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Brian Brochstein's avatar

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!

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Simon J Woolf's avatar

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.

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Cameron Price's avatar

Oh man, the "natural wine can't age" cliché gets me every time! Such BS.

I already have tons of wine books I haven't read yet! Pascaline's book for example IS beautiful but oh so dense. Understanding Wine Technology by David Bird was weirdly a favorite of mine during my studies.

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