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A fascinating read for everyone with a broad interest in our cultural world.Contents Foreword 11 Preface: Why Wine? 15 Chapter One: Origins 17 Homo Imbibens: !e Work of Patrick McGovern 18 Chapter Two: Some Soils, Some Skies 31 !e Blue Corruptor 32 Earth’s Cream, Skimmed 34 Nuance from Disdain 36 Downhill All the Way 38 Time’s Engine Room: 2010 Langhorne Creek, 40 Reserve Shiraz, Noon Terroir, Tasting and Tonewood 42 Happy Birthday, Breaky Bottom 45 A Sea Interlude: 2015 Picpoul de Pinet, 47 Cuvée Anniversaire, Beauvignac Angela’s Lemon 49 Washed Up on the Shores of Illyria: 52 2015 Teran, Santa Elisabetta, Benvenuti Dr Mistral 54 Liquid Rags in Your Mouth: 2013 Barbaresco, 57 Produttori del Barbaresco A Honeycomb of Light: 2010 Mas del Serral, 59 Pepe Raventós Touchdown in Wine Central 62 Chapter Three: Taste and Tasting 65 Bags, Butter and Biscuits 66 !rough the Mangrove Swamp 69 Taste First, !en Look 71 Tonic Bitterness 73 Tannin and the University of 75 the Vat Yeast: Call Me Dad 77 Journey into Forbidden Territory 79 Freshness Young and Old 83 Old, Big and Quiet 85 !e School of Hard Wines 87 Behind Vinous Eyes 89 Wine Versus Food 91 Palate Fitness 93 Chapter Four: Some Beautiful Wines 97 Jewelled Absence: 2016 Petit Chablis, 98 Les Crioux, William Fèvre Not Quite the White Queen: 100 1999 Corton-Charlemagne, Bonneau du Martray Bathing Without Washing: 2005 Châteauneuf 102 du Pape Blanc, Réservé, Château Rayas Very Like the Cuckoo’s Call: 2005 Rioja, 105 Gran Riserva, La Granja Remelluri Forest Whispers: 2011 Château-Chalon, 107 Vin Jaune, André and Mireille Tissot !e Antidote: 2010 Madiran, Cuvée du Couvent, 110 Domaine Capmartin Some Useless Notes 112 !e Two-Pin Dinner 115 A Rosary of Reasons: 1882 Colheita Port, 117 Ne Oublie, Graham’s Chapter Five: A Tea Break 121 !e Cup that Consoles 122 Chapter Six: Interrogations and Impieties 135 !e Illuminati of the Bottle 136 Disarming the Ma"a 139 Hot and Bothered 141 Drinking with the Valkyries 143 Of Jelly"sh and Guardsmen 145 Wine’s Drab Roses 147 Beyond Best 149 Nature in All Her Glory 153 Auction Fever 155 !e Party’s Over 157 Call in the Plumbers 160 In Praise of Young Wine 162 Wine Is Also a Dream 164 Chapter Seven: Wine Shadows 169 !e Crazed Giant 170 Only Endure 172 Burning Vines 174 Wine’s Transactional Flaw 176 !e Curse of the Vertical 180 Scored Rigid 183 Chapter Eight: Wine In A Life 189 Lucky Us 190 It’s a Tough Job 192 Hill Sages 196 An Evening with the Lilac-Berried Mutant: 198 2008 Gewurztraminer, Herrenweg de Turckheim Vieilles Vignes, Zind-Humbrecht Tears and !reats: 2003 Tokaji Aszú, 201 6 Puttonyos, Disznóko Knowing and Loving 203 !e Ethnologist in the Cellar 206 Up the Steep Hill 209 Mille Fois Morte, Mille Fois Revécue: 211 2008 Chateau Musar Blanc All Quiet: 2016 Bouzeron, de Villaine 213 Lessons from the Laureate 216 Meanings that Nourish: 2003 Château Meyney, 219 Saint-Estèphe, half-bottle Chapter Nine: Against Wine Worldliness 223 Wine and Astonishment 224 Chapter Ten: Three Last Wines 237 !e Startled Hind: 2012 Pouilly-Fumé, 238 Haute Densité, Château de Tracy Unsettled: 2014 Cannonau di Sardegna, 240 Mamuthone, Giuseppe Sedilesu Restoration: 2018 Saint-Mont, La Madeleine 243 de Saint-Mont, Producteurs Plaimont Glossary 247 Chronology 255 Acknowledgements 259 Index 261