Funny, counterintuitive and compulsively readable, Cork Dork does for drinking what Kitchen Confidential did for dining out, ensuring you’ll never reach blindly for the second cheapest bottle on the menu again. Until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world in which people could, after a single sip of wine, identify the grape it was made from, in what year, and where it was produced down to the exact location, within acres. In the book, Bosker describes finding a mentor in Morgan, an actual sommelier at a top New York City restaurant. The Cork Dork has received many fond comparisons since we opened from a candle lit Parisian cellar bar to your Nan’s old kitchen!

Settle down with a glass of wine and savor this rollicking and lively tale of Bianca Bosker’s journey from rank amateur to ‘cork dork.In this delightfully written and keenly observed book, Bianca Bosker helps us become connoisseurs not only of wine but also of people whose passions would more aptly be described as obsessions. In the op-ed, Bosker attacked one of the sacred cows of the wine industry – the idea that the fewer chemicals you add to your wine, the better. Treasury and others of their ilk should run and grab this concept for a press release,” wrote Alice Feiring on her blog. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Cork Dork : A Wine-Fuelled Journey into the Art of Sommeliers and the Science of Taste Bosker, Bianca More by this author.

The Kitchen Confidential of wine: Read this book, and you’ll never be intimidated by wine—or wine snobs—again.One red and one white, both of which are from vineyards that I have had the pleasure of visiting and learning from the experts that run them. And one of the things that I hope to do with the book is to show people how to taste for themselves, because I think that is a much stronger foundation to create thoughtful drinkers than to say, ‘This is good wine, and this isn’t.

Then in a matter of seconds they use the Court of Master Sommelier template to attempt an accurate assessment of the wine.It has a past and it expresses the personality and character of a people and a region, especially in the Old World, Asimov explained.