Unquenchable

by Maclean, Natalie

• ISBN13: 9780399537073
• ISBN10: 0399537074
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Tarcherperigree

Summary

We wine writers tend to be obsessive souls. How else can a person stay fascinated throughout a career with just one drink? Compare us to food writers: Over their lives, they'll encounter thousands of ingredients and ways of combining and cooking them. Wine, by contrast, is just fermented grapes. But it engages our primary senses-smell, taste, feel-in a way that is both hedonistic and cerebral. That's why I've spent the past several years traipsing around the world, visiting wineries, tasting their offerings, and searching for the world's best cheap wines. The narrative is as familiar as Arthur's quest for the grail and as naive as Dr. Seuss's plaintive search for the affirmative inAre You My Mother? With her signature sassy and conversational style, Natalie MacLean takes you on a whirlwind journey through the world of wine, searching for great taste at a low cost. Amply informed by MacLean's decade-long career as an award-winning wine writer, this engaging and enlightening book recounts her adventures with the most passionate personalities in some of the most gorgeous, off-beat places in the world-from the crazed vintner who explains his philosophy while speeding down the Autobahn to the Sicilian winemakers you don't want to disappoint with your tasting notes. Yet there's plenty to take away from her inspired recommendations for food pairing to lists of favorite value wines and vintners, plus plenty of pointers that will enhance your own drinking pleasure.

Table of Contents

A Nose for a Bargain: Opening Thoughts	p. xi
Beyond the Adventures	p. xvii
Sunday: The Wine Wizards of Oz	p. 1
Monday: The Unbearable Lightness of German Riesling	p. 41
Tuesday: Helicopters, Hawks, and Hellacious Ladybugs	p. 83
Wednesday: The Cape Crusaders of Africa	p. 123
Thursday: Vino Under the Volcano	p. 167
Friday: A Smoldering Liquid Tango	p. 201
Saturday: A Storm of Pleasure in Every Port	p. 235
Sunday: La Vie en Rose en Provence	p. 279
Drinking My Words: Closing-Time Comments	p. 317
Acknowledgments	p. 325
Index	p. 329
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