2024 the best wine in the world review
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Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines.
The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really!
The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned.
Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.
ASIN : B0762FV1KQ
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 1, 2017)
Publication date : November 1, 2017
Language : English
File size : 952 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 226 pages
Reviewer: Trader Bill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fantasy trip to many, if not most, winemaking countries of the world that should pique your interest in wine.
Review: I quickly got into the book with his analogy to Around the World in 80 days, as he took us through London as Phileas Fogg might have done. Mike had a more difficult time than Fogg did due to all the new world areas but managed to get most in.I disagreed with several of his choices but they were a cross-section of what people with varying degrees of knowledge might try. While I am not a fan of Two-Buck Chuck or Fred Franzia, the wine has won some medals. It proves a point: if you want to win, don't go to extremes, go right down the middle. This is not what I am about any more than ratings by Parker or anyone else. I want to know the passion of the winemaker in his/her quest to make the perfect wine. Statistics however show that the vast majority of wine drinkers are not oenophiles and when my uncle was in a retirement community I always knew what wine would be served when invited for dinner: Two-Buck Chuck...boring...to me at least!Mike suggests you think which wines you would choose...like the "which wine would you take with you to a desert island." A good read!
Reviewer: M.ORTIZ
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Did not like it
Review: It is really a story of his travels to taste wines an in no way a list of great wines from around the world
Reviewer: Robert Cohn
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It is a fun book.
Review: It is a fun read, but in Some cases I consider the wines/wineries discussed not interesting.
Reviewer: Gregory Semerdjian
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Wine Book
Review: This is one of the most informative books on wine around the world. It is well written and easy to read.
Reviewer: winepair
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun to read and full of wine discoveries
Review: I love all of Mike Vesethâs wine books, but this one might be a new favorite. This book takes you on a journey through the wine world, and I find it unexpectedly fun to discover which bottles make the cut for the authorâs suitcase along the way. As we go through famous, and much more unexpected regions, we discover the business, political and people stories behind the wines, which provide useful context to learn about the wines themselves. Great fun reading for wine enthusiasts at all levels. And for those studying for wine certifications, the stories here will make the wine facts (some explained here, and others you might be studying in your own wine textbooks) that much easier to remember. Trouble memorizing what Tawny Port is? Thereâs a story here that can help make it stick.
Reviewer: Bill Leroy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very readable, and learned a lot about wines around ...
Review: Very readable, and learned a lot about wines around the world.
Reviewer: Jeff Bridgeman
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Okay
Review: Good read but not put together as well as could be
Reviewer: Armindo Albuquerque
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Nice! I received the book One day before. Iâm só glad to buy at Amazon.com.
Reviewer: Rupert Hargreaves
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is one of the very best books I have ever read. Since i have bought another copy for a friend in Australia. Amazing
Reviewer: Barbara Vidal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great book, to learn more about wine!Very well written!Totally recommend!