Bluffer's Guide to Wine: Bluff Your Way in Wine - Couverture souple

Eyres, Harry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1902825675 ISBN 13 : 9781902825670

Editeur : Oval Books, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Eyres Harry

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Jonathan Goodall landed his first writing job in his early 20s, editing The Potato Page at The Fresh Produce Journal. He learnt quickly how to identify a hot-potato story, a skill he successfully transferred to Wine & Spirit International then Decanter wine magazine, which he joined as editor. Never afraid of hands-on research, he has since written about all facets of booze for, among others, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator and Saga Magazine. He has also written books, too humorous to mention, about beer and cocktails. Harry Eyres Harry Eyres was introduced to serious wine appreciation at the age of eight. With the wine running in his blood in both senses (his father was a wine merchant), he twice managed to carry off the coveted individual prize in the Oxford v Cambridge Tasting Match (the bibber s Boat race). He has been wine columnist for The Spectator and Harpers & Queen, theatre critic for The Times and is currently a columnist for The Financial Times. When not seriously appreciating wine, he returns to Spain to anaesthetise his palate with Fundador brandy in the bars of old Barcelona.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Never again confuse your vintage with your viticulture, your ullage with your oenology, your sabrage with your cépage. Bask in the admiration of your fellow drinkers, pronounce confidently on the provenance of whatever is in your glass (or your mouth), and hold your own against the most sneering of sommeliers. DO SAY (looking wistfully at your glass): I do wish they d stop corrupting Chablis with oak. It masks that incomparable goût de pierre à fusil. This, of course, means taste of gunflint . DON T SAY Alsatian when talking of wines from Alsace. You must always refer to those wines as from Alsace for, as the great wine writer André Simon once remarked, Alsatian is ze dog.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oval Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902825675
• ISBN 13: 9781902825670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible