Money, taste, and wine : it's complicated! / Mike Veseth.

"'It's complicated!' That's a simple way to describe the sort of relationship that seemingly defies simple explanations. Like a love triangle, money, taste, and wine are caught in a complicated relationship affecting every aspect of the wine industry and wine enthusiast expe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Veseth, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Buyer beware! The wine buyer's biggest mistake
  • Anatomy of a complicated relationship
  • Wine drinker, know thyself
  • Part II. Get a clue! searching for buried treasures. Dump bucket wines
  • Treasure island wines
  • Sometimes the best wine is a beer (or a cider!)
  • Bulk up: big-bag, big-box wines
  • Part III. A rosé is a rosé? money, taste, and identity. More than just a label: wine's identity crisis?
  • Wine snobs, cheese bores, and the paradox of globalization
  • Anything but champagne
  • Part IV. What money can (and can't) buy. Restaurant wars
  • Follow the money
  • Invisible cities, imaginary wines
  • Groot expectations.