Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing

Country & Townhouse's Best Book for Christmas, 2018A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney - bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden - selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine.Including excerpts from novels, short fiction, memoir and narrative nonfiction, Wine Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhone, while long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form. Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello vintages from an eccentric celebrity, and writer and gourmet Joseph Wechsberg visits the medieval Chateau d'Yquem to sample different years of the roi des vins.Also showcasing an iconic scene from Rex Pickett's Sideways and work by Jancis Robinson, Roald Dahl, Auberon Waugh and McInerney himself, this is an essential volume for any disciple of Bacchus.

Summary

From celebrated novelist Jay McInerney, whose extensive writing on wine has been called 'crisp, stylish and very funny' (New York Times Book Review), comes an delectable collection of great writing about wine

Product details

• Authors: Jay McInerney, McInerney Jay
• Assisted by: Jay McInerney (Editor)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781611854930
• ISBN: 978-1-61185-493-0
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; COOKING / Methods / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, chemistry, Food & society, Food and drink: alcoholic beverages, General cookery and recipes, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Bartending & Cocktails, Winemaking technology, Food and beverage technology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General