Matt Kramer on Wine: A Matchless Collection of Columns, Essays, and Observations by America's Most Original and Lucid Wine Writer SIGNED FIRST EDITION
Language: English
Published by Sterling Epicure, New York, 2010
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First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Matt Kramer in ink at half-title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 334pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. A small spot of soiling to rear cover of jacket. Bound in purple paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable signed first printing of this collection of essays by one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Oenophiles know: Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. Author of the classic book Making Sense of Wine, Kramer has written about the subject for 32 years-and his full-page column in Wine Spectator has appeared in every issue for the last 14 years. The time is ripe for a retrospective, and here it is, covering topics from terroir to glassware to the various grapes and regions and personalities. Most of the essays are drawn from his work in Wine Spectator and The New York Sun, along with excerpts from his books. The material remains fresh, vibrant, and compulsively readable.(Publisher). Signed by Matt Kramer in ink at half-title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 334pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. A small spot of soiling to rear cover of jacket. Bound in purple paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable signed first printing of this collection of essays by one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Oenophiles know: Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. Author of the classic book Making Sense of Wine, Kramer has written about the subject for 32 years-and his full-page column in Wine Spectator has appeared in every issue for the last 14 years. The time is ripe for a retrospective, and here it is, covering topics from terroir to glassware to the various grapes and regions and personalities. Most of the essays are drawn from his work in Wine Spectator and The New York Sun, along with excerpts from his books. The material remains fresh, vibrant, and compulsively readable.(Publisher).…
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- Title
- Matt Kramer on Wine: A Matchless Collection of Columns, Essays, and Observations by America's Most Original and Lucid Wine Writer SIGNED FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Kramer, Matt
- Publisher
- Sterling Epicure, New York
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1402771649
- ISBN 13
- 9781402771644
- Edition
- First Edition.
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The material remains fresh, vibrant, and compulsively readable.
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Ever perceptive and ever contrarian, Kramer in his chatty, conversational writings has the rare ability to spot and to debunk the pretentious and the avaricious in the world of fine wine without ever belittling either winemakers or wine consumers. This anthology brings together articles that Kramer has contributed to Wine Spectator and the late New York Sun. Kramer unabashedly loves French wines from Burgundy to Alsace, but he finds Bordeaux bottlings less than honestly produced and chateau proprietors more interested in immense profit than in genuine quality. He respects California winemakers, but finds some of them too often diluting value with volume and taking advantage of lax regulations to gouge consumers. Kramer also finds fault with other wine writers and gullible consumers whose taste too readily fall prey to mere marketing hype. Essays from earlier decades often have brief appendixes that clarify or update their contents. Kramer stands as a great demystifier of wine. --Mark Knoblauch
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