Tasting PleasureAcknowledgments
A Tale of Two Wine Producers
Liquid Magic – Birth of a Wine Lover
Becoming a Wine Writer
Early Days – Wine-Sodden Nights
The Old Wine Trade
Blind Tasting
First Steps Abroad
The Thirsty Tour Operator
My Very Own Imprint
Casting Adrift
A New World of Wine
Lurching Toward Respectability
Wine on the Box
Marathon Tastings, and a 1787
Mastering Wine
Distractions
The Wine Revolution, and My Cellar
A Stake in the Motherland
Discovering France’s Stomach
Some Very Special Bottles
The Ball and Chain Cast Off
Half Centuries
On Writing About Wine
Vin Fin
Index