Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine is a collection of writing planted firmly in the post–Sideways zeitgeist. The internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City and The Good Life explores the heady world of wine

Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand to his lifelong love affair with wine. Born from his popular monthly wine column in House & Garden magazine, this is a collection of writing planted firmly in the post–Sideways zeitgeist. Pearls of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the authors own debauched forty–eighth birthday party, the high–testosterone grape that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, the wild green fairy, and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine regions of the world and imparting tried and tested advice on grapes and vintages, bouquets, noses and finishes.

In the two decades since Bright Lights, Big City reinvigorated contemporary fiction, Jay McInerney can claim a great many accomplishments, including the mantle that Salon has given him – the best wine writer in America. His previous collection of writing on wine, Bacchus and Me, was proclaimed by Robert M. Parker Jr brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly candid and provocative. And The New York Times agreed: McInerneys wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty, and his literary references impeccable. Not many wine books are good reads, this one is. In A Hedonist in the Cellar, he gathers over five years worth of essays to create an exploration of whats new, whats enduring, and whats surprising in the world of wine, giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world thats almost infinitely various. Rieslings from the Finger Lakes, Armagnac from Gascony, powerhouse Amarones from Valpolicella, the most fearsome critics in England, chocolate–friendly bottles from all over the globe, new developments in Chile and Argentina – these are only some of the delights now ready to be savoured in a collection driven not only by wine itself but also the people who make it and those whose enjoyment is matched by their curiosity.

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Author:

Jay McInerney

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ISBN:

9780747588467

Publish Date:

6/2007

Pages:

272

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

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Paperback

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