Precis of The vinous canon
The Canon — that compendium of the highest of high culture. It’s celebrated as the repository of accomplishment and heritage from ancient days to modern times. And it’s castigated for marginalizing those works which (for whatever reasons) don’t quite “fit”.
The wine world has its
canon, too — the traditions and inherited wisdom of the Old
World that still inform and define much winemaking today. Even as varieties and styles become more
promiscuous than ever before, enduring standards still continue to set
benchmarks of quality and acceptability.
Can tradition and innovation be reconciled, new and old wine
characteristics co-exist? And (most
importantly) — what’s going to give the best drinking?
UPCOMING Later 2008
