Spring 2012 - University of California Press

General Interest
Gerald Asher
A Carafe of Red
Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays
from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and
endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts
with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and
America that offer just as much for those who simply enjoy vivid
evocations of people and places. Asher puts wine in its context by
taking the reader on a series of discursive journeys that start with
the carafe at his elbow. In his introduction, Asher says, “Wine . . .
draws on everything and leads everywhere.” Whether the subject is
a supposedly simple red wine shared in a Parisian café or a Napa
Valley Cabernet tasted with its vintner, every essay in A Carafe of
Red is as pleasurable as the wines themselves.
Praise for Gerald Asher’s A Vineyard in My Glass:
“Gerald Asher’s name snaps wine types to attention for good reason.
. . . shimmering, detailed prose [that] can often relay a wine’s
cultural tale in a single sentence.” Jon Bonné, San Francisco Chronicle
“There is a timelessness to his writing . . . a literary pleasure.”
Lettie Teague, Wall Street Journal
Also available:
A Vineyard in My Glass
World
cloth 978-0-520-27033-6 $29.95/£19.95
Gerald Asher is the author of A Vineyard in My
Glass (UC Press), The Pleasures of Wine, Vineyard
Tales, Wine Journal, and On Wine. As an international
wine merchant, he was decorated by
the French Government in 1974 for his contribution
to French viticulture, in 2001 was named
Outstanding Wine Professional of the Year by
the James Beard Foundation, and in 2009 was
inducted into the Culinary Institute of America’s
Vintners Hall of Fame.
FEBRUARY
285 pages, 6 x 9”, 3 maps
Wine/Viticulture/Food & Culture
World
paper 978-0-520-27032-9 $21.95/£14.95
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