While flipping through the 2nd Edition of the Oxford Companion to Wine, I found this picture accompanied by the caption:
Each year Robert Parker visits a class of six-year-olds in a private school in Bordeaux to give them a talk about France’s Vineyards
What the hell? I hope he doesn’t still do that, because that’s kind of a strange annual tradition.
By the way, the Vancouver Public Library has a pretty killer wine selection. I picked up Julian Jeffs’ The Wines of Spain. There’s also a separate shelf with older books from the 50s & 60s on nearly every matter – Port, Madeira, Sherry, Sauternes – which are cool to leaf through. Not to mention, free wifi and a little peace and quiet.
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2 Responses:
May 21st, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Cool, I should check out the library someday. Good books on Spain are few and far between.
And I agree, that Parker ‘tradition’ is definitely creepy. Great (creepy) photo, though.
May 21st, 2010 at 8:25 pm
I agree… Spain is one of the major wine producing countries that I don’t own, what I would consider to be, a wine ‘bible.’ The one I mentioned above, Julian Jeffs ‘The Wines of Spain,’ seems to be pretty good so far, yet I’m not sure I’d put it in the same league as A New France or Vino Italiano for instance.
I’d love to hear of a great Spanish wine books if anyone has a trusted go-to.