Michael Bywater, Kathleen Burk

Is This Bottle Corked? (eBook, ePUB)

The Secret Life of Wine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We've all come across those suave, confident, and all-so-knowing books that tell us precisely what to drink with which dish, how to swirl, sniff, slosh, and pronounce on our wine, and, above all, how to impress our friends and business associates with our expertise. Well, this is not one of those books. Is This Bottle Corked? is something different: a book that poses-and answers-the really important questions about wine. •What was Falstaff drinking when he called for more sack? •What was actually drunk at Plato's Symposium? •When is rot "noble"? •Who was the first American connoisseur of wine-it wasn't George Washington, but speaking of the general, what was his favorite wine? •Why on earth do wine connoisseurs talk like that? •Was Pliny the Elder the first Robert Parker? •Why do we drink to forget-and why doesn't it work? These and many other intriguing, amusing, and curious questions are answered within, guaranteeing the reader a "Yes, but did you know . . .?" for every occasion at which a cork is drawn. Best read with a glass of aged German riesling, or perhaps a soft, consoling Constantia (recommended by Jane Austen for heartbreak and, to boot, gout) or maybe even a glass of St. Anne's Rhubarb and Ginger Wine, this book is as much for bon vivants and those of us who just enjoy a good bottle or two as for the committed oenophile. Simply open, pour, and relax.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307462923
• Artikelnr.: 39249215

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN BURK was born and raised in California and, as the daughter of a grape farmer, has wine in her bones. While at the University of California at Berkeley, she traveled around Napa Valley tasting wine, riding pillion on a 750cc motorcycle. At Oxford she discovered European wines, to which she is devoted. She has a Diploma in Wine and Spirits, writes for the World of Fine Wine, and is a judge for the International Wine and Spirits Competition. She is the Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College London and the author of Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning. MICHAEL BYWATER is an author, broadcaster, and culture critic. He writes for the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, and a host of other periodicals. He is also a regular broadcaster for the BBC, development executive at Studio Lambert TV in London, and intermittently teaches tragedy at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost, and Where Did It Go? and Big Babies: Or: Why Can't We Just Grow Up? He is currently writing a book on male friendship, A Fine Bromance.