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A carafe of red / Gerald Asher.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asher, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy vivid evocations of people and places. Asher puts wine in its context by taking the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with the carafe at his elbow. In his introduction, Asher says, "Wine . . . draws on everything and leads everywhere." Whether the subject is a supposedly simple red wine shared in a Parisian café or a Napa Valley Cabernet tasted with its vintner, every essay in A Carafe of Red is as pleasurable as the wines themselves.
- Contents:
- A carafe of red
- Storm in a champagne flute
- Cote retie and Condrieu: drinking with the ghosts of Pliny and Columella
- Cotes de Castillon: a Bordeaux wine reborn
- Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrive!
- Armagnac: the spirit of D'Artagnan
- Les chevaliers du Tastevin
- Jerez de la frontera: sherry and tapas
- Malmsey: a Greek classic
- Barbaresco: a glimpse of paradise
- Priorato: a heady success story
- School days on the Rhine
- Franconia: going for Baroque
- California cabernet sauvignon
- A morning tasting with Joe Heitz
- Beaulieu Vineyard's Georges de Latour cabernet sauvignon private reserve
- Santa Cruz mountains: ingenuity and tenacity
- Zinfandel: California's own
- Wine and food: the myth of a perfect match
- Chardonnay: buds, twigs, and clones
- Haut-Brion: a most particular taste
- Judgment of Paris: California's triumph
- A silent revolution: organic and biodynamic wines
- A memorable wine
- Missouri: return of the native
- Spreading the word: books on wine
- Simple pleasures: warm bread and hot chocolate.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613369703
- 9781283369701
- 1283369702
- 9780520951365
- 0520951360
- OCLC:
- 768081847
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