

Making Sense of Wine
Author: Matt Kramer
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/16/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking
Author: Matt Kramer
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/16/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking
Matt Kramer has been a full-time food and wine writer since 1976. He is a columnist in every issue of Wine Spectator and Diversion magazines. He is the longtime wine critic for the Oregonian, and has worked as a wine columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He resides in Portland, Oregon.
A great read. Not what I would call an"introductory" work on wine like the name suggests, but very entertaining. Another thing, the author states facts and lets the reader know his opinion is, after all, only an opinion. This may seem like a common sense qualifier in a work of this kind, but it isn'......more
Cool book/ taste over etiquette- tons of knowledge and attitude. Last chapter on recipes and parings was not appreciated.......more
Good book of essays for anyone who's interested in wine. The essays in the first half about connoisseurship, authenticity, and how wine is made are great. Goes a little off the rails at the end - the chapter on wine pairings is basically a list of food Kramer likes to eat and some suggestions of win......more
I thought this was a really good book about wine that taught me a lot about history, storing, myths and problems with transportation among other things. I read it as an audio book and must say that the voice actor reading it made up a lot of the rating as he was superb.......more