'A hint of buttercups on the nose'... 'A lively little wine with a winsome sense of humour'... 'Oh, you can't drink this with that'... There is a certain, all-too-widespread way of talking and writing about wine that is both enormously infuriating and utterly incomprehensible. Why can't someone cut through all the pretension and the flowery language for once, and tell us the things we really want to know? Do you actually get a much better bottle of wine if you pay much more for it? Do the supermarket chains, with their vast ...
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'A hint of buttercups on the nose'... 'A lively little wine with a winsome sense of humour'... 'Oh, you can't drink this with that'... There is a certain, all-too-widespread way of talking and writing about wine that is both enormously infuriating and utterly incomprehensible. Why can't someone cut through all the pretension and the flowery language for once, and tell us the things we really want to know? Do you actually get a much better bottle of wine if you pay much more for it? Do the supermarket chains, with their vast bulk-buying power, really offer the best bargains? Why are classic wines like Chianti. Muscadet and Rioja so often disappointing? Is champagne worth the money? Can you truly taste the difference between some of the world's most popular wines? And does it honestly matter which wines you drink with which foods? In You Heard It Through the Grapevine, one of Britain's most iconoclastic and witty wine writers takes the wine industry to task, and provides answers for everyone who stands in Sainsbury's wondering what to buy. But Stuart Walton's acerbic study goes further, for such issues are merely symptoms of an industry both adapting to, and sometimes taking advantag
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