| HOW TO LOVE WINE A Memoir and Manifesto Eric Asimov New York: William Morrow, October 2012 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-06-180252-2 | ||||
| ISBN 0-06-180252-2 | 278pp. | HC | $24.99 | |
| 25: | "Even as you probe deeply into wines from ever-smaller parcels of terroir..." |
| This word is never defined. However, its approximate meaning is clear from context. |
| 84: | "Imagine if a music critic, reviewing a recording, described a symphony in terms of wattage, intermodulation, and impedance output, or even worse, tried to enumerate the various notes and chords." |
| Word order: S/B "output impedance".1 |
| 86: | "I've chosen a 2006 malbec from Argentina..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "Malbec". |
| 123: | "Burgundy? 'I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff,' Bob Dylan sang..." |
| Nit: the quotation leaves out a pronoun: S/B "but soon I hit". |
| 131: | "I didn't particularly understand the physics of aging..." |
| Wrong science: S/B "the chemistry of aging".2 |
| 213: | "That breakdown is a fine basis for designing your own case, if it came down to that." |
| Mistakenly changes tense: S/B "it comes down". |
| 219: | "I considered it a great sign that he was willing to hazard a little Indonesian joint on Ninth Avenue..." |
| Sensimilla? No; this clearly means the other slang meaning of joint. But I couldn't resist. |
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