And taste is everything in the world of wine-where expert sommeliers learn to describe wines so precisely that they can name a product's year, grape, and region with their eyes closed. Beginning as a “cellar rat” in a New York City restaurant, a job that demands mastery of a complicated filing system and the navigation of a dangerous storage process, she then dives into free wine rounds as she puts it, getting drunk by noon and hungover by two, always looking for the next bottle to refine her palate and teach her about taste. COOKING Mixing memoir and culinary investigation, Bosker (coauthor, Original Copies) takes readers on her 18-month-long journey learning about wine. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me To Live for Taste. In this column, wine leads me down a winding path. As Lewis Carroll’s Alice so aptly points out, “What is the use of a book…without pictures or conversations?” Welcome to Readers’ Advisory (RA) Crossroads, where books, movies, music, and other media converge and whole-collection RA service goes where it may.
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