By billn on April 22, 2013
Just a few things to have caught my eye: Unaffordable wine And rather emphasising that point! Add a dash of said, unaffordable whites. I thought this guy (Brian Moore’s brother?) was freestyle rapping at first – sadly not – but could anyway be interesting… Enjoy…
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By billn on April 17, 2013
A review of an old book: www.raymondchanwinereviews.co.nz What a kind man – thank-you Raymond!
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By billn on March 18, 2013
Subtitled ‘How Phylloxera Transformed Wine’ Published by UCP. Buy from Amazon (eBook also available). If you want a novelette, a ripping who-dunnit of a phylloxera story, then perhaps this is not a volume to consider – you should go for this one. Here is a book written by a Professor of Philosophy but it seemed a little ‘dry’ in the opening pages as author, George Gale, recounted the differences between two philosophical schools of thought that considered whether phylloxera was the cause of thousands of vines dying, or whether the bug was simply a symptom of some other malady. Important enough stuff, as it delayed the focused search for a solution for years – but as mentioned a little dry. Thereafter I was hooked – [....]
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By billn on October 30, 2012
Published by UCP. Buy from Amazon (eBook also available). I’ve read the 250 pages of ‘Authentic Wine’ on and off, for about the last couple of months – and I’m so happy I did. NB, that’s 250 pages in a relatively small font – so it could easily have been 400 pages in a different format – this is, after-all, no pocket-sized book, weighing-in at somewhere between A4 and A5 size. I assume that writing a book such as this is far from straight-forward, not from a content perspective, but rather because there were two authors – Jamie Goode and Sam Harrop – and I’m really left wondering how they put together such a seamless piece of work. I have to assume that they have [....]
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By billn on October 18, 2012
Not the worst ‘critique‘ (good thing!) but one I’d been waiting a while for…
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By billn on September 19, 2012
For those with an interest, there’s a new book been published about the Hospices de Beaune – in theory with new material from the archives. At almost 500 pages you will have to work hard to find the new material, if for no other reason than the book is published in French! Looks like a true reference work… (No affiliation, etcetera…) Oh, and for your interest – and a bit of fun – how about trading-up?
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By billn on September 1, 2012
Sometimes things all come together – or perhaps, better said, all at once. I could have split this over three separate posts but why(…?) I’ve just loved the working my way through the first edition of ‘wine magazine’ Repast. I usually have a long line of ‘worthy’ books to work my way through, but rarely do I just sit their chuckling-away, having to read out passages to all and sundry – but this is just such a publication. Written by Jeremy Holmes, an Australian wine importer, together with his wife and photographer Heidi. Just over 160 pages are filled for your entertainment, not just with words but images of mouth-watering dishes. Actually you could knock-off the whole thing in a couple of hours – but [....]
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By billn on August 31, 2012
Published by UCP. Buy from Amazon. I’ve had this book ‘waiting in-line’ for a while now, but what a lovely introduction to the writings of Gerald Asher it is. Although the book was published only last year, the vast majority of the short essays were originally published in the 1980s and ’90s when Asher was a ‘house writer’ for the magazine Gourmet. Largely the text is in the original form and then post-scripted by ‘x is now owned by y‘ updates, only the very last entry hails from recent times – a piece on ‘Rutherford’ which was originally published in the World of Fine Wine in 2010. Enclosed within the book’s 260 pages are 27 essays, split into three subject areas: France, Other European Wine [....]
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By billn on August 17, 2012
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By billn on August 3, 2012
FWOB, kindly reviewed by Clive Coates MW – to him, my thanks… [Archived] Also ‘new in’ today, another excellent piece from Vinography.
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By billn on July 20, 2012
Published by UCP. I finally get the time to place my fingers on the keyboard, about two weeks after I’ve actually finished this book – I’m already a third of the way through a follow-up volume… ‘Reading Between The Wines’ (with the addition of a little, but not too much, writing) sounds just like my current existence – so this must be a book written for me – and largely it is. Terry Theise (that would be pronounced ‘Thizer’ if his German connections follow through…), or TT, as I will from now-on refer to him, certainly has a gift for writing; though his American roots shout out from the pages as he ‘kibitzes, schvitzes and schmaltzes (and many other words with ‘zeds’ (zees) in them [....]
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By billn on July 11, 2012
Even though it’s not possible (for me) to read my name! The Japanese edition:
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