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Bianca Bosker

Cork Dork

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The Independent's 2017 Book of the Year and a 2020 London Eater recommended read for lockdown

'If Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about wine, the results wouldn't linger much more pleasurably on the palate than this accessible, adventurous, amusing and informative book by Bianca Bosker' — The Times
Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine — until she discovered the world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavour. Fascinated by their fervour and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a 'cork dork.'
With boundless curiosity, humour and a healthy dose of scepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, mass-market wine factories and even a neuroscientist's fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what's the big deal about wine? Funny, counterintuitive and compulsively readable, Cork Dork does for drinking what Kitchen Confidential did for dining out, ensuring you'll never reach blindly for the second cheapest bottle on the menu again.
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419 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
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  • Olga Shiryaevashared an impression4 years ago
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    A journey to the wine world. Can be interesting for any wine amateur or even pro.

  • Natalia Sedovashared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
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    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • Olga Shiryaevahas quoted4 years ago
    A sip of wine is not like a song or painting, which speak to many people at once, with a message locked for eternity in a chord or the sweep of a brush. The wine changes in the bottle, slowly evolving until its inevitable end, and it changes even more dramatically starting from the instant its cork is pulled. The liquid that forms our first sip is not the same liquid we drain from the bottle for our last. And the wine you drink is not the same as the wine I drink. It is altered by the chemistry of our bodies, the architecture of our DNA, or the backdrop of our memories. Wine exists only for you, or me, and it exists only in that instant. It is a private epiphany in the pleasure of good company. So don’t let it slip by. Savor it.
  • Olga Shiryaevahas quoted4 years ago
    Blessed are those that are true, for they will be poured.
  • Olga Shiryaevahas quoted4 years ago
    he’d take samples of the odors he wanted to master and lock himself in a dark room, then sniff one at a time while trying to associate the smell with places, people, moments, or forms. “For me, patchouli: It’s brown, it’s red, it’s earthy, it’s mystic. And the shape for me is weird. A triangle, because it’s aggressive a little bit,” he said. “You have to believe something in order to remember it, good or bad.” Another perfumer, also French, assured me I’d get nowhere unless I started assigning words to smells. “It is better if you do it aloud,

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