图书基本信息

A Carafe of Red
作者： Gerald Asher
ISBN13： 9780520270329
类型： 简装(简装书)
语种： 英语（English）
出版日期： 2012-02-07
出版社： University of California Press
页数： 296
重量（克）： 299
尺寸： 22.8092 x 15.3162 x 1.7526 cm

商品简介

A collection of essays that provides accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy evocations of people and places. It takes the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with the carafe at his elbow.

书评与摘要

Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy vivid evocations of people and places. Asher puts wine in its context by taking the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with the carafe at his elbow. In his introduction, Asher says, "Wine . . . draws on everything and leads everywhere." Whether the subject is a supposedly simple red wine shared in a Parisian caf or a Napa Valley Cabernet tasted with its vintner, every essay in A Carafe of Red is as pleasurable as the wines themselves.