Ned Halley: Absolute Corkers – a wine buff’s bedside book of anecdotes and funny stories, Constable, £7.99, 195 pages, pbk, line drawings
Ned starts by explaining how to become a wine writer and then moves onto the stories both ancient and modern – the Beaujolais vin de merde action against LyonMag is there along with the Circle contribution to its fighting fund. There is a chapter on making wine as well as one on advice including wine prices and wine investment with some extracts from investdrinks plus what to drink with ketchup.
Ned starts by explaining how to become a wine writer and then moves onto the stories both ancient and modern – the Beaujolais vin de merde action against LyonMag is there along with the Circle contribution to its fighting fund. There is a chapter on making wine as well as one on advice including wine prices and wine investment with some extracts from investdrinks plus what to drink with ketchup.
(This is certainly good bedtime reading and with Christmas approaching would make a good, small gift for an oenophile.)
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Also due out very shortly Randall Grahm's first book:
Randall Grahm: Been Doon So Long – A Randall Grahm Vinthology, University of California Press, 310 pages, £24.95 (Publication date: 1st November)
Three examples of chapter headings suggest what we can expect and, those who delight in Randall's newsletters, enjoy: Cheninagin’s Wake: James Juice Takes the Wine Train, Don Quijones, the Man for Garnacha, or A Confederacy of Doonces, and the The pHs of Romanée County.
Foreword by Hugh Johnson.
Details here.
