My First Crush--delightful and informative reading

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	• My First Crush: Misadventures in Wine Country Linda Kaplan The Lyons Press, 2005 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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A wine reader's Cuvee.

If you live in the Northwest and have any interest in wine, this is a book for you! It is what I call a "great read"(a "must" read if you will). It captures the flavor of real winemaking with a background of facts (vines, soils, geology, geography, climate and latitude), a sustained taste of optimism with a strong aroma of humor throughout. Real people, real places, real wine--this book is the real deal! Try it, you'll like.

Interested in Wine and the People Who Make It?

Linda Kaplan's book, "My First Crush," is a fun and informative romp through Oregon's wine country. From the colorful town and townspeople of McMinnville to the creepy crawlers on the grape sorting line (and I don't just mean insects), Linda is able to bring winemaking to life.

Inserted throughout the memoir style writing are helpful sidebars which describe winemaking and wine drinking in more detail. From the way that soil and microclimate affect the grapes to holding your own tasting.

I couldn't put this book down and I don't even know that much about wine. I have to say, I know more now.

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My First Crush--delightful and informative reading

This is a book that I will re-read as there was much information that I could use over and over. Definitions, relationships between grape and final product, explainations of wine content and chemical content. Not to mention a GREAT read!

When Linda Kaplan?s husband quit his law firm in Des Moines and bought Panther Creek, a vineyard in Oregon?s Willamette Valley, Kaplan went along for the ride, though she couldn?t tell an earthy wine with a hint of cherries from a glass of grape juice. It didn?t matter: They were going to make pinot noir in a small town, and they would learn how or go crazy trying. Kaplan wryly reveals in her memoir that the result was a bit of both.

There are chapters on the science of wine, on the oddballs who show up for harvest, on telling a good grape from a great grape, and a good wine from a great wine. Kaplan sheds light on the mysteries of marketing wine, the connoisseurs who like to test the newcomers, and the messy business of stomping grapes barefoot. There?s even a recipe for making thirty-six thousand bottles of Panther Creek?s fine pinot noir.

But Kaplan wasn?t only learning about wine. She was also learning about life, about getting along in her new hometown, McMinnville, which seems ripped right from the script of television?s Northern Exposure. Panther Creek has since become an award-winning vineyard, its wine on Wine Spectator magazine?s list of the Top 100 Wines of the World.

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