{"id":5339,"date":"2011-12-05T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2011-12-21T01:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T01:50:58","slug":"helping-wine-shoppers-buy-15-wines-that-taste-as-good-as-30-wines-david-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/helping-wine-shoppers-buy-15-wines-that-taste-as-good-as-30-wines-david-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Wine Shoppers Buy $15 wines that taste as good as $30 wines – David Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After reading Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a>, I can state three things with confidence about Natalie MacLean: 1) She likes to drink wine 2) She knows a great deal about it 3) She wants to share some of her experiences and perspectives with you to help you find bargain wines that don\u2019t taste like they came out of a box.<\/p>\n

That makes this book an enjoyable read. It\u2019s joyfully subjective, with MacLean sharing her insights into both her visits to several wine-making regions and the taste of the wines. Her mission, simply put, \u201cis to demystify wine price in relation to quality,\u201d in other words, helping wine shopper pick out $15 wines that taste as good as $30 or $50 ones.<\/p>\n

MacLean\u2019s approach is best summed up by the label on a Renard Rose bottle that she shares; \u201cThe nose suggests smoky strawberries, raspberry cigars and blah, blah, blah\u2026Isn\u2019t wine indescribably fun? Just enjoy it!\u201d<\/p>\n

So we, the readers, get to tag along as MacLean enjoys visiting several locales that make good, inexpensive wines, including Australia, South Africa, Argentina, and even Canada. In each stop, she shares the history of the wine-making region and notes which varietal it’s best known for. She also visits several wineries, relating the stories of the winemakers, which are often interesting in their own right. Winemaking is a field that draws many colorful personalities, and MacLean has a knack for rendering them vividly.<\/p>\n

This is a personal book, with MacLean proudly abandoning any claim at objectivity and instead sharing her reactions, which makes sense, since much of the charm of wine is intangible. By unabashedly giving us her own personal take on wine, MacLean does us a great service; we\u2019re free to disagree with her, but at least we know where she\u2019s coming from.<\/p>\n

All in all, I learned a great deal from Unquenchable<\/strong><\/a> and had a good time doing it. Outside of pouring the wine for you, there\u2019s not too much more you can ask from a wine guide than that.<\/p>\n

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

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After reading Unquenchable, I can state three things with confidence about Natalie MacLean: 1) She likes to drink wine 2) She knows a great deal about it 3) She wants to share some of her experiences and perspectives with you to help you find bargain wines that don\u2019t taste like they came out of a box. That makes this book an enjoyable read. It\u2019s joyfully subjective, with MacLean sharing her insights into both her visits to several wine-making regions and the taste of the wines. Her mission, simply put, \u201cis to demystify wine price in relation to quality,\u201d in other […]<\/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-5339","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\/5339","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=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}