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Through the Wine Glass
“Curiouser and curiouser!” Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Natalie MacLean has an insatiable curiosity. And lucky for us, Natalie’s curiosity is for all things wine. In her excellent book Red, White, and...
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Book Review: Daring Pairings by Evan Goldstien
This book arrived at the Wine School’s doorstep just as I was completing the spring semester’s Core Program. Per usual, the food and wine pairing class – with no shortage of puckering, sputtering, and...
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Benjamin Wallace at the Free Library
Benjamin Wallace – author of The Billionaire’s Vinegar – will be appearing at the Free Library of Philadelphia on Sunday, May 18, 3:00 PM for a talk and book signing. Writer Wallace took six years to...
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The Billionaire’s Vinegar out in Paperback
Per The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, May 17, 2009), Benjamin Wallace’s excellent The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine is out in paperback. As I...
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Book Roundup Part 1
Notes on a Cellar-Book, by George Saintsbury. Originally published in 1920, Saintsbury’s book is still considered one of the best books on drink and drinking in wine literature. Tasting notes and...
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First Big Crush – The Movie
A couple years ago, I reviewed Eric Arnold’s First Big Crush, Eric’s recounting of his year in New Zealand learning about wine. Since that time, Eric has become an editor at Forbes and a good friend...
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Eric Arnold’s First Big Crush
Eric Arnold is in love. Not simply with wine, or New Zealand wines, or the people who grow and create those wines. No, Eric is in love with the whole damn mess of it all. First Big Crush is a book...
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“Wine and War,” by Don and Petie Kladstrup
So maybe it’s not following the generally accepted protocol to review a book before the would-be reviewer has even read through to the last page, but I’m making an exception in this case. Because this...
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