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Cork dork : a wine-fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste / Bianca Bosker.

by Bosker, Bianca

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Thorndike Press, c2017.

LP 641.22 B743c

Bosker, Bianca -- Friends and associates.

Wine and wine making -- Social aspects.

Journalists -- United States.

9781432844257 (hc)

1432844253 (hc)

Large print edition.

587 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Like many of us, tech reporter Bianca Bosker saw wine as a way to unwind at the end of a long day, or a nice thing to have with dinner and that was about it. Until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world in which people could, after a single sip of wine, identify the grape it was made from, in what year, and where it was produced down to the exact location, within acres. Where she tasted wine, these people detected not only complex flavor profiles, but entire histories and geographies. Astounded by their fanatical dedication and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, Bosker abandoned her screen-centric life and set out to discover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a cork dork.

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