At this point, most anyone who has listened to me speak (or read my blog posts) about Riesling for more than six seconds is (painfully) aware of my love-affair with the noble wine grape, I consider it probably the greatest white wine variety due to its uncanny ability to retain a signature while also elegantly…
Category: wine books
Zen Wine: David White’s Sippin’ On Top Of The World
I seem to be in ‘book mode’ the last week or two. I’m a bit of a bookworm, so it’s fun for me to mess around at the intersection of wine and the printed word. I still don’t own an eReader device, by the way – I prefer Book 1.0 – you know, the kind…
Debunking the Myths of Wine’s History (A Book Review… Sort of…)
I find wine history fascinating. This is because I’m a geek not only about wine, but also about history in general – a trait I picked up in undergrad when I roomed with two good-natured History majors at Saint Joseph’s University. My undergrad studies centered on English Lit., and so the combination of overdosing on…
Wine, Words & Love Affairs (A Book Review)
et·y·mol·o·gy Pronunciation: -jē Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural et·y·mol·o·gies Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy Date: 14th century 1 : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is…