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Index
Cover
Praise
About the Author
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part One - Foreplay
Chapter 1 - My Favorite White
Chapter 2 - Friuli’s Favorite Son: Tocai Friulano
Chapter 3 - Thin Is In: The New Wave of California Chardonnays
Chapter 4 - The Whites of the Andes
Chapter 5 - The Forgotten Whites of Bordeaux
Chapter 6 - No Respect: Soave
Chapter 7 - Gray Is the New White: Pinot Gris
Chapter 8 - Translating German Labels
Part Two - “All Wine Wishes it could be Red”
Chapter 9 - The Shedistas of Santa Barbara
Chapter 10 - The Roasted Slope of the Rhône
Chapter 11 - The House Red of the Montagues and the Capulets
Chapter 12 - “An Extreme, Emotional Wine”: Amarone
Chapter 13 - Cape Crusaders: South African Reds
Chapter 14 - The Black Wine of Cahors
Chapter 15 - Major Barbera
Chapter 16 - Go Ask Alice: The Dark Secret of Bandol
Chapter 17 - The Spicy Reds of Chile
Chapter 18 - Malbec Rising
Chapter 19 - Personality Test: Julia’s Vineyard
Part Three - How to Impress Your Sommelier
Chapter 20 - How to Impress Your Sommelier, Part One: German Riesling
Chapter 21 - No More Sweet Talk, or How to Impress Your Sommelier, Part Two: Austrian Riesling
Chapter 22 - The Semi-Obscure Treasures of Alsace
Chapter 23 - The Discreet Charms of Old-Style Rioja
Chapter 24 - The Mysterious Beauty of Sagrantino di Montefalco
Part Four - Lovers, Fighters, and Other Obsessives
Chapter 25 - Oedipus at Hermitage: Michel Chapoutier
Chapter 26 - Ghetto Boys: Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton Get Radical
Chapter 27 - Jilted Lover: Auberon Waugh
Chapter 28 - The Obsessive: Remírez de Ganuza
Chapter 29 - Berkeley’s French Ambassador: Kermit Lynch
Chapter 30 - The Mad Scientist of Jadot
Chapter 31 - Voice in the Wilderness: Willy Frank and the Finger Lakes
Chapter 32 - Finessing the Fruit Bombs
Chapter 33 - Mountain Men: The Smith Brothers of Smith-Madrone
Chapter 34 - Do the Brits Taste Differently? Michael Broadbent and Jancis Robinson
Chapter 35 - Robert Mondavi’s Bizarro Twin: The Passions and Puns of Randall Grahm
Part Five - Expensive Dates
Chapter 36 - First Among Firsts? The Glories of Cheval-Blanc
Chapter 37 - The Name’s Bond
Chapter 38 - “A Good and Most Perticular Taste”: Haut-Brion
Chapter 39 - The Maserati of Champagne
Chapter 40 - Bacchanalian Dreambook: The Wine List at La Tour d’Argent
Part Six - Matches Made in Heaven
Chapter 41 - Fish Stories from Le Bernardin
Chapter 42 - What to Drink with Chocolate
Chapter 43 - Provençal Pink
Chapter 44 - Odd Couples: What to Drink with Asian Food
Part Seven - Bin Ends
Chapter 45 - Baby Jesus in Velvet Pants: Bouchard and Burgundy
Chapter 46 - Strictly Kosher
Chapter 47 - Body and Soil
Chapter 48 - New Zealand’s Second Act
Part Eight - Bubbles and Spirits
Chapter 49 - Number Two and Bitching Louder: Armagnac
Chapter 50 - White on White: Blanc de Blancs Champagne
Chapter 51 - Monk Business: The Secrets of Chartreuse
Chapter 52 - Tiny Bubbles: Artisanal Champagnes
Chapter 53 - The Wild Green Fairy: Absinthe
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Copyright
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