num_pages: 304
description: This new collection by the acclaimed novelistand according to Salon the best wine writer in Americais generous and far-reaching deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious. For more than a decade Jay McInerneys vinous essays now featured in The Wall Street Journal  have been praised by restaurateurs (Filled with small courses and surprising and exotic flavors educational and delicious at the same time Mario Batali) by esteemed critics (Brilliant witty comical and often shamelessly candid and provocative Robert M. Parker Jr.) and by the media (His wine judgments are sound his anecdotes witty and his literary references impeccable  The New York Times ). Here McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it all the world over from the historic past to the often confusing present. From such legendary chteaus as Margaux and Latour and Palmer to Australia and New Zealand and South Africa to new contenders in Santa Rita Hills and Paso Robles we learn about terroir and biodynamic viticulture what Champagnes are affordable (or decidedly not) even what to drink over thirty-seven courses at Ferran Adri's El Bulliin all an array of grapes and wine styles that is comprehensive and thirst inducing. And conspicuous throughout is McInerneys trademark flair and expertise which in 2006 prompted the James Beard Foundation to grant him the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.
language: English
title: The Juice: Vinous Veritas
publisher: Knopf