A Thousand Vines by Pescaline Lepeltier is extremely well translated. Really touched on the geeky nerdy side of wine.
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Bottle Shock’s youtube channel (Formerly wine for the people) not being on here is criminal. Great content, and lots to learn. Also, the Different Drop guys do a great job on highlighting Aussie producers.
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Yes! i can feel his & Her personality through the screen. I envy his life, traveling and making content on wine regions
Out of print, but fun and findable
Don’t see mention of The Grape Nation podcast (Sam Benrubi) - great guests, fun format, and broad coverage of (mostly) wine topics.
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The English edition is indeed a good translation. More importantly, One Thousand Vines is a book full of different ideas about wine, many of them exciting. It’ll be the one book I’ll recommend these days to any readers getting into wine.
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This just popped up on YouTube. Some serious bottle porn.
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“These aren’t wines meant to be drunk. They’re meant to be admired.”
Shame to take multiple cases of the same wine out of circulation and hold them until they are past their drinking windows. Presumably many will re-enter the market when he dies.
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Yeah its one thing to treat a bottle of something that’s already undrinkable, like Napoleon’s mouthwash, as a museum piece. But buying a case of DRC every year with no intention of ever drinking it is pretentious behavior.
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I did find the scene interesting of him driving from producer to producer, picking up boxes of highly sought after wines that were destined to sit in his “wine museum”.
The degree of hubris didn’t fully come through until the final shot of him in royal garb, surveying his subterranean domain.
Fascinating story, though, and a fun watch.