Description
Including excerpts from novels, short fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, Wine Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhône in a chapter from his classic Adventures on the Wine Route. In an excerpt from Between Meals, long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form--and discovers a very good rosé from just west of the Rhone. Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco, and Brunello vintages from an eccentric celebrity. In real life, and over half a century ago, Jewish-Czech writer and gourmet Joseph Wechsberg visits the medieval Château d'Yquem to sample different years of the "roi des vins" alongside a French connoisseur who had his first taste of wine at age four.
Also showcasing an iconic scene from Rex Pickett's Sideways and work by Jancis Robinson, Benjamin Wallace, and McInerney himself, this is an essential volume for any disciple of Bacchus.
Product Details
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Publish Date | November 06, 2018 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780802128836 |
| Dimensions | 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.6 inches | 1.4 pounds |
Reviews
Praise for Wine Reads:
"Delightful...these pieces and persons are delicious to rediscover." --Bookpage
"McInerney lovingly curates a collection of pieces [and] displays a keen, well-trained literary eye...For wine enthusiasts and newcomers alike, a sharp gathering of writing about wine's multidimensional, occasionally subversive pleasures." --Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Jay McInerney:
"The best wine writer in America."--Salon, on The Juice
"As bracing as high-acid Riesling."--Washington Post, on A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar
"His wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty and his literary references impeccable."--New York Times, on Bacchus and Me
"Brilliant, witty, comical and often shamelessly candid."--Robert M. Parker, on Bacchus and Me
"Splendid vino vignettes [that] pique both curiosity and thirst."--Entertainment Weekly, on A Hedonist in the Cellar
"An immensely pleasurable and literate splash in to McInerney's favorite glass over the last decade."--Daily Beast, on The Juice
"A whirlwind tour of the wine world with a wry companion who is clearly at home and enjoying the subject."--Danny Meyer, on Bacchus and Me
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