Marilyn Merlot and the Naked Grape
Subtitle: Odd Wines from Around the World
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: April 1, 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia PA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781594740992
Subjects: Wines; Wine And Wine-Making; Wine Buying Guides; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; Beverages - Wine & Spirits; Wine and wine making; Wineries; Labels
Genres: Wine; Humor
First sentence: Wine should be fun. Too often it’s portrayed as something complicated that you have to study and that you can get wrong.  It’s given marks, written, discussed and argued about and for some people wine has become such an ordeal in restaurants they give up and order something else rather than risk making the wrong wine and food match.

    But wine is just grape juice that a miracle of nature has preserved by converting its sugar into alcohol. Whatever you like is the correct wine. There is no point buying a wine you do not enjoy, no matter what others say. It is you who will drink it and you who will pay for it.

    This book celebrates those that have rejected pomposity and presented us with wines with amusing names and clever labels. They cheer us when we see them on the store shelf, and they should please us when we pour them. Just because a wine has an amusing name it doesn’t mean winemakers weren’t deadly serious about making excellent wine.
Description: Marilyn Merlot and the Naked Grape is a delightful melange of more than 100 strange, odd, and unusual wine labels--including Big Ass Red, Dancing Monkeys, Goats do Roam, Spy Valley and White Trash White.