The Juice - Vinous Veritas

Zusatztext “It is a pleasure to see the wine world through a novelist’s playful eyes! and to feel the infectious joy he finds in great wines! places and personalities from around the world.” —Eric Asimov! The New York Times   “As bracing as high-acid Riesling . . . McInerney the novelist! with his eye for detail and smart aleck wit! is never far from the page! [and] he's able to get inside each destination and suss out what makes it interesting.” — The Washington Post Book World   “[McInerney] provides some of the finest writing on the subject of wine. . . . Brilliant! witty! comical! and often shamelessly provocative.” —Robert M. Parker! Jr.   “McInerney has become the best wine writer in America.” — Salon.com   “To the fruity! buttery world of wine writing! there’s nothing else like it.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution   “We’re fortunate that Jay McInerney has chosen to shower his immense gifts on a new source of pleasure: the grape. . . . He’s a wry companion who is clearly at home with and enjoying the subject.” —Danny Meyer Informationen zum Autor Jay McInerney Klappentext A generous new collection by the acclaimed novelist who, according to Salon, is also "the best wine writer in America."For more than a decade, Jay McInerney's vinous essays have been praised by restaurateurs ("educational and delicious at the same time" -Mario Batali), by esteemed critics ("brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly candid and provocative" -Robert Parker), and by the media ("McInerney's wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty, and his literary references impeccable" -The New York Times). Here, in pieces originally published in House & Garden and The Wall Street Journal, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it, with the trademark style and expertise that prompted the James Beard Foundation to grant him the M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing in 2006. Introduction It all began with Hemingway, as so many things do. Specifically with The Sun Also Rises , or, as the Brits call it, Fiesta . The latter title being apposite, because part of what I carried away from that book in my youth was the sense that drinking wine was cool and sophisticated. And let’s face it, this is one of the reasons we read books, especially in our youth, particularly books by Hemingway and Kerouac and Lawrence Durrell: to find out how to live and how to pose and where to travel and what to eat and drink and smoke along the way. Everybody in Hemingway’s first novel is drinking wine. Not long after my vicarious adventures in Pam- plona, this sense of wine as an appurtenance of the well-lived life was reinforced by Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited , with Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte picturesquely draining the cel- lar at that estate over the course of a summer. I was so fixated on the wine and the scenery that I don’t think I bothered to grasp the nature of their friendship. Not very Hemingwayesque, but again, for some reason I remember the wine . . . The fact that wine had no place on my parents’ suburban dining table seemed to confirm its consumption as a mark of sophistication. They and their friends drank cocktails—martinis, Manhattans, old-fashioneds, and stingers. And when they drank enough of them, they behaved badly, especially when they were in their stingers period, though this didn’t strike me as romantic or chic. Much later I realized they were acting like the people in John Cheever’s stories, once I finally got around to reading them; in fact it took me years to appreciate his writing, in part because his characters resembled my parents and their friends. Hemingway was a great fan of Spanish rosado , which might be why, on my very first date, at the age of sixt...

Product details

• Authors: Jay McInerney
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2013
• EAN: 9780307948052
• ISBN: 978-0-307-94805-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subject: Guides > Food & drink > Drinks