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The Booklovers' Guide to Wine

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by Patrick Alexander


  Chassagne-Montrachet

  Échezeaux

  Côte de Nuits

  Flagey-Echézeaux

  Grands Échezeaux

  Côte de Nuits

  Flagey-Echézeaux

  Griotte-Chambertin

  Côte de Nuits

  Gevrey-Chambertin

  La Grande Rue

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  La Romanée

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  La Tâche

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  Latricières-Chambertin

  Côte de Nuits

  Gevrey-Chambertin

  Mazis-Chambertin

  Côte de Nuits

  Gevrey-Chambertin

  Mazoyères-Chambertin

  Côte de Nuits

  Gevrey-Chambertin

  Montrachet

  Côte de Beaune

  Puligny-Montrachet

  Montrachet

  Côte de Beaune

  Chassagne-Montrachet

  Musigny

  Côte de Nuits

  Chambolle-Musigny

  Richebourg

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  Romanée-Conti

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  Romanée-Saint-Vivant

  Côte de Nuits

  Vosne-Romanée

  Ruchottes-Chambertin

  Côte de Nuits

  Gevrey-Chambertin

  The 33 Grand Crus of Burgundy

  APPENDIX C: 1976 Judgment of Paris final results

  VINEYARD

  VARIETAL

  COUNTRY

  RESULT

  white

  red

  Chateau Montelena, 1973

  Chardonnay

  California

  1

  Mersault Charmes Roulot, 1973

  France

  2

  Chalone Vinyard, 1974

  California

  3

  Spring Mountain, 1973

  California

  4

  Beaune, Clos de Mouches, 1973

  France

  5

  Freemark Abbey Winery, 1972

  California

  6

  Batard-Montrachet Ramonet-Prudhon,1972

  France

  7

  Puligny-Montrachet les Pucelles

  France

  8

  Veedercrest Vinyards, 1972

  California

  9

  David Bruce, 1973

  California

  10

  Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, 1973

  Cabernet Sauvignon

  California

  1

  Chateau Mouton Rothschild, 1970

  France

  2

  Chateau Montrose, 1970

  France

  3

  Chateau Haut-Brion, 1970

  France

  4

  Ridge Vinyards Monte Bello, 1971

  California

  5

  Chateau Leoville-Las-Cases, 1971

  France

  6

  Heitz Cellars, Martha's Vinyard, 1970

  California

  7

  Clos du Val Winery, 1972

  California

  8

  Mayacamas Vinyards, 1971

  California

  9

  Freemark Abbey Winery, 1969

  California

  10

  Bibliography

  Books about wine

  This selection of books has been specifically chosen for having informed and influenced my own knowledge and love of wine, and for inspiring my own book.

  Butler, Joel, and Randall Heskett: Divine Vintage, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

  Campbell, Christy: The Botanist and the Vintner, Algonquin Books, 2006.

  Clarke, Oz: The History of wine in 100 Bottles, Sterling Publishing, 2015.

  Colman, Tyler: Wine Politics, University of California Press, 2010.

  Dovaz, Michel, and Michel Guillard: Bordeaux: Legendary Wines, Assouline, 2014.

  Johnson, Hugh, and Jancis Robinson, World Atlas of Wine, Mitchell Beazley, 2014.

  Johnson, Hugh: Pocket Wine Book, Mitchell Beazley, 2015

  Johnson, Hugh: Vintage – The Story of Wine, Simon & Schuster, 1989.

  Keevil, Susan: Wines of the World, Metro Books, 2010.

  Kliman, Todd: The Wild Vine, Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2010.

  Lukacs, Paul: Inventing Wine, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

  MacNeil, Karen: The Wine Bible, Workman Publishing, 2000.

  McGovern, Patrick K.: Ancient Wines, Princeton University Press, 2003

  Ordish, George: The Great Wine Blight, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1987

  Osborne, Lawrence: The Accidental Connoisseur, North Point Press, 2004.

  Pitte, Jean-Robert: Bordeaux/Burgundy, University of California Press, 2012.

  Potter, Maximillian: Shadows in the Vineyard, Twelve, 2014.

  Robinson, Jancis: Guide to Wine Grapes, Oxford University Press, 1996.

  Robinson, Jancis, editor: The Oxford Companion to Wine, Oxford University Press, 2006.

  Saporta, Isabelle: Vino Business, Grove Press, 2015.

  Steinberger, Michael: The Wine Savant, W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

  Taber, George: Judgment of Paris, Scribner, 2006.

  Veseth, Mike: Wine Wars, Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

  Wallace, Benjamin: The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Three Rivers Press, 2009.

  Movies about wine (all highly recommended):

  Red Obsession (2013 documentary): Beautiful and splendid st
udy of Bordeaux wines and China.

  A Year in Burgundy (2013 documentary): Martine Saunier follows seven Burgundian winemaking families through twelve months of work.

  A Year In Champagne (2015 documentary): Martine Saunier does the same thing for the winemakers of Champagne.

  Mondovino (2004 documentary): The globalization of the world’s wine industry.

  SOM (2012 documentary): The training and trials of becoming a certified sommelier.

  Sideways (2004 comedy): A paean to Pinot Noir and an attack on Merlot.

  Bottleshock (2008 comedy): Roughly based on The Judgment of Paris

  Epilogue

  “Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.”

  Frank Muir

  “We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.” —

  Eduardo Galeano

  “Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”

  William Butler Yeats

  “The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.”

  Homer, The Odyssey

  “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  The Soul Of Wine

  One night, from bottles, sang the soul of wine:

  ‘O misfit man, I send you for your good

  Out of the glass and wax where I’m confined,

  A melody of light and brotherhood!

  I know you must, out on the blazing hill,

  Suffer and sweat beneath the piercing rays

  To grow my life in me, my soul and will;

  I’m grateful to you, and I will not play

  You false, since I feel joy when I can fall

  Into the throat of some old working man,

  And his warm belly suits me overall

  As resting place more than cold cellars can.

  And do you hear the songs that hope believes,

  The Sunday music, throbbing from my breast?

  Elbows on table, rolling up your sleeves

  You praise me, and I’ll put your cares to rest;

  I’ll fire the eyes of your enraptured wife;

  I’ll grant a force and colour to your son,

  And will for this frail athlete of life

  Be oil that makes the straining muscles run.

  My nectar falls in your fertility,

  A precious seed whose Sower is divine,

  So from our love is born rare poetry,

  Thrusting towards God the blossom on its vine!’

  Charles Baudelaire

 

 

 


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