The Battle for Wine and Love

The Battle for Wine and Love
Author: Alice Feiring
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 015603476X

An “entertaining and passionate” connoisseur tours the vineyards of Europe and California, arguing for an old-fashioned appreciation of authenticity (The New York Times). The drastic effects that influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has had on the winemaking industry are best described as wine Parkerization. Many vintners are leaving old techniques behind and turning to chemistry and technology in order to please Parker’s palate. This led to the disappearance of James Beard Foundation Award–winning writer Alice Feiring’s favorite wines—and she was determined to learn why. In a one-woman crusade that will have you wondering what exactly is in your glass, Feiring argues against the tyranny of homogenization, Big Wine, consultants, and, of course, Parker’s infamous one hundred-point scoring system. Traveling through the vineyards of the Loire and Champagne, to Piedmont and Spain, she searches for authentic Barolo, the last old-style Rioja, and the tastiest terroir-driven Champagnes. Feiring reveals what goes into the average bottle—the reverse osmosis, the yeasts and enzymes, the sawdust and oak chips—and why she doesn’t find much to drink in California. She introduces rebel winemakers who are embracing old-fashioned techniques and making wines with individuality and soul. And finally Feiring explains what love’s really got to do with it all, in a delightful read for anyone who truly appreciates the good things in life.

Monseigneur le Vin

Monseigneur le Vin
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0789338009

Monseigneur le Vin is a distinctly cheeky but highly informative French introduction to the art of drinking wine. Originally published in French in 1927 as part of a set of promotional books for French wine distributor Nicolas, Monseigneur le Vin is a lovely illustrated jewel of a wine primer brought back into print. The book is perfectly relevant to today's wine lovers, charmingly presented: wine information like bouquet, color, and taste profile is essentially the same today, and Montorgueil's reverence for wine is delivered with an élan and is oh-so-very French, with observations like "A full-bodied red wine wants to be laid on its side and made cozy." Delightful and informative, Monseigneur le Vin is sure to appeal to new and experienced wine lovers alike.

Le vin : de l'analyse à l'élaboration (6e éd.)

Le vin : de l'analyse à l'élaboration (6e éd.)
Author: DELANOE Dominique
Publisher: Lavoisier
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 2743064463

Acquérir le savoir-faire indispensable sur un marché mondial toujours plus exigeant. Le marché du vin est aujourd’hui mondial et sa commercialisation est soumise à de nombreuses contraintes techniques et réglementaires : constance des caractéristiques, stabilité parfaite du vin tout au long du circuit commercial, protection contre les malfaçons, sécurité du consommateur. La vinification constitue une technique que le viticulteur doit parfaitement maîtriser pour délivrer un produit de qualité. Pour répondre à ces exigences, Le vin – De l’analyse à l’élaboration présente les principaux contrôles et analyses à mettre en œuvre à chaque étape de la vinification. Un ouvrage centré sur la connaissance du produit à chaque stade de son élaboration. Actualisée sur la base de connaissances œnologiques et réglementaires récentes, cette nouvelle édition comprend : • une présentation des notions générales relatives aux analyses du vin, outil essentiel à la prise de décision lors de l’élaboration du produit ; • une étude détaillée des analyses à réaliser (contrôles de maturité, suivi de fermentation…) comprenant l’explication simple des phénomènes en cause, la description des méthodes d’analyse et d’interprétation des résultats ; • une revue des différents additifs ou composants impliqués dans la conservation et la stabilisation des vins ; • une synthèse des bonnes pratiques du viticulteur, qu’il s’agisse de l’application de la démarche HACCP, du respect de la réglementation en rappelant les pratiques œnologiques autorisées, ou de l’organisation de la cave. Résolument pédagogique, ce manuel pratique est le fruit de la riche expérience de ses auteurs, spécialistes reconnus dans l’enseignement et la mise en œuvre des sciences œnologiques. Le vin : de l’analyse à l’élaboration a été conçu pour : - les professionnels du vin : viticulteurs, œnologues, techniciens conseillers en production ou techniciens de laboratoires œnologiques, etc. - les étudiants en viticulture et en œnologie.

My Doctor, Wine

My Doctor, Wine
Author: Gaston Derys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2003
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780300101331

This delightful little volume, first published in French in 1936, extols the many joys and benefits of wine. Wine drinkers will take pleasure in Gaston Derys's quaint appreciation of the grape, and art lovers will admire Raoul Dufy's joyful watercolors. Reflecting the exuberance and elan of an earlier day, Derys takes us back to a time when the doctor's favored prescription was an amiable glass of wine. In Derys's ode to wine, here translated into English, we discover that the medicinal and therapeutic uses of wine are many: it assists in fighting typhoid, infant sicknesses, and diabetes; it exerts a positive effect on one's character, beauty, and creativity: and it lends a fortifying power to athletes and soldiers. Supported by the comments of French doctors as well as Dufy's beautifully reproduced paintings, Derys's argument to raise a glass of wine becomes pleasantly irrefutable.

Now Do You Know Where You Are

Now Do You Know Where You Are
Author: Dana Levin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1619322501

“Levin’s luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Dana Levin’s fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, “to be a messenger―to record whatever wanted to stream through.” Levin works in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions―convened by Levin’s own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality―balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future. “So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global, planetary, cosmic― // ‘Now do you know where you are?’” “Dana Levin is the modern-day master of the em-dash.”—New York Times Magazine "The book weaves in and out of prose, and it’s no wonder that the haibun is the generative form in these pages. A form invented by Basho so that he could move from the prose of his travelogues to the quick intensities of haiku, back and forth. Emily Dickinson does the same thing in her letters. And because this is a poet of the western United States—born outside of Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave, then two decades in Santa Fe, now in middle America, St. Louis—maybe it’s right to think of her work in terms of storm clouds: if the prose is an anvil cloud, the flash of poetry at the end is lightning.”—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney’s

The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass

The Dirty Guide to Wine: Following Flavor from Ground to Glass
Author: Alice Feiring
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1581575254

Discover new favorites by tracing wine back to its roots Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape, but everyone wants their next wine to be new and exciting. How to choose the right one? Award-winning wine critic Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape variety is important, a lot can be learned about wine by looking at the source: the ground in which it grows. A surprising amount of information about a wine’s flavor and composition can be gleaned from a region’s soil, and this guide makes it simple to find the wines you’ll love. Featuring a foreword by Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier, who contributed her vast knowledge throughout the book, The Dirty Guide to Wine organizes wines not by grape, not by region, not by New or Old World, but by soil. If you enjoy a Chardonnay from Burgundy, you might find the same winning qualities in a deep, red Rioja. Feiring also provides a clarifying account of the traditions and techniques of wine-tasting, demystifying the practice and introducing a whole new way to enjoy wine to sommeliers and novice drinkers alike.