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Lawrence Osborne The Accidental Connoisseur (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Accidental Connoisseur : an Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
- Publication Name
- The Accidental Connoisseur
- Title
- The Accidental Connoisseur
- Subtitle
- An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0865477124
- EAN
- 9780865477124
- ISBN
- 9780865477124
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Cooking
- Release Date
- 01/03/2005
- Release Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Topic
- Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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What is taste? Is it individual or imposed on us from the outside? Why are so many of us so intimidated when presented with the wine list at a restaurant? In The Accidental Connoisseur , journalist Lawrence Osborne takes off on a personal voyage through a little-known world in pursuit of some answers. Weaving together a fantastic cast of eccentrics and obsessives, industry magnates and small farmers, the author explores the way technological change, opinionated critics, consumer trends, wheelers and dealers, trade wars, and mass market tastes have made the elixir we drink today entirely different from the wine drunk by our grandparents. In his search for wine that is a true expression of the place that produced it, Osborne takes the reader from the high-tech present to the primitive past. From a lavish lunch with wine tsar Robert Mondavi to the cellars of Marquis Piero Antinori in Florence, from the tasting rooms of Chateau Lafite to the humble vineyards of northern Lazio, Osborne winds his way through Renaissance palaces, $27 million wineries, tin shacks and garages, opulent restaurants, world-famous chais and vineyards, renowned villages and obscure landscapes, as well as the great cities which are the temples of wine consumption: New York, San Francisco, Paris, Florence, and Rome. On the way, we will be shown the vast tapestry of this much-desired, little-understood drink: who produces it and why, who consumes it, who critiques it? Enchanting, delightful, entertaining, and, above all, down to earth, this is a wine book like no other.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865477124
ISBN-13
9780865477124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43397567
Product Key Features
Book Title
Accidental Connoisseur : an Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Cooking
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tp548.O655 2004
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"Funny, provocative, and vastly entertaining." -- Gerald Asher "A humorous punch in the nose to wine snobs who think money buys good taste." -- Kermit Lynch "Lawrence Osborne's The Accidental Connoisseur is shrewd, apt, acerbic and often quite crazy. We are carried along equally by the honed criticism and the fine writing." -- Jim Harrison, "Funny, provocative, and vastly entertaining." --Gerald Asher "A humorous punch in the nose to wine snobs who think money buys good taste." --Kermit Lynch "Lawrence Osborne's The Accidental Connoisseur is shrewd, apt, acerbic and often quite crazy. We are carried along equally by the honed criticism and the fine writing." -- Jim Harrison, "Funny, provocative, and vastly entertaining." --Gerald Asher "A humorous punch in the nose to wine snobs who think money buys good taste." --Kermit Lynch "Lawrence Osborne'sThe Accidental Connoisseuris shrewd, apt, acerbic and often quite crazy. We are carried along equally by the honed criticism and the fine writing." --Jim Harrison, Lawrence Osborne's The Accidental Connoisseur is shrewd, apt, acerbic and often quite crazy. We are carried along equally by the honed criticism and the fine writing.
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-013577
Dewey Decimal
641.2/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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