Château Lafite: The Almanac

Author: Saskia de Rothschild
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080204203
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winemakers Éric and Saskia de Rothschild lead readers through 150 vintages of Château Lafite, sharing scientific and climatic data and visual memories since the family's arrival in 1868. Over the past 150 years, six generations of the Rothschild family have attended to the winemaking tradition, developing Château Lafite's reputation and transforming this classified Premier Grand Cru into a benchmark for fine wine in Bordeaux. Discover how this occurred and what actually lies behind Lafite's label through stories from the tightly-knit team of men and women who tend to Lafite wines. A chronology introducing each of the 150 vintages includes informative tasting notes, meteorological aspects, and the grape blends that mark each vintage. An archival gem has been unearthed for each year: from the harvesters' menu in 1922 to portraits by master photographers like Robert Doisneau, Richard Avedon, and Paolo Roversi. A fold-out original illustration by M/M Paris tracing the winemaker's month-by-month activity from vine to wine. The Lafite story--illustrated here with historical documents, press clippings, and photographs--combines deep respect for tradition with a commitment to evolve with the times, protecting Lafite's singular, vibrant, and evolving legacy for the next 150 years.

The Billionaire's Vinegar

Author: Benjamin Wallace
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307338789
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we meet a gallery of intriguing players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. “Part detective story, part wine history, this is one juicy tale, even for those with no interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek

Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine

Author: Michael Broadbent
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151007042
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
The ultimate report on the world's vintage wines is offered by the man the "Wine Spectator" calls "the world's most experienced taster."

The Spectator

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1054

Book Description

The Wine Lover's Daughter

Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature—was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Château Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.

Bordeaux

Author: Charles Cocks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Vino Argentino

Author: Laura Catena
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811873307
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Presents a tour of Argentina's wine region, with information about the climate, local attractions, wine varieties, and local cuisine of each location.

The Wines of Bordeaux

Author: Clive Coates
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520235731
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 732

Book Description
Written by the leading international expert on French wine and sumptuously produced with a wealth of color illustrations and stunning line drawings, this book covers all the vineyards of Bordeaux.

Introduction to Pauillac Wines

Author: Miroslav Kucera
Publisher: Miroslav Kucera
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
Millions of tourists are coming to France every year. Plenty of them enjoy sun on the beaches of French Riviera or Atlantic Ocean. Others want to see Paris, the castles in the Loire Valley or invasion beaches in Normandy. I am sure that majority of the adult visitors’ tastes some French wine during lunch or dinner in restaurant or simply buy a bottle as gift or souvenir.

Alain Elkann Interviews

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614286325
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.