{"id":5219,"date":"2011-12-08T02:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2011-12-08T02:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:21:34","slug":"washington-post-wine-columnist-picks-top-3-wine-books-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/washington-post-wine-columnist-picks-top-3-wine-books-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Wine Columnist Picks Top 3 Wine Books of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/washington-post-wine-columnist-picks-top-3-wine-books-of-the-year\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5221\" title=\"The Washington Post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Washington-Post-350x64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Washington-Post-350x64.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Washington-Post-160x29.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Washington-Post-125x22.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Washington-Post.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from Dave McIntyre&#8217;s column &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With the holidays approaching, it\u2019s time to recommend books to give the wine lovers on your list. Here are\u00a0 my top three picks from among wine books released this year.<\/p>\n<p>The economic downturn has spawned a genre of wine books designed to reassure us that it\u2019s okay to drink cheap wines, and that any wine is good so long as it\u2019s cheap. Canadian writer Natalie MacLean takes another perspective in her new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a>: A Tipsy Quest for the World\u2019s Best Bargain Wines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To MacLean, bargain means high value at a reasonable price, not necessarily cheap for cheap\u2019s sake. She roams the world and meets with producers such as Wolf Blass in Australia and South Africa\u2019s Charles Back, creator of the popular Goats do Roam wines.<\/p>\n<p>Her chapter on Ontario wines had me planning a trip to Niagara Falls just so I could take the 20-mile detour to Niagara-on-the-Lake wine country. Although each chapter ends with her \u201cfield notes from a wine cheapskate,\u201d MacLean\u2019s book is a reminder that bargain wine can be an adventure, not just a lowest common denominator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more reviews of my new<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/book\/mediareviews\/unquenchable\" target=\"_blank\">wine book<\/a> <\/strong>Unquenchable here.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5222\" title=\"UnquenchableTwoBooks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8-350x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8-160x114.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8-125x89.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/UnquenchableTwoBooks8.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Dave McIntyre&#8217;s column &#8230; With the holidays approaching, it\u2019s time to recommend books to give the wine lovers on your list. Here are\u00a0 my top three picks from among wine books released this year. The economic downturn has spawned a genre of wine books designed to reassure us that it\u2019s okay to drink cheap wines, and that any wine is good so long as it\u2019s cheap. Canadian writer Natalie MacLean takes another perspective in her new book, \u201cUnquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World\u2019s Best Bargain Wines.\u201d To MacLean, bargain means high value at a reasonable price, not [&hellip;]<\/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-5219","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\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}