Sediment - Two Gentlemen and Their Mid-Life Terroirs

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For people who wouldn’t know a Romanée-Conti from a bad-boy Argentine malbec, or a magnum of Château d’Yquem from a can of orange Tango, help is at hand. Based on the authors’ highly esteemed blog of the same name , Sediment takes a wry look at the social, financial, personal and marital issues surrounding middle-aged, middle-class wine drinking.Covering such vital topics as befriending a wine merchant, high-street wine from supermarkets and corner shops, tools of the trade like the pichet and tumblers, dining-table wine etiquette, wine in a box, the cubi flagon, wine drinking in the Georgian era, and even homage to le Piat d’Or, Sediment is not a book that takes wine too seriously. Instead, it wrestles it out of the bottle, pins it down and makes it tell the truth – in language we can all understand.By writing humorously, and much more broadly than specialist wine writers, CJ and PK break out of the wine-writing niche, with its exclusive vocabulary and faint air of superiority. For those of us who so often fail to detect notes of citrus and caramel, but mainly get a hint of alcohol with a grapey finish, the book is as refreshing as a glass of decent Muscadet on a summer’s day; it is also the perfect gift for the wine drinker to whom you don’t want to give wine.‘The wine is a declaration, to any guest who can read a label, of your worldliness, knowledge, style and generosity’ – PK‘The wine must be there, and it mustn’t be so foul that it makes your armpits prickle’ – CJAmong the treasures of vinous wit and oenological wisdom to be found in this book are:Drinking wine at No. 10 Downing StreetThe SPAR Autumn Wine EventQuaffing and gluggingEnjoying wine James Bond-styleDrinking wine from a mugPosh wine merchantsWine drinking with Mary QuantClaret or Bordeaux?and much more besides.Sediment was Best New Wine Blog Finalist in the 2011 Wine Blog Awards, and in 2012 was Runner-Up in the Best Editorial Wine Writing category of the Born Digital Wine Awards. The authors have appeared as ‘Sediment’ on the Radio 4 Food and Drink programme, while their own e-book, Wining and Dining: The Sediment guide to wine and the dinner party, was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Best Drink Books of the Year 2013.