Cork dork
Subtitle: a wine-fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste
By: Bianca Bosker
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print lifestyles; Thorndike Press large print lifestyles
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9781432844257
Subjects: Social aspects; Wine and wine making; Friends and associates; Journalists; Sommeliers
Description: With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist's fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the question: What's the big deal about wine?
Notes: "Gale, Cengage Learning."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-553) and index.
Table of contents: title: The rat; title: The secret society; title: The showdown; title: The brains; title: The magic kingdom; title: The orgy; title: The quality control; title: The ten commandments; title: The performance; title: The trial; title: The floor; title: Epilogue: the blindest tasting.