{"id":4930,"date":"2011-11-17T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2011-11-27T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:48:09","slug":"an-enjoyable-romp-around-the-world-of-wine-opinionated-wine-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/an-enjoyable-romp-around-the-world-of-wine-opinionated-wine-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"An Enjoyable Romp Around the World of Wine – Opinionated Wine Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>David Locicero<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Unquenchable Hits The Spot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalie MacLean\u2019s newest book, Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a>, is an enjoyable romp around the world of wine.\u00a0 I received a review copy of the book shortly after publication.\u00a0 In this volume, she travels the world looking for great economical wines to drink with dinner every night of the week, and for Sunday lunch.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun idea and allows her to explore wines from Australia, Germany and South Africa, among others.<\/p>\n

Natalie MacLean\u2019s prose is effortless and easy to ready.\u00a0 The book was entertaining and I learned things without feeling like I was being lectured.\u00a0 She starts off explaining her search for economical wines appropriate for every day dinners.\u00a0 Living in Northern California, I often forget that finding good wine at a reasonable price can be difficult for folks who live in other locations.\u00a0 I personally can count the number of times I have paid more than $40 for a bottle of wine on one hand and still have fingers left over.\u00a0 I consider a $40 bottle expensive.\u00a0 Natalie MacLean is a kindred soul: in Unquenchable she looks for good wines in the $15 to $40 range.<\/p>\n

She explores the wine worlds of Australian Shiraz, German Riesling, Canadian Pinot Noir, South African Pinotage, Sicilian Nero d\u2019avola, Argentine Malbec, Portuguese Ports and Provencal Rose.\u00a0 She meets with noted wine makers and winery owners in each region, tasting as she goes, discussing the strengths of those wines and the history of the wine making in the region.\u00a0 Taking us along on her journey, we are introduced to interesting and passionate people who are making remarkable wines.\u00a0 We are in good company throughout the journey.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is my own mixed Sicilian and German heritage, but it was the chapters about Riesling and Nero d\u2019avola as well as the chapter on Malbec that I found most compelling personally.\u00a0 Though learning about the Portuguese Ports and Provencal Rose\u2019s were also very interesting to me as well.\u00a0 The entire book is informative and entertaining and I enjoyed tagging along with the author on her journey, eager to see where she\u2019d take me next and what wines she would be tasting.<\/p>\n

Each chapter ends with some very helpful tips for finding good economical wines from the specific region, as well as tactics that apply to any region.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be using these tips myself as I continue my own explorations of the world of wine.\u00a0 She provides wine recommendations that you can use as you go through your local wine shop as well as suggestions for further reading about each region.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, I felt a twinge of professional jealousy reading about the far flung locations she was able to visit in preparation to write this book.\u00a0 But Natalie MacLean\u2019s good natured and lack of pretense is evident in her writing, so those twinges were fleeting.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019ve finished Unquenchable, I\u2019m eager to read her other book, Red, White and Drunk All Over.\u00a0 If you are new to wine or an accomplished wine drinker, you will find this book both entertaining and informative.<\/p>\n

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

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David Locicero Unquenchable Hits The Spot Natalie MacLean\u2019s newest book, Unquenchable, is an enjoyable romp around the world of wine.\u00a0 I received a review copy of the book shortly after publication.\u00a0 In this volume, she travels the world looking for great economical wines to drink with dinner every night of the week, and for Sunday lunch.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun idea and allows her to explore wines from Australia, Germany and South Africa, among others. Natalie MacLean\u2019s prose is effortless and easy to ready.\u00a0 The book was entertaining and I learned things without feeling like I was being lectured.\u00a0 She starts […]<\/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-4930","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\/4930","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=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}