Drinking with the Valkyries
ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED (Verlag)
978-1-913141-32-5 (ISBN)
"An entrancing companion for wine lovers. Celebratory, discerning writing with all the variety and unexpectedness of the wines explored." — Michèle Roberts, author and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia
"This book is about feeling, tasting and describing the beauty of wine, as well as understanding the intensity of emotion that wine can engender." — Decanter Magazine
"So precise and dancing, so chiselled and so free, as complex and delicious as your favourite bottle of wine, you will enjoy the world of wine differently after reading through Jefford’s words." — Pascaline Lepeltier on Instagram
“A new sort of literary gumption arrived on the scene with Andrew Jefford; a powerful blend of science and poetry. Here is a writer who does his interviews, delves deep into motives and methods, and then lets fly with whatever imagery he finds winging by.” Hugh Johnson (2019)
Poet, philosopher, author, radio presenter and journalist, Andrew Jefford lives in France; but buried deep in one wine country what does he miss most about the rest? The answer: “Drinking young port. It’s the wine drinker’s equivalent of zorbing, wing-walking, base-jumping … you won’t fully understand it unless you have tasted it young, in its ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ stage, when it comes hurtling out of the glass and puts the screamers on you...”
Andrew is the ideal companion for anyone wine-curious. In this collection of his essays, opinions and articles he shares his fascinating observations from half a century of discovery. For Andrew, wine should be listened to and admired, wherever it comes from; old-school pretentions turned on their head; style-points disdained; stellar prices dismissed; questions asked...
Andrew Jefford writes and broadcasts about different places on earth, and the foods, drinks and scents connected with them. He has written for most of the UK's wine and food press and has columns in Decanter and World of Fine Wine. Andrew and his family live near Montpellier in France. “One of my favorite wine journalists, and a guy who is up in the top echelon with Matt Kramer and Jancis Robinson….Andrew Jefford, has an exceptionally fair and balanced piece on the free Decanter magazine website called….”Wither Tasting Notes”….most people would think this goes to the heart and soul of many wine magazines, blogs, etc. but he ,as he usually does, analyzes it in a rational way, something often missing in winespeak. BTW, his books, which I have consistently recommended, are another of his strengths. So heads-up.” Robert Parker
Contents
Foreword 11
Preface: Why Wine? 15
Chapter One: Origins 17
Homo Imbibens: !e Work of Patrick McGovern 18
Chapter Two: Some Soils, Some Skies 31
!e Blue Corruptor 32
Earth’s Cream, Skimmed 34
Nuance from Disdain 36
Downhill All the Way 38
Time’s Engine Room: 2010 Langhorne Creek, 40
Reserve Shiraz, Noon
Terroir, Tasting and Tonewood 42
Happy Birthday, Breaky Bottom 45
A Sea Interlude: 2015 Picpoul de Pinet, 47
Cuvée Anniversaire, Beauvignac
Angela’s Lemon 49
Washed Up on the Shores of Illyria: 52
2015 Teran, Santa Elisabetta, Benvenuti
Dr Mistral 54
Liquid Rags in Your Mouth: 2013 Barbaresco, 57
Produttori del Barbaresco
A Honeycomb of Light: 2010 Mas del Serral, 59
Pepe Raventós
Touchdown in Wine Central 62
Chapter Three: Taste and Tasting 65
Bags, Butter and Biscuits 66
!rough the Mangrove Swamp 69
Taste First, !en Look 71
Tonic Bitterness 73
Tannin and the University of 75
the Vat
Yeast: Call Me Dad 77
Journey into Forbidden Territory 79
Freshness Young and Old 83
Old, Big and Quiet 85
!e School of Hard Wines 87
Behind Vinous Eyes 89
Wine Versus Food 91
Palate Fitness 93
Chapter Four: Some Beautiful Wines 97
Jewelled Absence: 2016 Petit Chablis, 98
Les Crioux, William Fèvre
Not Quite the White Queen: 100
1999 Corton-Charlemagne, Bonneau du Martray
Bathing Without Washing: 2005 Châteauneuf 102
du Pape Blanc, Réservé, Château Rayas
Very Like the Cuckoo’s Call: 2005 Rioja, 105
Gran Riserva, La Granja Remelluri
Forest Whispers: 2011 Château-Chalon, 107
Vin Jaune, André and Mireille Tissot
!e Antidote: 2010 Madiran, Cuvée du Couvent, 110
Domaine Capmartin
Some Useless Notes 112
!e Two-Pin Dinner 115
A Rosary of Reasons: 1882 Colheita Port, 117
Ne Oublie, Graham’s
Chapter Five: A Tea Break 121
!e Cup that Consoles 122
Chapter Six: Interrogations and Impieties 135
!e Illuminati of the Bottle 136
Disarming the Ma"a 139
Hot and Bothered 141
Drinking with the Valkyries 143
Of Jelly"sh and Guardsmen 145
Wine’s Drab Roses 147
Beyond Best 149
Nature in All Her Glory 153
Auction Fever 155
!e Party’s Over 157
Call in the Plumbers 160
In Praise of Young Wine 162
Wine Is Also a Dream 164
Chapter Seven: Wine Shadows 169
!e Crazed Giant 170
Only Endure 172
Burning Vines 174
Wine’s Transactional Flaw 176
!e Curse of the Vertical 180
Scored Rigid 183
Chapter Eight: Wine In A Life 189
Lucky Us 190
It’s a Tough Job 192
Hill Sages 196
An Evening with the Lilac-Berried Mutant: 198
2008 Gewurztraminer, Herrenweg de Turckheim
Vieilles Vignes, Zind-Humbrecht
Tears and !reats: 2003 Tokaji Aszú, 201
6 Puttonyos, Disznóko
Knowing and Loving 203
!e Ethnologist in the Cellar 206
Up the Steep Hill 209
Mille Fois Morte, Mille Fois Revécue: 211
2008 Chateau Musar Blanc
All Quiet: 2016 Bouzeron, de Villaine 213
Lessons from the Laureate 216
Meanings that Nourish: 2003 Château Meyney, 219
Saint-Estèphe, half-bottle
Chapter Nine: Against Wine Worldliness 223
Wine and Astonishment 224
Chapter Ten: Three Last Wines 237
!e Startled Hind: 2012 Pouilly-Fumé, 238
Haute Densité, Château de Tracy
Unsettled: 2014 Cannonau di Sardegna, 240
Mamuthone, Giuseppe Sedilesu
Restoration: 2018 Saint-Mont, La Madeleine 243
de Saint-Mont, Producteurs Plaimont
Glossary 247
Chronology 255
Acknowledgements 259
Index 261
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2022 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 821 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke |
| ISBN-10 | 1-913141-32-2 / 1913141322 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-913141-32-5 / 9781913141325 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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