Thread: Wine Reading

On Nov 14, 1:03*pm, Casey Miller <kcmil...@enteract.com> wrote:
> For my birthday, my wife gave me two books about wine: *"Palmento", by
> Robert Camuto, and "Reading Between the Wines" by Terry Theise. *
>
> *My wife's family emigrated from Sicily before the war and we try to
> visit as often as time and money allow, though never often enough. *I
> also studied at the University of Vienna in the late '70s and spent
> many happy days wandering the Vienna Woods and the Weinviertal (I even
> remember drinking RED wine in Rust). *If I only knew then what I know
> now. *
>
> The two books are similar in the sense that they address an emotional
> attachment to wine. *They certainly made me want to jump on a plane
> immediately to scratch my own itch. * I prefer "Palmento" -- maybe
> it's as simple a matter of the *boy from the north dreaming of sunny
> climates and earthy Sicilian women. *But I also found Camuto a much
> more felicitous and personal writer. *"Reading Between the Wines" can
> drift off into a kind of geeky mysticism that is off-putting to me.
> But I would highly recommend either book, perhaps as a stocking
> stuffer.

Thanks, haven't heard of Palmento before.
I like Terry T's writing (at least in catalogs and on wine boards),
but not sure I'd like a whole book's worth at one sitting.