The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know Audiobook (Free)

Matt Kramer, author and columnist for Wines Spectator, calls The New California Wine some of the most insightful wine writing you’ll go through anywhere, claiming it provides the real skinny on cutting-edge California wines.

Hugh Johnson, the author of The Globe Atlas of Wine, agrees, finding Jon Bonne’s clear-eyed perspective to provide a fresh take a look at a mature wines culture [that’s] proceeding in surprising directions. Both understand not merely Bonne’s expertise-according to Kramer, he’s someone who’s on the ground, understands his stuff, and couldn’t treatment much less about offending the Establishment-but also how quickly he distills that knowledge into what Johnson recognizes as essential, pithy” lessons, such as for example these vinological maxims: (1) You’ll never need to very own a lot more than two types of wine eyeglasses. (2) Smell the cork. It certainly does let you know something. Smell the cup before you pour wine involved with it. (3) If you’ve heard of the Champagnes on the list, you’re most likely paying too much to them. Covering 101 topics on drinking