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| The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization | 
 enlarge | Author: Alice Feiring
Publisher: Harcourt
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 203288
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0151012865
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.22
EAN: 9780151012862
ASIN: 0151012865
Publication Date: May 19, 2008
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Condition: excellent condition
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 A Complete Wine Education in A Page-Turning Package May 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I picked this book up because I thought I would learn something about wine, and it seemed like a faster, more fun read than most wine books. (I am a hedonistic amateur, I love wine, but I really don't know that much about it.) Was I ever right! I couldn't put it down, and feel like now I can geek-speak with the best of them. The author gives a really engaging portrait of the different wine regions, and also the quirky wine makers she meets along the way. She also explains the debate about naturally made versus manipulated wine, which I knew nothing about before reading, but that's really made me think about how wine is and should be made. I'm dying to taste the wines she describes, now I need to track them down. They sound amazing.
memoir lover May 6, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Alice Feiring's debut memoir is frank, funny, witty and completely engaging - and I don't even drink!
 a la recherche du vin perdu May 6, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
"a la recherche du vin perdu": a recent reviewer of Feiring's new wine travelogue/memoir/introduction to natural wine 101 suggested this apt and insightful Proustian title for her book. In a time when most wine-themed books are either lightly veiled advertisements published by wine importers or salespersons (or even worse, snake oil peddlers), Feiring's book is a much-needed breath of fresh air. While so may books either dumb down the subject matter beyond the lowest possible common denominator or fly so high that only the eno-anointed can follow along, Battle reminds (or perhaps informs) the reader that the story of wine is a human story, a tale that needs to be told in human terms. Feiring's madeleine was a wine that first revealed to her the magic of fermented grape juice (in this case a Barolo). She generously invites the reader on her journey -- a deliciously rewarding but sometimes bumpy road -- to discover how wine and the wine industry have evolved over the last few decades. The news is not always good: the palates of many who make wine have been tainted, she writes, by a Goliath otherwise known as Bob Parker. But there is also hope, she tells us: along the way, we meet a colorful cast of natural winemakers, old and young, religiously devoted to protecting the tradition of "real" winemaking.
A love-ly book about naturally-made wine May 4, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The subtitle should in my opinion never have seen the light of day but once past that this is a heartfelt and informative book about a timely topic. I am definitely in Feiring's camp when it comes to a preference for naturally-made wines, and she addresses the subject with evident passion (while remaining perhaps a little light on analytical objectivity). There is a real sense of narrative here, not just a debate, and it is fun and interesting to tag along on her visits to winemakers, whether they do or don't engage in the manipulation of their wines. The "love" angle to the text is certainly distinctive. If you sympathize with her observation that "the passion of these growers and the power of their commitment started to make me believe in my future as well," then you may be particularly open to her perspective.
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