Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country (At Table)

214 Pages·2008·2.17 MB·English

by  Robert V. Camuto

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© 2008 by Robert V. Camuto
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
All photographs courtesy the author. ∞
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Camuto, Robert V.
Corkscrewed : adventures in the new French
wine country / Robert V. Camuto.
p. cm. — (At table)
isbn 978-0-8032-7635-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Wine and wine making—France—Anecdotes.
2. Wineries—France—Anecdotes. I. Title.
II. Title: Adventures in the new French wine
country. III. Series: At table series.
tp553.c256 2008
641.2'20944—dc22 2008024069
Designed and set in Sabon
by Ashley Muehlbauer.
To Dantino, who made ’94 the finest vintage.
And to winemakers everywhere who resist
doing n’importe quoi.

Quickly bring me a beaker of wine, so that I
may whet my mind and say something clever.
—aristophanes
We are all mortal until the first kiss and
the second glass of wine. —eduardo
galeano, The Book of Embraces

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illustrations x
acknowledgments xi

Introduction: As the Corkscrew Turns 1 T
1 Rebel with a Château 13
2 The Wrath of Grapes 39
3 Among the Mayonnaise 55
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4 The Madman of Bandol 69
5 A Brother’s Blood 79
6 Drinking with Uncle Jacques 89
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7 Poop and People in the New French Wine Country 107
8 The Soul of Côte Rôtie 119
9 Remembering Gaillac 135
10 Heaven, Hell, or Burgundy 149 T
11 The Moon, the Stars, and the Loire 161
12 Where Goes Chatus 177

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appendix: featured winemakers 193