100 Best Wine Books of All Time

Mahesh Murthy

@udhay_shankar @iamabofh @sowmyarao_ @vinaykesari There's a great book about this called Cork Dork [source]

Randall Grahm

It is a funny book. What is best about Kermit’s writing is that he really captures the feel of a place. [source]

Emmy Bengtson

PSA: There is a great book about her called The Widow Clicquot (veuve is French for widow, the brand name literally translates to “Widow Clicquot”). It recounts, among other things, her knack for marketing—that orange!—that was many decades ahead of her time. We stan two legends! https://t.co/qVn3Qld70p [source]

Randall Grahm

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature. It really covers so much. It captures the depth and range of the wine world. [source]

Randall Grahm

What is amazing about the book, for me, is the quality of the writing, which is lovely and very funny. [source]

Barry C. Smith

Peynaud is the grandfather of oenology — the science of winemaking and of wine assessment. Peynaud is revered in the world of wine as the grandmaster who really put thinking about winemaking and thinking of all of the factors that are involved in creating a better wine on a scientific standing. Émile Peynaud in this book, The Taste of Wine, is daring to do something which you think science would fight shy of: talking of the experience of taste. As a philosopher and as a philosopher of perception, it’s intriguing to get somebody who is — though he doesn’t see himself as a philosopher — addressing something very much like what we call the mind-body problem. He was a winemaker — he consulted for properties in Bordeaux and in Burgundy and he was working with some of the best winemaking houses — he knows about the of winemaking and he knows what factors go into improving a wine and making a wine better. But all of that science is producing a number of decisions and complex interventions to craft and create a perfect wine, and he knows it’s in the service of a particular subjective experience of the taster who then benefits from this and experiences it. He wants us to pay attention to what happens as we’re tasting wine, and he became one of the leading masters teaching people about how to taste wine — wine-tasting as a practice of discrimination and not just as something we do by simply sipping or glugging what’s in our glass. Peynaud believes that what we taste depends on how we taste and that you have to slow down and pay attention to the processes and you have to get the conditions right around you for tasting. But he also talks about whether that degree of attention and complexity of detail should go into every experience of wine-tasting, and his answer is no, not every experience: there are hectolitres of shapeless, formless wines of no interest at all, he said, which are not worth wasting your time thinking about. So, he’s interested in those cases where a wine has properties that we might discover and that we might explore. As a philosopher the important point that I get out of reading that book is the idea that what we get from tasting something like a complex and beautiful wine is not given all at once. We might think that as soon as wine makes contact with the mouth we’re just tasting it as it is, and here he’s saying no, there’s such a thing as a reflection, rather like a second look at a painting; there’s a way of paying attention and assessing what’s happening in your own experience to get more and more out of what’s happening in the wine. [source]

Elizabeth De La Vega

@eliehonig @TMDILL1 @SpeakerPelosi @RepJerryNadler Oh, sneakers have been imbued w/magical properties for years! If you've never read "Dandelion Wine," by Ray Bradbury, you might enjoy it - great book about the magic of summer & sneakers, among other things. (Off the impeachment topic, I'm aware, but, hey, we need a break here.) [source]

Chris Sacca

There’s incredible knowledge in that book. [source]

Randall Grahm

There are other winemaking books, but if you have one wine book on a desert island this would probably be the one that you want or need. [source]

Cb Istanbul Eats

While natural wine is becoming enormously popular, especially in the U.S., there is still a lot of confusion about what exactly it is, where to find it and how to enjoy it. @alicefeiring is here to the rescue with her new book, Natural Wine for the People: https://t.co/mCmLz9cGgZ [source]