A Guide to Wine
Written by Julian Curry
Narrated by Julian Curry
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Actor and wine expert Julian Curry has devised a unique audiobook guide to wine which takes the listener to the heart of winemaking and wine drinking in a clear but light-hearted manner. However rich and complex the subject of wine may be, he insists it is also hugely rewarding and great fun.
Curry's informative and entertaining program begins with a description of work in the vineyard and cellar. It outlines the many choices faced by grape-grower and winemaker, resulting in the variety of different styles of wine produced. It continues with wine's journey from winery to gullet, with advice on cellaring, buying, serving food-matching and tasting. And it concludes with a lengthy section devoted to all the major wine regions, in the Old World and the New.
Editor's Note
Prepare your palate...
Distinguished English actor and wine connoisseur Julian Curry delves into the world of wine—from creation to consumption, including regional history—with levity, wit, and wisdom.
Julian Curry
Julian Curry is a writer and actor who has appeared in many of Shakespeare's plays. His extensive stage credits include leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and in London's West End. He has acted in twenty-one of Shakespeare's plays. He is also well known as Claude Erskine-Brown in the popular television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Numerous other TV credits include Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes, The Misanthrope, King Lear, Kavanagh QC, The Wyvern Mystery, A Fine Romance and Midsomer Murders. Among many movies are The Missionary, Fall from Grace, Rasputin, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Escape to Victory (starring Pelé). His one-man entertainment Hic! or The Entire History of Wine (abridged) has been performed over a hundred and fifty times, from Hong Kong to Bermuda to San Francisco, and sold out as a cartoon-illustrated book. He has also written and recorded A Guide to Wine for Naxos Audiobook. He is the author of Shakespeare On Stage, shortlisted for the 2010 Theatre Book Prize, and Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2, both published by Nick Hern Books.
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Reviews for A Guide to Wine
32 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome, thorough, informative, enjoyable read/listen. I actually read it twice
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nice reminder of the basics. Author’s plummy British accent does get on one’s nerves after a while.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5easy to understand, good of for beginners ... ... ..