered Mother's Wine Guide, Teetotal Tipples and Homemade Cocktails. She has a weekly wine column in the Daily Mail and regularly appears on television as a wine expert. She's won numerous awards for her blog, including Fortnum & Mason's Online Drink Writer of the Year and Red magazine's Best Blogger. Helen spent almost a decade sourcing wines from around the world as a supermarket wine buyer before spending the next half-decade pregnant. She is married with three children, too many dogs and a weird cat. Her desert island wine would be a bottle of 1988 vintage champagne. Her desert island dish would not be left-over fish fingers.

Reviews

Love love love this book. It doesn't just simplify wine, it simplifies life. Essential reading.
*India Knight*

Raise a glass to this deliciously simple guide.
*Daily Mail*

Presented in a humorous, chatty style this book is an intelligent, hugely informative wine guide and McGinn is certainly well qualified to pass on advice.
*Daily Express*

Useful, interesting and very funny - every woman who owns a corkscrew or knows about screw-caps needs a copy of this book.
*Victoria Moore, author of The Wine Dine Dictionary*

Call it a wine book if you will. It's also a book about contemporary parenthood. I heartily recommend it.
*Jewish Chronicle*

Her accessible and entertaining guide takes us through a ‘school year’ of simple wine lessons from an autumn term of cosy fireside reds to a summer ‘love-in’ of fruity outdoor favourites.
*Lancashire Evening Post*