BR: Drinking & Knowing Things by Michael Amon
#1 Post by TomHill » Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:25 pm
A friend recently bought this book & rather liked it (as best I can tell) & loaned it to me. I browsed the Table of Contents and was immediately interested. Any book that has a chaptre on Timorasso & Arneis & Aglianico is gonna be my kind of book.
So I've spent the last few days hopping about from one chaptre to another on wine subjects that interest me. I've become totally bored by the book.
It is a quirky little paperbook written by a guy who puts out a weekly blog ( DAKT ). It is written in a distinctly different style than most wine books. It is highly vulgar, which doesn't bother mean in the least. But, eventually, it becomes very tiring/repetitious and comes across as a highly affected style of writing. I must admit I had to go to the Urban Dictionary to decipher the AF abbreviation that he repeatedly uses.
So, initially I kind of was taken by the book for its writing style as being so different from other wine books. To me, wine books are something I read to learn something new from. After spending some 3 hrs in this book, it dawned on me that I really hadn't learned a single/anything new from reading this tome. Though I pretty much agree with the opinions that the author offers up (on wine producers, wine regions, scores, etc), I just realized I wasn't learning anything and the book was a colossal waste of my time.
The author does take credit for launching the wine industry in Bhutan, for which he deserves some credit.
So, if you know nothing of Timorasso & Arneis and want to learn a little (as little AF), then I would recommend this book. But if you're already reasonably cognizant on the subject of wine, the book is an entire waste. Go read JamieGoode or ClarkSmith and actually learn something worthwhile.
Tom