Drinking with the Valkyries by Andrew Jefford

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Drinking with the Valkyries by Andrew Jefford
Producer Academie du Vin Library
Product Code BOOK-13

In the words of winemaker Randall Grahm, Andrew Jefford is “the most thoughtful person we have writing about wine”, so for many wine lovers, a new Jefford is the equivalent of the release of a new iPhone to Apple fanatics.

In this beautiful and varied volume of essays, opinions and articles spanning 2007 to 2022, the author shares his fascinating observations gathered over decades of discovery. Jefford listened to and admires wine, wherever it comes from; old-school pretensions are turned on their heads, style points are disdained, stellar prices are dismissed and questions are asked...

The book includes an edited copy of Andrew’s transcendental lecture to the Wine Communicators of Australia in May 2012: Wine and Astonishment. The aim of this, Jefford writes, “is to make wine strange for us again, and in so doing to freshen or re-make our mental relationship with it”. There is no other book on wine like it, except perhaps, one of the author’s previous works.


Drinking with the Valkyries by Andrew Jefford

Reviews

Best Wine Books 2022 “For years Andrew Jefford has been one of the English language’s most thoughtful writers and stylists on wine… original and provocative, though not at all a provocateur… Mr. Jefford is a poet, and he’s far more interested in the poetry of wine — the transporting thoughts and dreamlike reveries it induces — than in the technical details… A pleasure to read.” Eric Asimov
The New York Times
Best Wine Books 2022 "Jefford’s essays are like that glass of wine at day’s end – restorative, uplifting and enlightening." Dave McIntyre
Washington Post
Best Wine Books 2022
Decanter
“A tumble of short stories, it reveals the kaleidoscope landscape of a staggeringly beautiful, complex mind, reflecting a staggeringly beautiful, complex world.”
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com

Reviews

Best Wine Books 2022 “For years Andrew Jefford has been one of the English language’s most thoughtful writers and stylists on wine… original and provocative, though not at all a provocateur… Mr. Jefford is a poet, and he’s far more interested in the poetry of wine — the transporting thoughts and dreamlike reveries it induces — than in the technical details… A pleasure to read.” Eric Asimov
The New York Times
Best Wine Books 2022 "Jefford’s essays are like that glass of wine at day’s end – restorative, uplifting and enlightening." Dave McIntyre
Washington Post
Best Wine Books 2022
Decanter
“A tumble of short stories, it reveals the kaleidoscope landscape of a staggeringly beautiful, complex mind, reflecting a staggeringly beautiful, complex world.”
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com

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