{"product_id":"adventures-on-the-wine-route-by-kermit-lynch-9780374538538","title":"Adventures on the Wine Route","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wine is, above all, about pleasure. Those who make it ponderous make it dull . . . If you keep an open mind and take each wine on its own terms, there is a world of magic to discover.\" So wrote the renowned wine expert Kermit Lynch in the introduction to \u003cem\u003eAdventures on the Wine Route\u003c\/em\u003e, his ultimate tour of France, especially its wine cellars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"magic\" of wine is Lynch's subject as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, northern and southern Rhone, and Burgundy. In \u003cem\u003eAdventures on the Wine Route\u003c\/em\u003e, the wine lover will find wisdom without a trace of pretension and hype. As Victor Hazan wrote, \"In Kermit Lynch's small, true, delightful book there is more understanding about what wine really is than in everything else I have read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Lynch and for \u003cem\u003eAdventures on the Wine Route\u003c\/em\u003e has not ceased since the book's initial publication thirty years ago. In 2007, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"one of the finest American books on wine.\" And in June 2012, \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e proclaimed it \"the best book on the wine business.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of vivid portraits of French vintners, memorable evocations of the French countryside, and, of course, vibrant descriptions of French wines, this new edition of \u003cem\u003eAdventures on the Wine Route\u003c\/em\u003e updates a modern classic for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47869406839020,"sku":"9780374538538","price":58.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780374538538-adventures-on-the-wine-route.jpg?v=1782877365","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/adventures-on-the-wine-route-by-kermit-lynch-9780374538538","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}