Jonathan Nossiter

Liquid Memory

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Jonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's finger. For him, wine is 'memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,' as essential an expression of culture as film, books or painting.
From the wine shops and three-star restaurants of Paris to the biodynamic vineyards of Burgundy, from the hipster bistros of New York to film locations in Rio de Janeiro and Athens, Liquid Memory investigates the infinite mysteries of terroir, the historical sense of place that makes wine a living, expression of cultural identity that can stretch back centuries. It is also a joyful master class in locating the soul of a wine, and in learning to trust your own palate and desires.
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319 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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  • Yatzel Roldánshared an impression5 years ago
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    Un buen libro para reflexionar el papel del terroir en un vino, así como las cambios que han habido en el mercado vinícola alrededor del mundo.

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  • Yatzel Roldánhas quoted5 years ago
    We are transforming ourselves from political citizens into predictable consumers of a single, transnational, unified non-ideological body politic. The global citizen is now the global consumer of sweet and easy things
  • Yatzel Roldánhas quoted5 years ago
    We live the Huxleyan fantasy that we are happy and free: new oak, sweetness, round tannins; Prozac; unearned, unironic happy endings in films
  • Yatzel Roldánhas quoted5 years ago
    Randall Grahm, a genial, renegade winemaker in Santa Cruz, is the rare successful Californian winemaker eager to decry the Napa power structure and the fraud of many Californian wines. He explained to me on a visit to his Charlie and the Chocolate Factory–style winery that “Man’s primitive instinct for sweetness and fat is reflected not just in a Big Mac but also in the rich, ripe, sweet, alcoholic wines that are easy to produce anywhere in the world and at any price category.

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