Category: Book Reviews

Book Review: Palmento by Robert Camuto
About a month ago, newly immersed in this thing we now call self-isolation, the internets brought me a ray of

Book Review: Natural Wine for the People, by Alice Feiring
Review by Michael Woeste Alice Feiring wants to make a natural wine believer out of you. The woman who might

Book Review: But First, Champagne, by David White
Six months ago, if you asked me what book to get if you wanted to learn more about Champagne, I

Book Review: Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter
Review By Camille Berry Domaine Romanée-Conti’s wines are perhaps the most famous in the world, and amongst the most expensive.

Wine and Words in Three Volumes
I happened last week to be eating lunch at a small cafe that had a wine store and bar attached.

Book Review: The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert
Review By Stella Fong The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert will, at first, appeal to

California’s Current Wine Revolution
What does the world look like to those in the midst of a quiet revolution? As with the frog in

Book Review: The Latest in Wine and Food Pairing
Review by Tim Patterson. If you find the subject of food and wine pairing confusing, intimidating or irritating, read Francois

Book Review: Wine Grapes by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz
Why would any wine lover want to know something about more than one thousand different grape varieties? For the same

Book Review: A Toast to Bargain Wines by George Taber
Review by Tim Patterson Books and articles about bargain wines are a dime a dozen–check that, a nickel a dozen.

Book Review: The Chateauneuf-du-Pape Wine Book by Harry Karis
It’s not entirely clear to me which is more remarkable: the fact that before this book was published there was

Book Review: Wine Wars by Mike Veseth
Review by Tim Patterson. A big part of wine’s allure is that it is so many different things: a source

Book Review: The Drops of God: Vol 1, by Tadashi Agi
I’m tickled by the idea of wine featuring prominently in popular entertainment. I think a lot of wine lovers got

Book Review: Two New Takes on Natural Wine
Review by Tim Patterson. Alongside the profusion of wine bars and wine weeks focused on so-called “natural wines”–wines made with

Book Review: When Wine Tastes Best
Review by Tim Patterson I am here to tell you about the only wine book you or I will ever

Book Review: Wine by Thomas Pellechia
Review by Tim Patterson Unlike the fads and fancies and 15-minute trends that come with every new vintage, the history

Book Review: Vino Argentino by Laura Catena
Book review by Sarah Trubnick. Argentine wine is an interesting subject for a book at this point in time. The

The Wine Lover’s Essential Library
I’ve been asked more than once in the past few weeks about which wine books I like that might make

Book Review: Secrets of the Sommeliers by Rajat Parr and Jordan MacKay
Review by Tim Patterson. Secrets of the Sommeliers, a collaboration between Rajat Parr, wine director for the Michael Mina group