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Book Review: Two New Takes on Natural Wine
Review by Tim Patterson. Alongside the profusion of wine bars and wine weeks focused on so-called “natural wines”–wines made with minimal winemaker intervention and chemical adulteration– two new books...
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Book Review: The Drops of God: Vol 1, by Tadashi Agi
I’m tickled by the idea of wine featuring prominently in popular entertainment. I think a lot of wine lovers got a kick out of Sideways. Regardless of what they thought of the movie overall, there were...
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Book Review: Wine Wars by Mike Veseth
Review by Tim Patterson. A big part of wine’s allure is that it is so many different things: a source of alcohol, a source of pleasure, a gateway for entry into the mystical, the erotic, the...
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Book Review: The Chateauneuf-du-Pape Wine Book by Harry Karis
It’s not entirely clear to me which is more remarkable: the fact that before this book was published there was no definitive guide to one of France’s most unique and historical wine regions, or the...
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Book Review: A Toast to Bargain Wines by George Taber
Review by Tim Patterson Books and articles about bargain wines are a dime a dozen–check that, a nickel a dozen. And like many forms of wine recommendations, they tend to be frustrating, too, since the...
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Book Review: Wine Grapes by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz
Why would any wine lover want to know something about more than one thousand different grape varieties? For the same reason that wine lover would want to taste them. A certain class of wine...
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Book Review: The Latest in Wine and Food Pairing
Review by Tim Patterson. If you find the subject of food and wine pairing confusing, intimidating or irritating, read Francois Chartier’s Taste Buds and Molecules and then Tim Hanni’s Why You Like the...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Current Wine Revolution
What does the world look like to those in the midst of a quiet revolution? As with the frog in a pot of slowly heating water, sometimes change can be hard to see when it doesn’t arrive with a clap of...
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Book Review: The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert
Review By Stella Fong The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert will, at first, appeal to the reader’s inner child. With thick cardboard pages, great illustrations, and scratch...
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Wine and Words in Three Volumes
I happened last week to be eating lunch at a small cafe that had a wine store and bar attached. The only available table for me to occupy while scarfing down my panini during a break from my fifth day...
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Book Review: Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter
Review By Camille Berry Domaine Romanée-Conti’s wines are perhaps the most famous in the world, and amongst the most expensive. The highly allocated bottles are reasonably scarce and cause a craze...
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Book Review: But First, Champagne, by David White
Six months ago, if you asked me what book to get if you wanted to learn more about Champagne, I would have been hard pressed to answer the question. Lucky for us, someone asked my friend and fellow...
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Book Review: Natural Wine for the People, by Alice Feiring
Review by Michael Woeste Alice Feiring wants to make a natural wine believer out of you. The woman who might be called the mother of the movement has been making her case for natural wines for many...
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Book Review: Palmento by Robert Camuto
About a month ago, newly immersed in this thing we now call self-isolation, the internets brought me a ray of sunshine. Or at least something that brought a smile to my lips and sent me down the grimy...
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Book Review: The New Wines of Mount Etna by Benjamin North Spencer
Let’s get the disclaimer right out of the way, shall we? I positively adore the wines of Mount Etna, the very active volcano that occupies the northeast corner of Sicily. I have rarely met a Nerello...
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Book Review: Winemakers Writ Large
How do you capture the spirit of an entire wine region? This isn’t just an academic question, it’s something that many people wrestle with, from regional wine associations to those who make a living...
View ArticleBook Review: Amber Revolution by Simon J. Woolf
I’m slightly hazy (unfiltered, perhaps?) on the precise date I first enjoyed an orange wine. I’m guessing it was around 2005 or so. The particular wine, though—that is as sharp and defined in my...
View ArticleBook Review: Drinking With the Valkyries, by Andrew Jefford
There are wine books to be referenced. There are wine books to be studied with intensity. There are wine books to be read. And then there are wine books to be savored. It took me a long time to begin...
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Book Review: The Wine Bible, 3rd Edition
I’ve now been writing about wine for 19 years, and the more time that goes on, the list of things that I don’t know gets longer and longer. That would be true if nothing ever changed in the world of...
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The World’s Greatest Wine Reference Book Gets a Major Overhaul
This article may be filed under the Book Reviews section of Vinography, but it isn’t exactly a book review. That’s because I’m not exactly a neutral party when it comes to the 5th edition of the...
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