From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Though this collection of essays, gleaned from Lynch?s wine sales brochures from 1974 to 2003, seems at first glance to be little more than wine propaganda, the industry expert?s humorously written descriptions will educate as much as they entertain. Originally written to bolster sales at Lynch?s now legendary wine import shop in Berkeley, Calif., the essays reproduced here serve as an easy-to-imbibe master class for aficionados of French wines. And few writers?even Gourmet?s venerable wine scribe Gerald Asher?can do as princely a job enlisting mere words to describe wine with such precision. Lynch is just as comfortable articulating the “resiny rosemary-like fragrance” of an Auguste (more…)