Adventures on the Wine Route, Kermit Lynch
Adventures on the Wine Route, Kermit Lynch
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Adventures on the Wine Route
A Wine Buyer's Tour of France (25th Anniversary Edition)

Author: Kermit Lynch

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2021

Categories: Cooking, Nonfiction

Synopsis

"Wine is, above all, about pleasure. Those who make it ponderous make it dull . . . If you keep an open mind and take each wine on its own terms, there is a world of magic to discover." So wrote the renowned wine expert Kermit Lynch in the introduction to Adventures on the Wine Route, his ultimate tour of France, especially its wine cellars. The "magic" of wine is Lynch's subject as he takes the listener on a singular journey through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, northern and southern Rhone, and Burgundy. In Adventures on the Wine Route, the wine lover will find wisdom without a trace of pretension and hype. As Victor Hazan wrote, "In Kermit Lynch's small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read."

Praise for Lynch and for Adventures on the Wine Route has not ceased since the book's initial publication a quarter century ago. In 2007, the New York Times called it "one of the finest American books on wine." And in June 2012, the Wall Street Journal proclaimed it "the best book on the wine business." Full of vivid portraits of French vintners, memorable evocations of the French countryside, and, of course, vibrant descriptions of French wines, this new edition of Adventures on the Wine Route updates a modern classic for our times.

About Kermit Lynch

Kermit Lynch was born and raised in California. In 1972, he opened a retail wine shop and later began importing and distributing nationally. In 1988, he published Adventures on the Wine Route, which won the Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year Award. His second book, Inspiring Thirst, was published in 2004. Lynch divides his time between Berkeley and Provence, where he lives with his wife, the photographer Gail Skoff, and their two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Otis on January 14, 2020

A bit old, but a great overview and tour through French wines. Fascinating to see that even then the wines that tasted best were not the big names, but the ones who were doing it "the old way" and not using huge modern technology that filtered the wine. But this of course doesn't scale so less and l......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on October 14, 2008

This a book for those who love wine and like to read about it from someone who is a master with prose, and also someone who, like me, confuses my limited knowledge of French language, geography, and wine growing regions. Written in the late-1980s, Kermit Lynch does not delve into pretentious, uppity......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on August 11, 2024

Wine buyer Kermit Lynch takes us on a tour of the wines of France, through the Loire, Bordeaux, Languedoc, Provence, and all the other great wine regions. I learned so much about the making of wine and drinking of wine from reading this book.......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on January 22, 2008

I don't think I would have enjoyed this book nearly as much were I not already quite familiar with the wines and wine regions of France, and the wine industry in general. When he tells about drinking a Vouvray from the 40s, my mouth watered. When he tells about his first meeting with the Bruniers, I......more

Goodreads review by Tejas on July 03, 2020

This was clearly such an important book about wine at the time of its original publishing, and it stood the test of time and feels so fresh and relevant now. Lynch's voice is personal, un-assuming, rough around the edges in all of the right ways, and this book reads like an honest account of a pione......more

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