Download PDF Adventures on the Wine Route A Wine Buyer Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition Kermit Lynch 9780374538538 Books
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The newly designed twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic volume, brought up-to-date
“Wine is, above all, about pleasure. Those who make it ponderous make it dull . . . If you keep an open mind and take each wine on its own terms, there is a world of magic to discover.†So wrote the renowned wine expert Kermit Lynch in the introduction to Adventures on the Wine Route, his ultimate tour of France, especially its wine cellars. The “magic†of wine is Lynch’s subject as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, northern and southern Rhone, and Burgundy. In Adventures on the Wine Route, the wine lover will find wisdom without a trace of pretension and hype. As Victor Hazan wrote, “In Kermit Lynch’s small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read.â€
Praise for Lynch and for Adventures on the Wine Route has not ceased since the book’s initial publication a quarter century ago. In 2007, The New York Times called it “one of the finest American books on wine.†And in June 2012, The Wall Street Journal proclaimed it “the best book on the wine business.†Full of vivid portraits of French vintners, memorable evocations of the French countryside, and, of course, vibrant descriptions of French wines, this new edition of Adventures on the Wine Route updates a modern classic for our times.
Download PDF Adventures on the Wine Route A Wine Buyer Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition Kermit Lynch 9780374538538 Books
"This book was really interesting about the wines of France in great deal. It helped me understand the differences in the wine variety, the manufacture and blending of wines and the process. It was interesting to note how the process from fruit to bottle is changing (not necessarily better for the consumer) to improve profit yield and many old time wineries are selling out to huge corporations who have nothing to do with wine making, only money making. This author is a gem in knowledge about the nuances of every variety, the minute detail of the processing and bottling and then shipping wines from France to California.He takes the reader on a tour of France, covering each wine region. Too bad I found this book 2 years after I visited many of the regions he so thoroughly describes. all the more reason to now go back and see it from a wine lover's perspective. I would highly recommend this book if you enjoy wines, what makes the wines we enjoy enjoyable or not. And he speaks about the history of France along the wine route!"
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Adventures on the Wine Route A Wine Buyer Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition Kermit Lynch 9780374538538 Books Reviews :
Adventures on the Wine Route A Wine Buyer Tour of France 25th Anniversary Edition Kermit Lynch 9780374538538 Books Reviews
- This book was really interesting about the wines of France in great deal. It helped me understand the differences in the wine variety, the manufacture and blending of wines and the process. It was interesting to note how the process from fruit to bottle is changing (not necessarily better for the consumer) to improve profit yield and many old time wineries are selling out to huge corporations who have nothing to do with wine making, only money making. This author is a gem in knowledge about the nuances of every variety, the minute detail of the processing and bottling and then shipping wines from France to California.He takes the reader on a tour of France, covering each wine region. Too bad I found this book 2 years after I visited many of the regions he so thoroughly describes. all the more reason to now go back and see it from a wine lover's perspective. I would highly recommend this book if you enjoy wines, what makes the wines we enjoy enjoyable or not. And he speaks about the history of France along the wine route!
- Got thru about half of it. Lots of info, but most of it is about winemakers for whom the average reader could only HOPE to meet. I read the book during my trip through Provence, the Chateneuf-du-Pape region and lower Burgundy. I was able to take away a few key concepts, but for the average wine-loving traveler, Kermit Lynch's itinerary is an unobtainable dream. Kermit Lynch writes about his LONG-TIME relationships with individual vintners. He does discuss current practices which adversely affect the quality of estate-produced wines in these regions (on-site bottling that saps the character of the wine, which seems to be ubiquitous in the aforementioned regions) leading me to believe that most of the so-called Burgundy and Chateneuf-du-Pape appellations are nothing more than patrimony designed to preserve the status quo, but not the quality of the product. Despite my take-away and incomplete reading I'd still recommend.
- Who doesn't love Kermit? Mr. Lynch has done much for the American wine scene. He was a pioneer in finding and bringing world-class French wine to America. Without his presence our wine world would be much less compelling. Kermit Lynch is to be thanked for his passion and his contribution to wine in America. That said, his famed collection of stories and tales does show its age. Unfortunately, time has relegated Adventures on the Wine Route to a historical footnote. Realizing that he redefined the relationship between an importer and his catalog, many of the writings found in this seminal volume are a bit old and frayed. It's a wistful look at a wine world that really doesn't exist anymore. Good when it was here, but we've moved beyond. Thanks, Kermit, for everything you've done.
- This is an interesting and fun book, especially for me, as one who loves good wine, but doesn't take the entire wine world too seriously. In the 1960's, living back East, I and my then wife enjoyed French wine which, in those days, was reasonably priced and often memorable. Mr Lynch, proprietor of a famous restaurant in Berkeley, California, began his wine travels in the 1970's and continued them in the '80s. This book tells the story of his adventures and of friends he made among the vignerons of France, mostly in the parts of the country less famous than Burgundy and Bordeaux. Mr. Lynch has his strong views, many of which seem sound to me. Wine going through the Panama Canal or across the country non-refrigerated is ruined. Filtering and fining is not good for wine. Apparently, the 1970's and 1980's saw a falling off in quality because of unfortunate fashions among consumers, which led to many questionable practices in the trade. I apparently experienced a golden age before the decline. This book is a joyful read and one may learn much which adds to one's enjoyment of wine.
- Written by a wine professional, Kermit Lynch wrote an ode to the fine art of wine making for us all to enjoy. In the process, he wrote of a time and place in France that has changed dramatically 25 years later. His French contacts are the small family owned vineyards that produce high quality, small yield old growth wine using the old French traditional methods. In the update written for the 25th anniversary edition, he brings us up to date with some of the characters we loved from the original edition. He regrets the passing of his old friends and, with it, the old school methods and traditions of traditional French winemaking. He regrets the profusion of the mass produced wine that we get today using short cut methods to produce large volumes of wine devoid of that signature French “tasteâ€.
In “Adventures on the Wine Routeâ€, Kermit Lynch wrote an ode to a way of life in French wine, of a time and place that was special and in so doing he wrote a love story for us all. - To those who are just beginning to experience the pleasures of the grape, Lynch's book is a down-to-earth, no nonsense guide to the French wines. No longer the exaggerated subtleties of the palette where the minutest sensations are depicted as something obvious for all to taste, no longer the inclination towards full bodied wine that American wine critics have adopted as orthodoxy. Lynch brings us back to the very basics of enjoyment, that wine is a positive addition to the pleasures of the table, not something to be drunk alone. Thus wines should be evaluated for its contribution to a meal rather than a stand alone item, something we should all remember the next time we look a a review in the established wine journals.
Another thing that Lynch almost eulogies is the traditional methods of wine making that is fast disappearing in France. No one can do anything about this now. But one can and does eulogies.
That said, Lynch's tour of the wine route in France is a subjective one and can by no means claim to be a comprehensive coverage of the wines of France. For the experienced drinker who knows his own palette, the book offers refreshing insight (e.g. the section on Bordeaux) into something you suspected all along and is now confirmed. For the beginner drinker it can be too partial, too idiosyncratic to be of much practical use.
