{"id":4741,"date":"2011-11-21T01:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2011-12-19T02:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:00:45","slug":"327-pages-of-wine-wit-information-adventure-stories-memories-and-lore-hoosier-wine-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/327-pages-of-wine-wit-information-adventure-stories-memories-and-lore-hoosier-wine-cellar\/","title":{"rendered":"327 Pages of Wine Wit, Information, Adventure, Stories, Memories, and Lore – Hoosier Wine Cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not just a pushover for wine books. Of the hundreds I\u2019ve bought over the years, I\u2019d like to say each one was judiciously and carefully selected, purchased only if it were of high quality and useful information. Of course, that\u2019s not the case; my shelf is filled with trifling wine books, some pretty, some not; the point is that there are a lot of books out there and, as one would expect, some are better than others.<\/p>\n

Natalie MacLean\u2019s just published Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a> goes right to the top of my list, just above her earlier book, Red, White and Drunk All Over.<\/p>\n

Unquenchable is 327 pages of wit, information, adventure, stories, memories, and lore that is so readable that it can almost be done in a single sitting.<\/p>\n

I have never met Natalie, though I am devoted to her website commentaries and was present at a banquet where she received one of her five Bert Greene Awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. I approached her new book as if I were having a conversation with a good friend.<\/p>\n

After all, Unquenchable deals with a lot of the same wine personalities and regions I have come to know over the years, so I am predisposed to chat with her about mutual experiences \u2014 plus I can verify for you that what she writes is true. That\u2019s one reason she has won so many distinguished writing awards.<\/p>\n

All of us who write about wine love to sing the praises of the grand bottles we have opened and shared, the celebrity producers we have met, the prestigious estates we have visited, and Natalie has done all of that and more. But the thrust of\u00a0Unquenchable is for Everyman. This is the first book I have seen devoted knowledgably and responsibly to the finding of exceptional wines at moderate prices. She reports on her travels from Germany to South Africa, from Niagara to Provence and South America, naming best producers, food pairings, information resources,\u00a0 as well as suggested related readings for each site she visited.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to tell you, so for more of the above and all the rest, you will have to get her book. Well done, Natalie.<\/p>\n

You can read more reviews of my new wine book<\/a> <\/strong>Unquenchable here.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not just a pushover for wine books. Of the hundreds I\u2019ve bought over the years, I\u2019d like to say each one was judiciously and carefully selected, purchased only if it were of high quality and useful information. Of course, that\u2019s not the case; my shelf is filled with trifling wine books, some pretty, some not; the point is that there are a lot of books out there and, as one would expect, some are better than others. Natalie MacLean\u2019s just published Unquenchable goes right to the top of my list, just above her earlier book, Red, White and Drunk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-unquenchable","category-books-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}