Bøker av Grant Reynolds

From grape to glass, this highly readable, charmingly illustrated guide will teach you everything you need to know to enjoy wine. With its fun, conversational tone and funky maps, infographics, and illustrations, How to Drink Wine is a brand-new kind of wine resource. Instead of drilling down into the nitty-gritty details of one specific region or varietal, it gives a digestible overview for anyone who''s looking to learn the basics or up their wine game. Award-winning sommelier Grant Reynolds and The Infatuation co-founder and CEO Chris Stang help boost your wine confidence in the most unpretentious way with information on navigating the store, dissecting a label, tasting in public without looking like a jerk, building your vocab (hello, "tannins" and "cuvée"), pairing your wine with social situations (think brunch, beach days, and pizza nights). They walk you through how to figure out exactly what you like to drink, framing it through the lens of the most widely accessible types--for instance, if pinot noir is your usual jam, try a bottle from Beaujolais next time.With this book, a wine key, and just one kind of glass (really!), you''re sure to become the resident wine expert--or at least be able to fake it really well.

A one-of-a-kind exploration of the relationship between culture, politics, history, and wine. Vintage refers to the year grapes are harvested, and that vintage holds meaning. You can look up the weather in any almanac, but some stories are known only to insiders--until now. In this wine book Grant Reynolds, award-winning sommelier, deciphers these signatures to reveal the impact of marketing and mentorship, technology and trends, and influencers old and new. Beginning in the late eighteenth century with a tale about Thomas Jefferson's secret White House stash and spanning over a quarter of a millennium to social media's effect on chenin blanc's popularity, The Wine List explores both the chemistry and sociology that have made vintages taste a certain way, fetch a certain price, or go extinct altogether. Featuring sidebars on topics like the taste of climate change, mini timelines capturing significant historical moments, and collage-style illustration, these entries solidify the idea that every bottle is a product of a particular moment in time. A must-read for fans of wine books like Wine Folly or The World Atlas of Wine, The Wine List is a fresh new wine bible perfect for anyone looking for bar cart books or gifts for wine lovers.