Unquenchable!: A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines

We wine writers tend to be obsessive souls. How else can a person stay fascinated throughout a career with just one drink? Compare us to food writers: Over their lives theyll encounter thousands of ingredients and ways of combining and cooking them. Wine by contrast is just fermented grapes. But it engages our primary senses-smell taste feel-in a way that is both hedonistic and cerebral. Thats why Ive spent the past several years traipsing around the world visiting wineries tasting their offerings and searching for the worlds best cheap wines. The narrative is as familiar as Arthurs quest for the grail and as naive as Dr. Seusss plaintive search for the affirmative in Are You My Mother? With her signature conversational style Natalie MacLean takes you on a whirlwind journey through the world of wine searching for great taste at a low cost. By turns confessional-with guilty admissions from a penny-pincher who loves simple pleasures-and spirited Unquenchable is informed by MacLeans decade-long career as an award-winning wine writer. In this engaging and enlightening book MacLean recounts her adventures with the most passionate personalities in some of the most gorgeous off-beat places in the world-from the crazed vintner who explains his philosophy while speeding down the Autobahn to the Sicilian winemakers you dont want to disappoint with your tasting notes. Yet theres plenty to take away from her inspired recommendations for food pairing to lists of favorite value wines and vintners plus plenty of pointers that will enhance your own drinking pleasure.