31 July, 2022
The first book about wine that I read was Alice Feiring’s »For the Love of Wine – My Odyssey Through the World’s Most Ancient Wine Culture«, her account of travelling through Georgia. I read it on the very train that I took to meet, for the very first time, Thomas (Puéchavy), in September 2020. During my stay in Amboise I read my second book about wine, Nicolas Joly’s »What Is Biodynamic Wine? The Quality, the Taste, the Terroir« because I had had one of his wines a few weeks earlier, on my birthday, at the Berlin-based restaurant Tulus Lotrek.
BOOKS
Aaron Ayscough »The World of Natural Wine – what it is, who makes it, and why it matters«, Artisan, 2022
Bianca Bosker »Cork Dork«, Allen & Unwin, 2017
Michael Broadbent »Pocket Guide to Winetasting (Revised and Enlarged Edition)«, Mitchell Beazley, 1968/1973/1979
Robert V. Camuto »Cork Screwed – Adventures in the New French Wine Country«, University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Romain Cole »Es Brutal !«, Cambourakis, 2021
Alice Feiring »The Battle for Wine and Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization«, Mariner Books, 2008
Alice Feiring »Naked Wine – Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally«, Da Capo Press, 2011
Alice Feiring »For the Love of Wine – My Odyssey Through the World’s Most Ancient Wine Culture«, Potomac Books, 2016
Alice Feiring »Natural Wine for the People – What It Is – Where to Find It – How to Love It«, Ten Speed Press, 2019
Alice Feiring »To Fall in Love, Drink This«, Scribner Books, 2022
Alice Feiring with Pascaline Lepeltier »The Dirty Guide to Wine – Following Flavors from Ground to Glass«, The Countryman Press, 2017
Camilla Gjerde »We Don’t Want Any Crap in Our Wine – The Women Behind the Bottle«, Now What Publishing, 2021
Hugh Johnson »Vintage – The Story of Wine«, Simon & Schuster, 1989
Hugh Johnson »Wine: A Life Uncorked«, Phoenix, 2005
Nicolas Joly »What Is Biodynamic Wine? The Quality, the Taste, the Terroir«, Clairview, 2007
Don & Petie Kladstrup »Wine & War«, Hodder, 2001
Isabelle Legeron »Naturwein– biologischer und biodynamischer Wein, natürlich produziert«, AT Verlag, 2020
Kermit Lynch »Adventures on the Wine Route – A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France (25th Anniversary Edition)«, 1988/2013
Jay McInerney »Bacchus & Me – Adventures in the Wine Cellar«, Vintage Books, 2002
Jay McInerney »A Hedonist in the Cellar – Adventures in Wine«, Vintage Books, 2006
Jay McInerney »The Juice – Vinous Veritas«, Vintage Books, 2013
Lawrence Osborne »The Accidental Connoisseur«, North Point Press, 2004
Robert M. Parker, Jr. »Bordeaux«, Hallwag, 1985/1991/992
Roger Scruton »I Drink Therefore I am – A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine«, Continuum, 2009
Rachel Signer »You Had Me at Pét-Nat – a Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir«, Hachette Books, 2021
Anders Frederik Steen »Poetry Is Growing in Our Garden – Thoughts on Wine-Making and Wine-Drinking«, Apartamento Publishing, 2021
Edward Steinberg »Die Weine von San Lorenzo – Angelo Gaja und die neue Kunst des Weinbaus im Piemont«, Edition spangenberg/Droemer Knaur, 1992/1995
Stuart Pigott »Wilder Wein – Reise in die Zukunft des Weins«, Scherz, 2006
Terry Theise »Reading Between the Wines«, University of California Press, 2010/2011
Various »Wine Reads – A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing – Edited by Jay McInerney«, Grove Press, 2018
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31 July, 2022: The wine books I’ve read so far (a copy of Le Rouge & le Blanc magazine is hidden in the right pile)