Book Review: A Year of Wine by Tyler Coleman
Posted On: January 28, 2010 – 2:33 am
Review by Brooke Cheshier. When I first slipped into A Year of Wine: Perfect Pairings, Great Buys, and What to Sip for Each Season , I worried it would be too formulaic. I am drawn toward in-depth histories (anything by the Kladstrups), poetic memoirs (Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher’s Love by the Glass springs to mind), and basically any book that feeds me my wine knowledge indirectly, though story, instead of through instruction. Since I evidently don’t like to know I’m receiving an education, I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about what was basically a one-year manual for wine drinking. I thought that Tyler Colman, aka Dr. Vino , was going to tell me exactly what to drink. In what months. And for what occasion. What I found as I turned through the pages – and the seasons – was a wine drinking guide, full of suggestions (many specific) to amplify any and every wine drinking situation. Colman covers his bases and somehow manages to provide structure for a book (Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall. Jan. – Dec.) that falls far short of formulaic. He provides the reader with everything from a basic overview of…
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