Once or twice she got a little too far into the weeds for me but I learned – so that’s a plus. She places the reader among the wine makers and the drinkers, the buyers, the purists and the high rollers. I would liken it a bit to a religious calling.īianca Bosker’s extensive research is apparent. It’s astounding and impressive and I wouldn’t want to be one for all the wine in France. Sure I’d always heard of sommeliers who know everything one should know about wines but until I read this book I didn’t fully appreciate everything that informs a sommelier. That’s the extent of my relationship with wine – I know when something tastes good to me and that’s it. I prefer it over other alcoholic beverages. My take I occasionally enjoy a glass or two of wine and have a couple of favorites. Thus begins a year and a half long adventure that takes the reader inside elite tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, a California mass market wine “factory,” and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as Bosker attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what’s the big deal about wine? Counterintuitive, compulsively readable, and hilarious, Cork Dork illuminates how tasting better can help us live better-and will change the way you drink wine forever. Astounded by their fanatical dedication and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, Bosker abandoned her screen-centric life and set out to discover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a “cork dork.” Where she tasted “wine,” these master sommeliers detected not only complex flavor profiles, but entire histories and geographies.

Until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world in which people could, after a single sip, identify the grape a bottle was made from, in what year, and where it was produced-within acres. Title: CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Tasteĭescription: Like many of us, amateur drinker and professional tech reporter Bianca Bosker saw wine as a way to unwind at the end of a long day, or a nice thing to have with dinner-and that was about it.

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