Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy
Neal I. Rosenthal, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (257pp) ISBN 978-0-374-24856-7
The 2008 vintage qualities remain undetermined, but with this title by New York City wine importer Rosenthal, the still-young year yields one of the outstanding wine books of recent memory. From long experience, the author writes that wine should be first understood as an expression of soil through fermented grape juice and begins his memoir of a tradesman's life with a short manifesto on that expressive quality called
Reviewed on: 01/28/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 272 pages - 978-1-4299-5778-6
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