Red, White, and Drunk All Over A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

by MacLean, Natalie

• ISBN13: 9781582346496
• ISBN10: 1582346496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

In this bodice-ripping wine book that got widespread and excellent reviews in hardcover, multiple James Beard and IACP award-winning writer Natalie MacLean's journey through the international world of wine is the perfect companion for neophytes and wine aficionados alike. Natalie travels to the ancient vineyards of Burgundy to uncover the secrets of the pinot noir, the "heartbreak grape" from which some of the most coveted wines in the world are made. She visits the labyrinthine cellars of Champagne to examine the myths and the mystique of bubbly. She pulls on sturdy boots to help with the harvest at the vineyards of iconoclastic Californian winemaker Randall Grahm and goes undercover as sommelier for a night in a five-star restaurant with a wine list the thickness of a telephone directory. She looks at the influence of powerful critics, notably Robert Parker and Jancis Robinson, invites readers into her dining room for an informal wine tasting, and compares collecting notes at a bacchanalian dinner with novelist Jay McInerney.

Author Biography

Natalie MacLean is an accredited sommelier and has won four James Beard Journalism Awards, including the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award; five IACP Bert Greene Awards; four Association of Food Journalists Awards; and four North America Travel Journalists Association Awards; and she was named the World’s Best Drink Writer. Her work has appeared in Best Food Writing, and she has written for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.   More than 65,000 wine lovers subscribe to her free E-Newsletter at www.Nataliemaclean.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Making of a Wine Lover	p. 1
The Good Earth	p. 10
Harvesting Dreams	p. 43
The Merry Widows of Mousse	p. 76
Purple Prose with a Bite	p. 112
A Tale of Two Wine Stores	p. 138
A Glass Act	p. 175
Partners at the Table	p. 196
Undercover Sommelier	p. 222
Big City Bacchus	p. 249
Wine Meets Its Toughest Matches	p. 272
Afterword: A Finish That Begins Again	p. 297
Acknowledgments	p. 300
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