Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters

Nossiter, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0374272573 / ISBN 13: 9780374272579

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, U.S.A., 2009

About this Item

First American Edition. Book has no internal or external markings, and is clean and tight. DJ is not price-clipped, and has no tears, chips or folds, and is bright and clean.light wear along front edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374272573
• ISBN 13: 9780374272579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Jonathan Nossiter, acclaimed filmmaker and former sommelier, had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father s fingertip. For him, wine is memory in its most liquid and dynamic form, as essential an expression of culture as cinema, books, baseball, painting, even sex. With great wit and passion, he celebrates wine and its enthusiasts and defends both from those who tell us what to drink and how to think about it.In Liquid Memory, the American expatriate investigates the infinite mysteries of terroir, the historical sense of place that makes wine a living, thrilling expression of cultural identity that can stretch back centuries. The book is a deliriously joyful master class in locating the soul of a wine, and in learning to trust your own palate and desires. Nossiter, who has already created an uproar in the world of wine with his film Mondovino, arms us against the tyranny of snobs, critics,

About the Author

Jonathan Nossiter is a film director and former sommelier. His feature films include Resident Alien; Sunday, which won the Best Film and Best Screenplay prizes at the Sundance Film Festival; Signs & Wonders, which starred Charlotte Rampling; and Mondovino, which was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, the setting of his new film, Rio Sex Comedy, which stars Rampling, Bill Pullman, and Irène Jacob. Liquid Memory is his first book.