How to Drink a Glass of Wine
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New Zealand has become one of the world's great wine-drinking and producing countries. After six years as a top wine writer, John Saker has blended a thousand impressions, delicious experiences and startled taste buds into an engrossing guide to the world's most loved - and debated - beverage. A glass of wine is the simplest of pleasures - elixir of love, soothing balm, forger of friendships and, according to novelist Ernest Hemingway, the greatest sensory enjoyment you can buy. Yet wine is also an enigma - the product of good fruit gone bad, an edgy mosaic of smells, tastes and even textures, and a huge international business with fierce rivalries. |
Reviews, interviews, author events
"If you're going to read only one book about wine, make it this one. And if you've read them all, try this as a marvellous refresher." - Simon Wilson, Cuisine"However much you know about wine, this book is a must" - Terry Dunleavy, New Zealand Wine Grower
'How to Drink a Glass of Wine' succeeds in offering the reader the vigorous and exciting sensations that we expect from top wines and top wine books' says MARTIN BROWN (www.wine-searcher.com).
'Brimming with entertaining anecdote, it will be a happy top-up to the wine-lover's bookshelf.' Saker, Brown says, also writes confidently about the economic dynamics driving today's international wine trade.
More advance praise has come from JACQUES LARDIERE, wine-maker at Burgundy's famous 150-year-old Maison Louis Jadot winery: 'To decide to love wine as John Saker does is to discover it in the fullest sense - to add joy and intelligence to one's life, rather than just years.
'Saker loves language, and knows how to use it; his touch is delicate and sure, ' ANNE FRENCH says in New Zealand Books
Check out Awa's own interview with John here.
Product details |
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| ISBN: | 9780958253826 |
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| Pages: | 108 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size/Weight: | 198 x 129 mm |
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| Published: | July 2005 |
| Author(s): | John Saker |