[Note: This is a web-extra for SLM's September 2009 feature "What We Talk About When We Talk About Wine: An amateur wine enthusiast's report of facts, figures, opinions, and advice from three weeks spent talking about nothing but wine with a dozen St. Louis oenophiles." (Here's one other web-only extra that was posted on Feast.) This feature article currently appears only in print.]
A Few of the Author's Favorite Wine Books*
- The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World, by Lawrence Osborne
- Making Sense of Wine, by Matt Kramer
- Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris tasting That Revolutionized Wine, by George M. Taber
- A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine, by Jay McInerney
- The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, by Benjamin Wallace
- 1001 Wines You Must Taste Before You Die, edited by Neil Beckett
- The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste, by Elin McCoy
* Linking to Amazon, so you can read more about the books there; certainly check your neighborhood bookstore to see if a local copy can become yours. A few additional notes, while I'm footnoting: I didn't care too much for Alice Feiring's The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, and was so-so on Neal I. Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy. I'm about to start Robin Goldstein's The Wine Trials, so no take yet. Lastly, my thoughts on a few of these books can be seen in this post to SLM's arts blog.
A Few of the Author's Favorite Wine Websites
- jancisrobinson.com
- tv.winelibrary.com/
- snooth.com/
- oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/matt_kramer/
- vinography.com/
- wineanorak.com/blog/
- thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/
- grazzac.blogspot.com/
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