Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France (2013) by Kermit Lynch. I read a bit here and there. Lynch is a charming writer to whom I'm now grateful for the Billat-Savarin description of the two features which distinguish man from beast: 1) Fear of the future and 2) Desire for fermented liquors
Notes on a Cellar-Book ((2008) by George Saintsbury and Thomas Pinney According to the notation, Saintsbury was a gifted and prolific writer. I stumbled around online and found this quote from his critical introduction to Gibbons: ""There were some things—not many—which he did not and could not know; but almost everything that there was for him to know he knew." That seems to be the type of praise every critic would want.
A random mental walk.
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