Posts Tagged ‘book’
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
After Best Sommelier of Italy in 20 years, Enrico Bernardo became World’s Best Sommelier in 2004 to 27 years. In writing this book, he wanted us to convey his passion for wine and some of his knowledge. In this context, the book is divided into two main parts: one on the art of wine tasting and a second where he reviewed the great vineyards of the world.
The approach of Enrico Bernardo tasting is particularly methodical and orderly, witness this long chapter on visual inspection, which opens the book. It is even rare to see this first phase of the tasting so finely detailed, a first phase that many amateurs tend to overlook (me included …)
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Whether the substance or form, this book is a real success, and is the ideal book to create envy. We note first presentation. Superbly illustrated, it is a delight for the eyes, like a promise of enchantment future of our taste buds … Moreover, the structure of the book, always a double page on a given topic, easy to read in part.
The first third is devoted to the general approach of the tasting, including how to approach the wines according to their type. Far too didactic lectures, Pierre Casamayor has found a tone that is both lively and surprisingly practical.
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
In literature on the tasting, the book most often cited as a reference is unquestionably “Taste” of Emile Peynaud (available from the same publisher, now in its 4th edition).
The publisher has released a consumer version, accessible mainly in terms of price, as the share resumed publishing seems important, and the reader quickly understands why the book is so often described as an “unavoidable”.
The emphasis is on sensory approach to tasting: more detail than any technique, the authors put us in a condition that we can move forward. As such, the title of the chapter “Difficulties of tasting and mistakes of the senses” speaks for itself.
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Title: Vintage Wine
Author: Michael Broadbent
ISBN: 0316859648
Publisher: Little, Brown
Price: £30 (buy at Amazon -20%)
Subtitled “50 Years of Tasting the World’s Finest Wines”, this new book immediately soars to the top of my wine-lover’s Chrsitmas present list. The irrepressible Michael Broadbent shows no sign of slowing down merely because he is in his 76th year: he is still a Director of Christie’s wine auctions, still travels incessantly around the world to taste the finest wines, and still communtes across London by bicycle. This book is a wonderful guide to 50-years worth of fine wine, region by region, wine by wine, but it is also warm and human, with a delightful anecdotes and wine wisdom sprinkled throughout.
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Title: Oz Clarke’s Pocket Wine Books Wallet 2003
Author: Oz Clarke
ISBN: 0316859621
Publisher: Little, Brown
Price: £10
A clutch of annual wine guides vie for attention at Christmas time each year, from Hugh Johnson, Robert Joseph and others. Oz Clarke’s Pocket Wine Book has always been the most lively of the lot; it makes up in readability for anything it lacks in sheer volume of information. Johnson may be the definitive, all-encompassing work, but Clarke has more opinion and the more entertaining style. The 2003 book is a slightly larger format which allows longer entries and liberal use of black and white bottle and label shots.
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Title: Wine and War
Authors: Donald and Petie Kladstrup
ISBN: 0340766786
Publisher: Coronet
Price: £7.99
As a complete change to my usual diet of wine text books comes this life-affirming book that looks at the role played by France’s vignerons in the second world war. When Hitler’s personal cellar was opened at the end of the war, it contained half a million bottles of France’s very best wines, from Latour, Lafite, et al.
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Title: Greek Wines – A Comprehensive Guide
Author: Geoff Adams
ISBN: 0954203305
Publisher: Winemaster Publishing
Geoff Adams is clearly a man possessed by the charms of Greek wines. His exhaustively well-informed book has just been published, and is aimed specifically at the UK market with comprehensive lists of UK stockists and importers of those wines currently available in this market. Greek winemaking has made huge strides in recent years, and many consumers have already discovered how good modern Greek wines can be through innovative retailers like Oddbins.
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Title: Grapes and Wines
Authors: Oz Clarke and Margaret Rand
ISBN: 0316857262
Publisher: Little, Brown
Price: £25.00
I am delighted to have discovered this book: it offers a fresh and fascinating approach to educating and informing about wine, which with so many other books on the subject, is no mean feat. Clarke and Rand’s focus – the beginning, end and middle of their story – is the grape. Luxuriating over 320 full-colour pages in this definitive work, the world of wine is explored from winemaking to cellaring, and from recommended producers to food-matching, but all centered around the raw material of wine.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
The approach the author was initially create 14 families of wines (eg circles, the wealthy, the complex, fruity, …) and then proposes a series of recipes that these wines can accompany with happiness. Each recipe has a full page, without pictures but with a clear layout and comfortable.
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Jacques Orhon is a sommelier for over 20 years. It is also a columnist on Canadian television. His book on matching food and wine is here in its 3rd edition, revised and re-updated.
His approach is to create groupings based on similarities of ingredients, formulations and colors. For each of these families of dishes, Jacques Orhon goes after a short narrative advise us 10-20 wines, sorted by price. It goes even further by reproducing the labels 6 producers especially recommended that constitute what he calls his “first choice”. It has selected 500 wines out. The book ends with the presentation of 50 recipes concocted by chefs for a specific wine, it has adequate preparations tasty and easy to achieve.
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After Best Sommelier of Italy in 20 years, Enrico Bernardo became World’s Best Sommelier in 2004 to 27 years. In writing this book, he wanted us to convey his passion for wine and some of his knowledge. In this context, the book is divided into two main parts: one on the art of wine tasting and a second where he reviewed the great vineyards of the world.
