Enjoyed your review, Simon. Just like with selling a bottle in the shop, understanding how much technical information your audience is looking for is a skill. For those of us who are looking to find the bottom of the rabbit hole, it only gets harder!
I recently picked up a copy of Pascaline Lepeltier’s One Thousand Vines and found it amazing but challenging. Full of incredible information, but dense and textbook-like, even for an enthusiastic reader. I found myself skipping around quite a bit (though am content knowing this will be a book I can reference at any time for years to come). Sounds like a similar experience here, at least in the first two chapters. I guess we all have our spot on the spectrum between romanticism and cynicism for wine!
I don't have Pascaline's book in hand, but I can tell you it's way more beautiful with all those wonderful illustrations and photos than the book under review here.
Enjoyed your review, Simon. Just like with selling a bottle in the shop, understanding how much technical information your audience is looking for is a skill. For those of us who are looking to find the bottom of the rabbit hole, it only gets harder!
I recently picked up a copy of Pascaline Lepeltier’s One Thousand Vines and found it amazing but challenging. Full of incredible information, but dense and textbook-like, even for an enthusiastic reader. I found myself skipping around quite a bit (though am content knowing this will be a book I can reference at any time for years to come). Sounds like a similar experience here, at least in the first two chapters. I guess we all have our spot on the spectrum between romanticism and cynicism for wine!
I don't have Pascaline's book in hand, but I can tell you it's way more beautiful with all those wonderful illustrations and photos than the book under review here.