A Good Wine Book

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Chris Coad

Chris Coad
Decent wine-related books are as scarce as hen's teeth, but I'm really enjoying Benjamin Wallace's The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine. Well written in a sort of unadorned Sunday-Times-expos style (the outsized characters involved are more described than brought to life), it's nevertheless a real page-turner. A great story well told, very accessible for non-geeks, great for a stormy Saturday when you should've been at a Mets-Phillies game.

Score: Three burnished cherry-wood Prongs mounted on small bronze tripods, set on a green baize cloth and lightly dusted with powdered sugar.
 
It's enough to get you to stop buying '46 DRC RC at auction.

What he really doesn't get into is how much fake Y2K Mouton and so on there must be. Much easier to print a bunch of 20 dollar bills that don't get examined than $500 bills that get close scrutiny.
 
It's enough to get you to stop buying '46 DRC RC at auction.
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You too?

What he really doesn't get into is how much fake Y2K Mouton and so on there must be.
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It's true, it's very much case-focused on Rodenstock and his amazing ability to discover large caches of wine from two and three centuries ago, not much about the problem of counterfeits across the board. I guess that's a different book.
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
A great story well told, very accessible for non-geeks, great for a stormy Saturday when you should've been at a Mets-Phillies game.

Score: Three burnished cherry-wood Prongs mounted on small bronze tripods, set on a green baize cloth and lightly dusted with powdered sugar.
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But now we can look forward to a double header Sunday, and maybe a Cole Hamels Santana duel.

It's nice to see the Prongs making an appearance on Wine Disorder.

Marc
(wishing they still had the twi night double headers)
 
Who cares about the Mets. What about Murray getting sidelined by the weather while he was on the upsurge against Nadal.

And, what are they thinking rescheduling these matches so late London time!
 
I'm not familiar with this Vandergrift. Was he knocked out in the early rounds? Or perhaps a winemaker?
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Late season callup from AA when they expanded the rosters on September 1st. Left-handed specialist.
 
But now we can look forward to a double header Sunday, and maybe a Cole Hamels Santana duel.
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We're there for game 1, at 2 p.m.

It's nice to see the Prongs making an appearance on Wine Disorder.
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Precision Pronging requires more time and focus than I have most days, but the new place is energizing.
 
So at the US Open it's raining fake y2k Mouton and 46 DRC that Rodenstock found for Nadal after they called up Vandergrift from AA? But Murray came and took it on the upsurge?

I gotta read this book Chris - it sounds like a winner!
 
Chris does the book tell the story of the purported ThJ bottle dropped by Sokolin? I've heard a little about it but aren't sure if that's part of the Rodenstock story or a different one.
 
And although I enjoyed it, it loses momentum towards the end as it searches for a conclusion. It feels like an unfinished book, and with good reason - I don't think the Rodenstock story is quite over yet. I couldn't help but compare it unfavourably to Barbarians at the Gate, which I think is one of the best in the journalistic storytelling style.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Who cares about the Mets. What about Murray getting sidelined by the weather while he was on the upsurge against Nadal.

And, what are they thinking rescheduling these matches so late London time!
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I know... Watching Federer in the final is going to keep me up past my bedtime.
 
I know... Watching Federer in the final is going to keep me up past my bedtime.
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And as much as I would love to see Federer-Nadal, I am slightly intrigued by the idea of Murray in the final especially when I am surrounded by all these Brits.
 
I don't know what to think! Roger wants it to be Rafa, but Murray was such a hellhound, it'd be cool, too, to see him go on.

What I was jubliant about was Roger's return to form. Holy hell! this is why he is tactile grace and art rather than sport.
 
How about a good movie?

The King of Kong (available for instant viewing on Netflix) is one of the most captivating documentaries these eyes have seen. The movie's premise of winning the top score in Donkey Kong comes second to the poignant view into geek personalities and human nature. Oddly touching, I found myself actually cheering and booing throughout the film.

It's the Ghislaine Barthod of documentaries.
 
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