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Drinking with the Valkyries Andrew Jefford

Drinking with the Valkyries By Andrew Jefford

Drinking with the Valkyries by Andrew Jefford


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The wine-writers' wine writer collects his best articles to explore the most profound and interesting questions about wine. A fascinating read for everyone with a broad interest in our cultural world.

Drinking with the Valkyries Summary

Drinking with the Valkyries: Writings on Wine by Andrew Jefford

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. Its the wine drinkers equivalent of zorbing, wing-walking, base-jumping you wont 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 pretensions turned on their head; style-points disdained; stellar prices dismissed; questions asked...

About Andrew Jefford

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 wine speak. BTW, his books, which I have consistently recommended, are another of his strengths. So heads-up. Robert Parker

Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface, Chapter One: Origins, Chapter Two: Some Soils, Some Skies, Chapter Three: Taste and Tasting, Chapter Four: Some Beautiful Wines, Chapter Five: A Tea Break, Chapter Six: Interrogations and Impieties, Chapter Seven: Wine Shadows, Chapter Eight: Wine in a Life, Chapter Nine: Against Wine Worldliness, Chapter Ten: Three Last Wines, Glossary, Chronology, Index

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NGR9781913141516
9781913141516
1913141519
Drinking with the Valkyries: Writings on Wine by Andrew Jefford
New
Paperback
ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED
2024-05-01
224
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