The Wine Savant - A Guide to the New Wine Culture

Today's dynamic wine culture calls for a different kind of wine book. The Wine Savant is just that: punchy, polemical, and brimming with insights to educate and entertain beginning wine drinkers and seasoned oenophiles alike. Never has the wine world had so much to offer, and never have smart decisions about value, quality, grape, and season been so difficult to make. In The Wine Savant, Michael Steinberger tramps through the world of contemporary wine-from three-buck Chuck and bucket-list Bordeaux to bottle speculators and biodynamic wineries-to give the inside scoop on the key concerns facing the new generation of wine lovers: