I went on a little vacation trip to Kansas City and scored some “new” wine books for my collection. If I can’t be drinking wine, then I’ll gladly read about it. I nabbed Adventures on the Wine Route by Kermit Lynch for $8. Oh, it’s a signed copy (to a doctor) and had his business card in it, with both the Berkley address and the France address. I scored a gently used copy of 1,001 Wines you must taste before you die, although I’ll be lucky to taste 100 of them. I also got Penfolds, the Rewards of Patience, the history of the Australian winery and Bordeaux/Burgundy, a Vintage Rivalry, a story of the history between these famous French viticulture areas.
This adds to my 40 or 50 wine books, including Matt Kramer on Wine, which I also bought and finished recently. This excludes my cookbooks, because that is a different category. I’ve also suffered with a brief encounter with an upper respiratory affliction, and that limited me tasting anything. The coughing left me weak and the stuff in my nose stopped smelling. I’m on the mend and will post some tasting notes shortly, along with a brief discussion about what an AVA is. Later … Meanwhile, keep popping those corks and I’ll meet you behind the grape vines.
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