{"id":6163,"date":"2011-12-16T02:04:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T02:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2012-01-16T02:08:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:08:18","slug":"if-you-only-buy-one-book-about-wine-in-your-life-make-it-unquenchable-fiesta-farms-food-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/if-you-only-buy-one-book-about-wine-in-your-life-make-it-unquenchable-fiesta-farms-food-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Only Buy One Book About Wine in Your Life Make it Unquenchable – Fiesta Farms Food Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ivy Knight, blogger for Fiesta Farms and contributor to the Globe & Mail<\/p>\n

If You Only Buy One Book About Wine in Your Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make it \u201cUnquenchable<\/strong><\/a>: A Tipsy Quest for the World\u2019s Best Bargain Wines\u201d by Natalie MacLean. The best\u00adselling of author of \u201cRed, White and Drunk All Over\u201d is pos\u00adsi\u00adbly the world\u2019s most engag\u00ading and down-to-earth wine writer.<\/p>\n

In this book the Ottawa-based MacLean takes you on a world tour of Australia, Africa, Germany and more, meet\u00ading wine\u00admak\u00aders and tast\u00ading their wines. She takes us along for the ride and makes it so much fun that you don\u2019t even real\u00adize you\u2019re learn\u00ading more about Reisling than you ever had and you\u2019re not bored or lost or rolling your eyes.<\/p>\n

Each chap\u00adter con\u00adcludes with \u201cField Notes From\u00a0 A Wine Cheapskate\u201d, this sec\u00adtion will come in handy when you\u2019re perus\u00ading the shelves at the LCBO or try\u00ading to plan a din\u00adner around a spe\u00adcific bot\u00adtle. It lists the top value pro\u00adduc\u00aders, then describes a per\u00adfect menu for their wine.<\/p>\n

From Niagara she rec\u00adom\u00admends Cave Spring Cellars, Fielding Estate, Rosewood Estates, Tawse and many more. What\u2019s help\u00adful is that she intro\u00adduces you to the wine\u00admak\u00aders so you feel you know them, that helps you remem\u00adber the win\u00adery name when you\u2019re choos\u00ading your next bot\u00adtle from the cellar.<\/p>\n

This book speaks to most of us wine drinkers, we want the best wines pos\u00adsi\u00adble for the low\u00adest price. Thankfully we can cut down on the amount of swill we unwit\u00adtingly open in the pur\u00adsuit of a bar\u00adgain if we fol\u00adlow some of MacLean\u2019s tips. She sug\u00adgests readers:<\/p>\n

\u201ctake a chance on lesser-known grapes. Varieties like mal\u00adbec just don\u2019t have the \u2018brand aware\u00adness\u2019 and cachet of caber\u00adnet sauvi\u00adgnon and mer\u00adlot. Therefore, pro\u00adduc\u00aders must com\u00adpete more aggres\u00adsively on price. In this book, you\u2019ll dis\u00adcover lots of grapes that you may not have heard of before.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also sug\u00adgests you look at regions that entered the North American wine mar\u00adket a lit\u00adtle later, new\u00adcom\u00aders want\u00ading to prove them\u00adselves. With her tips you\u2019ll be well armed to bat\u00adtle the sea of bad cheap wine and unim\u00adpres\u00adsive expen\u00adsive wine.<\/p>\n

Take that Indigo gift cer\u00adtifi\u00adcate you got in your stock\u00ading and buy this book. You won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n

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

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By Ivy Knight, blogger for Fiesta Farms and contributor to the Globe & Mail If You Only Buy One Book About Wine in Your Life Make it \u201cUnquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World\u2019s Best Bargain Wines\u201d by Natalie MacLean. The best\u00adselling of author of \u201cRed, White and Drunk All Over\u201d is pos\u00adsi\u00adbly the world\u2019s most engag\u00ading and down-to-earth wine writer. In this book the Ottawa-based MacLean takes you on a world tour of Australia, Africa, Germany and more, meet\u00ading wine\u00admak\u00aders and tast\u00ading their wines. She takes us along for the ride and makes it so much fun that you […]<\/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-6163","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\/6163","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=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}