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The Dirty Guide to Wine
- Following Flavor from Ground to Glass
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
Still drinking Cabernet after that one bottle you liked five years ago? It can be overwhelming if not intimidating to branch out from your go-to grape, but everyone wants their next wine to be new and exciting. How to choose the right one? Award-winning wine critic Alice Feiring presents an all-new way to look at the world of wine. While grape variety is important, a lot can be learned about wine by looking at the source: the ground in which it grows. A surprising amount of information about a wine's flavor and composition can be gleaned from a region's soil, and this guide makes it simple to find the wines you'll love.
Featuring a foreword by Master Sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier, who contributed her vast knowledge throughout the book, The Dirty Guide to Wine organizes wines not by grape, not by region, not by New or Old World, but by soil. If you enjoy a Chardonnay from Burgundy, you might find the same winning qualities in a deep, red Rioja. Feiring also provides a clarifying account of the traditions and techniques of wine-tasting, demystifying the practice and introducing a whole new way to enjoy wine to sommeliers and novice drinkers alike.
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-09-20
ok book, horrible narrator
listening to this book would be interesting if not for a narrator with horrible pronunciation
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- Magdalena Buchowiecka
- 09-07-18
Very interesting approach to where wine comes from
Interesting read! For those interested in wine and bio-agriculture a 'must read'. Sometimes too detailed, but gives you an idea what wine to try from certain regions
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- Roly
- 21-05-23
Interest in wine ? …. absolutely fascinating
I recoiled initially from the American accent of the narrator and the destruction of most French and Italian pronunciation but she and her co-author prove themselves to be extraordinarily knowledgeable with an easily good enough standard of writing for nonfiction, coupled with passion, good humour and respect for the wine growers.
The premise that the quality of wine emanates chiefly from the soil in which it grows (granite, clay, limestone, schist, basalt, alluvial etc), the result of millions of years of geological change is fascinating. And we understand more easily that the taste and qualities of wine of the same grape are further drastically moulded by altitude, position west and south/north facing, wind, ever changing climate and technique. Alice Feiring’s bias is that the best wines are produced more naturally and focuses on the organic, biodynamic and sustainable.
Essentially, that wine quality is determined by specific area and grape varieties can differ vastly in taste and quality.
I learnt a lot about the subtleties of wine but remain an amateur, having missed out on the basic and middle grade skills, to ever really put all this into practice, but shall continue to enjoy it and produce some chatter along the way
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