The Juice: Vinous Veritas Audiobook (Free)

This new collection with the acclaimed novelist-and, according to Salon, “the very best wine writer in the us”-is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious.

For greater than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, right now presented in The Wall structure Street Journal, have already been praised by restaurateurs (“Filled with small classes and surprising and amazing flavors, educational and delicious at the same time” -Mario about The Juice: Vinous Veritas Batali), by esteemed critics (“Amazing, witty, comical, and frequently shamelessly candid and provocative” -Robert M. Parker Jr.), and by the press (“His wines judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty, and his literary sources impeccable” -The New York Times).

Here McInerney provides a grasp class in the almost infinite types of wines as well as the people and places that produce everything around the world, from the historic past to the often confusing present. From such legendary châteaus as Margaux and Latour and Palmer to Australia and New Zealand and South Africa, to fresh contenders in Santa Rita Hills and Paso Robles, we learn about terroir and biodynamic viticulture, what Champagnes are affordable (or decidedly not really), even what to beverage over thirty-seven courses at Ferran Adrià’s Un Bulli-in all, an array of grapes and wine styles that’s comprehensive and thirst inducing. And conspicuous throughout is usually McInerney’s trademark flair and knowledge, which in 2006 prompted the Wayne Beard Base to grant him the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.