Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France - Hardcover

Lynch, Kermit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374100926 ISBN 13: 9780374100926

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988

Synopsis

A noted wine importer offers a tour of the great wines and talented winemakers of France, as well as restaurants grand and small, and introduces a host of fascinating characters

About this title

Review:

"One of the pleasantest and truest books about wine I've ever read." --M. F. K. Fisher

"Nearly all wine books are written by experts whose intention is primarily to inform or to educate. They give little aesthetic pleasure. Kermit Lynch is certainly an expert, but his book, Adventures on the Wine Route, is also a great pleasure to read. In Kermit Lynch's small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read." --Victor Hazan

"Kermit Lynch's colorful portraits of some idiosyncratic vintners, and his commentaries on their wines, make for some of the finest reading since Joseph Wechsberg ate and drank his way through France in his book Blue Trout and Black Truffles." --Robert M. Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate

About the Author:

Kermit Lynch was born and raised in California. In 1972, he opened a retail wineshop and later began importing and distributing nationally. In 1988, he published Adventures on the Wine Route, which won the Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year Award. His second book, Inspiring Thirst, was published in 2004. Lynch divides his time between Berkeley and Provence, where he lives with his wife, the photographer Gail Skoff, and their two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0374100926
• ISBN 13: 9780374100926
• Binding: Hardcover