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A carregar... Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters (edição 2010)por Jonathan Nossiter (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The guy who made 'Mondovino' writes about the power struggle in Bordeaux and beyond. Slow read at first, perhaps I was struggling with the French language, but soon became very engaging, if intense. He doesn't mince his words. He loves terroir, acidity, personalities, he hates Michel Roland, Robert Parker, easy, sweet, over-alcohoolic wines. He states that much of Bordeaux is a whore to Parker's points and far prefers independant Burgundy, Loire, alsacians. Aubert de Villaine and Hubert de Montille; Alix de Montille... He castigates new Spain wines, like Pingus by the Danish wine-maker made-for-Parker... would he like Terramol? I liked it a lot. I have many winebooks (some 10 yards. One day I hope they'll be on librarything) and most are not worth rereading but this one is. Wideranging, from caviste to the condition humaine, not to forget about the riddle of the bad bottle of wine, this book has some deep thought sabout what wine is and about the position of the consumer in today's world. Food for thought it leaves you with many more questions than answers. Always a good thing in a book. It also makes me want to go to Paris and buy a lot of bottles of wine. Which is maybe not so good. Peut-on mondialiser le goût? La réponse est évidemment non! Si dès que j'achète un vin à 10 euros je sais exactement le goût qu'il va avoir avant même de l'avoir ouvert, on brise l'effet de surprise, de nouveauté, de découverte. Le livre est très intéressant, même s'il est frustrant que ce soit surtout des tables Parisiennes qui y soient mentionnées. Le style est parfois décousu. On passe des dialogues retranscrits aux descriptions plus longues. On n'achètera pas ce livre pour la littérature mais pour le message et l'optimisme. On a vraiment envie de partir à la découverte, de parler aux cavistes, d'imaginer de nouvelles associations de goût. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Jonathan Nossiter, acclaimed filmmaker and former sommelier, had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's fingertip. For him, wine is "memory in its most liquid and dynamic form," as essential an expression of culture as cinema, books, baseball, painting, even sex. With great wit and passion, he celebrates wine and its enthusiasts - and defends both from those who tell us what to drink and how to think about it. In Liquid Memory, the American expatriate investigates the infinite mysteries of terroir, the historical sense of place that makes wine a living, thrilling expression of cultural identity that can stretch back centuries. The book is a deliriously joyful master class in locating the soul of a wine, and in learning to trust your own palate and desires. Nossiter, who has already created an uproar in the world of wine with his film Mondovino, arms us against the tyranny of snobs, critics, and charlatans who would prevent us from taking part in what should be a gloriously democratic bacchanalia. From the sacred wine shops and three-star restaurants of Paris to the biodynamic vineyards of Burgundy, from the hipster bistros of New York to film locations in Rio de Janeiro and Athens, this singular journey invites us to consider how power, misused, can sometimes mask an absence of taste - and how our own personal taste can combat power in any sphere. A controversial bestseller in Europe, Liquid Memory is sure to rile the establishment, enlighten the thirsty, and reveal the inner life of the world's most mysterious, contradictory, and jubilatory drink. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book is also a bit of a crusade against Robert Parker/Wine Spectator and others who claim to be able to evaluate wine objectively. I found it reassuring that there are least a view knowledgeable wine people who find the overblown descriptions by these reviewers hard to understand. ( )