The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization
- ISBN-10
- 0156033267
- ISBN-13
- 9780156033268
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-05
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Alice Feiring
Description
An award-winning journalist and wine expert shares her iconoclastic, passionate approach to finding the best wines, celebrating the best in natural wines made with old-fashioned techniques and arguing against the tyranny of wine consultants, the commonly used wine scoring system, homogenization, and more.
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