Thinking about Wine

Publisher description -- McCoy and Walker are among today's top wine tasters and critics, but this book goes beyond tasting notes and references. The authors' prestige and position have given them access to the world's top estates and invitations to extraordinary wine gatherings, and they bring fresh insights, controversial opinions, and charming stories to their reportage. Here, for instance, are an eye-opening critique of the growing tendency to rank wines by number, an illuminating short course on matching wines with food, a firsthand account of the pitfalls of investing in wine, and an idiosyncratic tour of Bordeaux, California, and the rest of the wine world (including the Loire, Portugal, and yes, Maryland).