Food & Wine USA - (10)October 2020

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22 OCTOBER 2020

WINE SIMPLE

BY ALDO SOHM AND

CHRISTINE MUHLKE

F&W Associate Restaurant

Editor Oset Babür says: “So

many beginner wine books

feel patronizing or cutesy.

Wine Simple reads like it really

respects the beginner’s curios-

ity and baseline knowledge

level.” ($33, penguin

randomhouse.com)

CORK DORK

BY BIANCA BOSKER

Want to be a sommelier? The

highs and lows of the pursuit

are all in Bianca Bosker’s

memoir. Even when being

critical (read: serving wine at

absurd $1,500-a-plate tasting

dinners), Bosker never loses

sight of her underlying love for

wine. ($18 , penguin

randomhouse.com)

THE SCIENCE OF WINE

BY JAMIE GOODE

Jamie Goode, holder of a PhD

in plant biology and a wine col-

umnist in England, takes dense

wine topics and renders them

layman-friendly. If you’re curi-

ous about sulfur in winemaking,

what happens in your brain

while you’re drinking wine, and

more, this deep dive is for you.

($40, ucpress.edu)

WINDOWS ON THE WORLD

COMPLETE WINE COURSE

BY KEVIN ZRALY

Kevin Zraly has built a reputa-

tion as the best wine educa-

tor, period, and this book is a

distillation of his expertise. The

fact that it’s sold over 3 million

copies over 35 years tells you

a little something about its

effectiveness. ($28 ,

barnesandnoble.com)

Build Your Best Wine Library Nine reads to

make you unimpeachably wine-savvy

By Ray Isle

THE BOOKSHELF

photography by VICTOR PROTASIO

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