Book Club
/We love book club. In fact, for us it is mostly a wine drinking social club where we not only talk about the book, but we also use the time to catch up with our friends. When it's our turn to select the book, we pick from one of the myriad of books about wine that are on the shelves today. In the Book Club feature, we will share some of our favorite wine based books that we have read here at Qorkz, and we hope you enjoy them as well.
The New California Wine
A comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California's "new generation," and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in recent years.
The New California Wine is the untold story of the California wine industry: the young, innovative producers who are rewriting the rules of contemporary winemaking; their quest to express the uniqueness of California terroir; and the continuing battle to move the state away from the overly-technocratic, reactionary practices of its recent past. Jon Bonné writes from the front lines of the California wine revolution, where he has access to the stories, philosophies, and techniques of top producers.
In this groundbreaking debut, Bonné paints an unflinching portrait of the current state of the industry: its strengths and shortcomings, its essential wines and those not worth pursuing. Lush full-color photographs, as well as a region-by-region tour of some of California’s lesser-known growing areas, reveal the people and places behind the bottles. Finally, a comprehensive purchasing reference lists all the must-know producers and their best wines, making The New California Wine an essential resource for finding and buying the very best the state has to offer.
Wine Pairings For This Book
Not available for purchase in stores. Gold Medal Winner - SF Chronicle. Limited quantities left. Exclusively available for residents of California and Nevada.
When reading a book about unique AVAs it is best to drink a wine from a unique AVA! Try this 2012 Cource Syrah from the Antelope Valley of the California High Desert AVA to experience what extremely hot days and cold evenings can do for a wine.
Winemaker Tasting Notes
This wine is comprised of 93% Syrah and 4% Petite Sirah and 3% Viognier. The fruit was hand harvested and table sorted and then cold soaked on the skins for 48 hours and then co-fermented for 16 days and pressed off the skins and racked off the solids into 3 and 4 year old French oak barrels and aged for 18 months. Left on the lees and stirred monthly.
This wine has flavors and aromas of dark cherries, plum, lavender, blueberries followed by a toasty bacon finish. Medium tannins