wine book
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In Plain Sight (Uncovering Wes Walker’s “Hidden Napa Valley”)
The first thing that you think (if you’re me, anyway) about the late Wes Walker’s Hidden Napa Valley ($19.95 from Welcome Books, I received an advanced sample copy of the newly updated edition) is how unexpectedly small it is. At 7 and 1/4 inches square,…
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“If I was anywhere but rural Italy, I’d feel like a total scumbag” (Guest Post by Matthew Gavin Frank)
Following is a guest post from Chicago-born poet and food-and-travel writer Matthew Gavin Frank, who is, by the account of any reasonably sane person, a very interesting guy. Frank has, at turns, held the following jobs: proprietor of an Alaskan breakfast joint menu designer for…
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What Price Bordeaux: Bordeaux’s Loss of Identity By The Numbers
Master of Wine and scientist Benjamin Lewin’s non-fiction book What Price Bordeaux has a title that, unlike many non-fictional works, is meant to convey a series of meanings or themes that are touched on at some point in the body of the work itself. In…
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Tastes of Things Before My Eyes: The Beauty of Wine, Under A Microscope
Just when you thought that wine has been analyzed form pretty much every angle possible, along comes Philadelphia native, biochemist PhD and former medical research scientist Sondra Barrett. Sondra’s journey to wine seems spiraling and circuitous: Originally a researcher on human leukemias, she was asked…
