Ebook Red White An unquenchable thirst for wine Oz Clarke 9781408710173 Books
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 ANDRE SIMON AWARD
With Red & White, Oz Clarke has reinvented wine writing. This is a book to read for pleasure, rather than merely refer to. Combining fast-paced witty memoir with passionately opinionated guide, Oz pops the cork on his life-long love affair with wine.
The best loved wine communicator of our time, Oz Clarke is the guest you want at your table, the person to select the wine, and the ideal drinking companion.
He explains how, why & where he fell in love with wine; he explains the essentials of how wine is grown and made today; then takes you into the world's wine regions and introduces you to the wines he loves. Oz reveals how he tastes wine and how you can enjoy wine whatever the budget. He covers with equal care & attention all categories of wine, from the blue-chip to the most affordable.
With Red & White, you are in the hands of the best-informed and the most inspirational guide, and you will pick up, without even trying, a wealth of knowledge that Oz is bursting to share with you.
With climate change and the move to organic & sustainable practices, wine is evolving faster than ever before. And hundreds of local grape varieties, until recently facing extinction, are also being rediscovered.
There have never been so many brilliant & original wines. To discover them, all you need is a glass in your hand, a sense of adventure, and Oz's Red & White as your companion & inspiration!
Ebook Red White An unquenchable thirst for wine Oz Clarke 9781408710173 Books
"Purchase new and both corners damaged and some weird black ink on cover"
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Red White An unquenchable thirst for wine Oz Clarke 9781408710173 Books Reviews
- Oz Clarke has written many books on wine and wine producers, but this is probably his best book. It is a compendium of autobiography, wine, wine-making, and wine tasting. He has such a lovely sense of humour, telling us that he had his first taste of wine at the age of three, when his brother nearly drowned during a family picnic. When everyone ran to his rescue, Oz drank some unguarded wine. ‘My brother survived, but I very nearly didn’t’.
He takes us through the time when winemakers were less meticulous, mixing grapes of varying degrees of ripeness to modern day wine-making in which became almost technical and precise. He discusses the wines of the major wine producing countries – France, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, USA, Portugal, South Africa, South America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain. He has a good account of wines from Eastern Europe and England. It is a pity that Chile and Argentina shared book space together when they deserve greater attention, but the book is already 600 pages long; something has to give. The latter has started to produce excellent wines and bubbly. He tells us that after the prohibition ended in the USA in 1933, it took the Americans only a few decades – to 1966 – when Robert Mondavi produced wines that pipped the French in a blind tasting in Paris.
He devotes much space to describing the major grape varietals in his usual effusive style, telling us how the Syrah/Shiraz grape has ventured all over the world including places it was not meant to go. And as for the Sauvignon Blanc, well, he says ‘Hail to the people’s wine. Hail to the scourge of the wine snob. Hail to the slayer of privilege, the toppler of the great citadels of elitism… this fury that the Sauvignon Blanc inspires among wine buffs is one of its most important features. They can’t bear its popularity’.
In the end, we must all appreciate, as Oz says, ‘Wine is now a global village’. And Australians are getting into the Sangiovese. So much wine, so little time. - Purchase new and both corners damaged and some weird black ink on cover
