{"id":37717,"date":"2019-02-24T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37717"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:00:34","slug":"qotd-wine-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/24\/qotd-wine-books\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Wine books"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are three categories of wine book. The first are guides, like those of Robert Parker, which seek to offer practical help in the purchase and consumption of wines \u2013 though their effects are often contrary, adding feverishness to the acquisition (\u2018I\u2019ve landed a 95-pointer!\u2019) and self-consciousness to the drinking (\u2018Did you get black truffles on the nose?\u2019). The second category consists of historical surveys and ch\u00e2teau profiles, the latter often little more than disguised puffery, since the author will have been given privileged access to the archives, and will have been vetted, if not actually chosen, by the ch\u00e2teau, will have been wined and dined until he \u2013 or, occasionally, she \u2013 is practically wearing the ch\u00e2teau\u2019s label as a blazer badge. Famous wine houses are nowadays international businesses, and no less good at promoting themselves than Nike and Benetton. Thirdly, there are books of almost no practical value but which appeal to the nostalgic, fetishistic or cork-sniffing side of oenophilia: celebrations, anthologies, reminiscences of the wine country and its colourful characters, evocations of people and vintages often long since dead. The wine buff will often buy such useless treasures second-hand and will employ them to induce harmless reverie, rather like leafing through an old Sears Roebuck catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Barnes, <a href=\"https:\/\/literaryreview.co.uk\/did-you-get-black-truffles-on-the-nose\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Did You Get Black Truffles on the Nose?&#8221;, <em>Literary Review<\/em><\/a>, 1994-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three categories of wine book. The first are guides, like those of Robert Parker, which seek to offer practical help in the purchase and consumption of wines \u2013 though their effects are often contrary, adding feverishness to the acquisition (\u2018I\u2019ve landed a 95-pointer!\u2019) and self-consciousness to the drinking (\u2018Did you get black truffles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,131],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-37717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37718,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37717\/revisions\/37718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}