This book took me ages to read. This isn't a subject I would have ever dreamed of pursuing, and I had to spend time looking up word after word. But oddly enough, I ended up learning so much!
This guy could probably learn a little bit about cross-cultural communication though. He seems to offend a lot of French winemakers along the way!
I feel like it was a feat to have finally "finis"!
Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:
In 1972, a young man named Kermit Lynch opened a little wine shop in Berkeley, California, hoping to introduce neighborhood customers to the sort of artisanal wines he was passionate about. A year later, invited to accompany an importer on a buying trip to France, he discovered his true calling. In the decades between then and now, Lynch has sniffed, swirled, and tasted his way to prominence as one of America’s most renowned importers of wines of character made the old-fashioned way—especially those that won’t break the bank. Part memoir and part travelogue, Adventures on the Wine Route is also a manifesto about the wine business and the ways in which conglomeration, trends, and market demands can threaten the very things that make the fruit of the vine worth savoring. Peppered with gorgeous (and often amusing) black-and-white photos by Gail Skoff, the book is suffused with the qualities the author seeks in casks and bottles—nuance, surprise, subtlety, expression, authenticity. By turns wise and very funny, Lynch—to say nothing of the many quirky vignerons he introduces us to—is good company indeed on this delightfully readable tour of the wine regions of France.
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