Chart your course through the world of wine and fine-tune your wine sense with this portable guided notebook.

• Concise information details everything you need to know to rate wines, followed by interactive fill-in pages for tasting and judging wines.

• Prompts guide you to create useful tasting notes that include essential details of vintage, price, producer, region and country, grape variety, when and where tasted.

• Evaluate each wine's appearance, nose, taste, finish, and overall impression.

• A handy pocket inside the back cover pocket holds notes, labels, wine-related articles, business cards, more.

• A ribbon bookmark keeps your place.

• An elastic closure keeps your notes secure.

• Durable hardcover binding.

• Journal measures 4-1/4'' wide x 5-3/4'' high.

• 192 pages.

Doug Paulding, a well-known wine writer, travels extensively and has written on wines and spirits from all over the world. Says Doug, ''If it is made with inspiration and care, I am interested.'' Visit Doug at www.dougpaulding.com.