Corkbuzz Online | Bookclub: What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking
October 7 2020 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PMJoin our Corkbuzz Book Club, open to all. Our book club will include an hour-long discussion on some key points of the story. Read all of the book, part of it, or none of it, but join in on the discussion! A list of topics for discussion will be sent with the zoom link the morning of our "Book Club". Next up in our "importer reads" is Terry Theise's What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking: In Praise of the Sublime.
About the book:
What makes a wine worth drinking? As celebrated wine writer Terry Theise explains in this gem of a book, answering that seemingly simple question requires us to look beyond what’s in our glass to consider much bigger questions about beauty, harmony, soulfulness, and the values we hold dear. Most of all, Theise shows, what makes a wine worth drinking is its authenticity. When we choose small-scale, family-produced wine over the industrially produced stuff, or when we opt for subtle, companionable wines over noisy, vulgar ones, we not only experience their origins with the greatest possible clarity and detail—we also gain a new perspective on ourselves and the world we inhabit. In this way, artisanal wine is not only the key to good drinking; it is also the key to a good life.
An unforgettable literary journey into the heart and soul of wine, What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking is a gift to be cherished from a writer “whose id is directly connected to his mouth” (Eric Asimov, The New York Times).