A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (repost)
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine By Jay McInerney
Publisher: Vin tage 2007 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1400096375 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Vin tage 2007 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1400096375 | PDF | 2 MB
Those who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Cellar, a collection of his essays originally published in House & Garden. Whether talking about a California chardonnay ("like a Ginsu blade concealed in a peach"); the wines of the Cote Rotie ("like Fitzgerald, [its] reputation was almost moribund at mid-century"); or the super Valpolicellas of Italian vintner Giuseppe Quintarelli ("his [wines] should be opened only in the presence of gods and stinky cheeses"), McInerney brings a novelist's gift and idiosyncratic wit to his personal investigations, which touch on the Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, the "forgotten whites" of Bordeaux, new developments in the wines of Chile and Argentina, spirits like Armagnac and artisinal champagnes, and much more.