Its also a deeply felt story of her own experience, told with great heart and wit. But bianca boskers book stands out as being spectacularly. For a wine book, cork dork is remarkably entertaining. I have read many wine books, some casual, some pedantic, and many happily informative. A wine fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, which has been hailed as the kitchen confidential of. For bianca bosker, the wine epiphany that would change her life happened while sitting in front of a computer screen. Cork dork by bianca bosker wines september 27, 2017 2. Madeline puckette, bestselling coauthor of wine folly in this smart and sharply observed book, bianca bosker takes us on a marvelous journey through the mad, manic, seductive subculture of wine and wine lovers.
There has never been a better time to drink wine than right now. Prior to researching this book, you had a fulltime job as a tech journalist. Bianca bosker speaking bio and videos the lavin agency. A wine fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, published march 28. When the sommelier and blogger madeline puckette writes that this book is the kitchen confidential of the wine world, shes not wrong, though bill bufords heat is probably a shade closer. Bianca bosker is the former executive tech editor of the huffington post.
Mar 17, 2017 ignore the snobs, drink the cheap, delicious wine. Madeline puckette writes that this book is the kitchen confidential of the wine. The former executive tech editor of the huffington post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book original copies. She reveals how she got hooked, what jumping in at the deep end taught her about the industry, and why her new book cork dork deviates from the wine worlds typical script. A winefuelled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters and. Review of the book cork dork by bianca bosker texas wine lover. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, which has been hailed as the kitchen confidential of. A wine fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste is a memoir written by bianca bosker. Bianca bosker traded her career as the huffington posts executive tech editor for a job as cellar rat, embarking on an unprecedented journey through the wine world to probe, firsthand, the importance of our forgotten senses. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, published march 28.
There is more readily accessible knowledge out there than ever before in the form of books, apps, websites, seminarsyou name it. Everywhere she goeswhether its into a busy kitchen or a vineyard, or into her own headbianca bosker takes us with her. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste is a memoir written by. Jul 21, 2019 bianca bosker and her book, cork dork, serve as this wonderful bridge between people inside and outside the wine community. The kitchen confidential of wine madeline puckette, wine folly speaking as someone who barely knows a good bordeaux from a bottle of boones farm, i was charmed and entertained by this book. A winefueled journey into the art of sommeliers and the science of taste you dont need. Counterintuitive, compulsively readable, and hilarious, cork dork illuminates how tasting better can help us live better and will change the way you drink wine forever. May 29, 2017 cork dork is a brilliant feat of screwball participatory journalism and bianca bosker is a gonzo nerd prodigy. Everywhere i go, i run into people who rave about it. Inspired by sommeliers who hone their senses the way olympians train their bodies, she plunged inside neuroscientists labs, underground blind tasting. Bianca bosker cork dork author road to wine expert podcast. But bianca boskers book stands out as being spectacularly successful in teaching us about wine, in making us love wine, and in presenting a tone of unfailing good humor.
Come sip some wine with us here at the book cellar with author bianca bosker as she discusses her book cork dork about bianca bosker bianca bosker is an awardwinning journalist and the author of cork dork. She narrates her text with joy, and her pursuit of the special knowledge and wisdom possessed by sommeliers comes. Join bianca bosker on her journey to become a wine sommelier in the cork dork audiobook. Read this book, and youll never be intimidated by wineor wine snobsagain. If i tell a stranger that i work in the wine industry, one of their first. Review of the book cork dork by bianca bosker texas wine. Nov 07, 2019 intrigued that wine could inspire such a detailed conversation, bosker decided to enroll in the introductory class at the court of master sommeliers and write a book about her experience. Youll never feel lost in front of a wine list again. What better name for her most recent book, then, a new york times bestseller that chronicles her journey from amateur wine drinker to professional sommelier, and which fellow cork dork madeline puckette called the kitchen confidential of wine. Like many of us, tech reporter bianca bosker saw wine as a way to unwind at the end of. Cork dork 2019 explores the world of wine through the eyes of one aspiring wineexpert. I didnt need to read much of this book to see that comparing bosker to.
Her work has appeared in the atlantic, t magazine, the wall street journal, the new republic and new yorkers website. A wine fueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, bianca bosker takes readers along on her journey from a journalist with a passive interest in wine all the way through taking the certified sommelier exam from the court of master sommeliers in a life. Bianca bosker has 256 posts on their instagram profile. Bianca boskers cork dork is a highoctane account of her year in the new york wine scene, from slaving as a cellar rat to training as a sommelier and partying in. Perhaps the most purely pleasurable book about wine ever written, this account of bianca boskers journey from clueless wine boor to certifiable wine bore is everything wine writing so seldom is. Follow their account to see all their photos and videos. Bianca bosker, the author of the bestselling wine book cork dork, tackles top trends on wine drinkers minds. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste is a compendium of bewitching. Her passion for wine expertise makes this fun and factfilled audiobook an extraordinary listening experience. Part of your motivation in delving into the world of wine was to get out from behind the computer screens and actually engage with the physical world.
Jun 12, 2017 author bianca bosker is a former tech journalist who has cast off her workaday life covering silicon valley to plunge herself, almost literally, into the world of wine. Her nonfiction book on sommelier training, cork dork, was a new york times bestseller. As the subject of her book, she does not take her self too seriously, and is happy to recount one disaster aft another or. Bianca bosker cork dork wine sommelier sexism essay.
Author bianca bosker is a former tech journalist who has cast off her workaday life covering silicon valley to plunge herself, almost literally, into the world of wine. Inspired by sommeliers who hone their senses the way olympians train their bodies, she plunged inside. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists. Nov 30, 2017 bianca bosker was and still is a successful journalist, covering the tech scene, before turning her attention to writing a book about wine and brings an eye for detail and a natural curiosity to stories of her adventures. Bianca boskers cork dork is a deep journalistic dive into the exclusive world of sommeliers, or cork dorks, as they call themselves. Along the way, she learned everything there is to know about wine making it, serving it, tasting it, and. Bianca bosker is an awardwinning journalist who has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for the new yorker online, the atlantic, t. In a little more than a year she mastered an arcane field of knowledge and shes written a hilarious, thoughtful and erudite book that may be the ultimate answer to the perennial question of whether or not wine connoisseurship is a. Cynthia graber and nicola twilley of gastropod, via the atlantic a mustread wine book. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters. Apr 19, 2017 cork dork, by bianca bosker, is a memoir about taste the physical faculty, not the sense of decorum. One of the new york times critics top books of 2017. What better name for her most recent book, then, a new york times bestseller that chronicles her journey from amateur wine drinker to professional.
Bianca bosker will read from cork dork and answer questions about the book on thursday, march 30 at changing hands books, phoenix, 300 west camelback road. Amateur drinker and professional tech reporter bianca bosker didnt know much about wineuntil she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world of master sommeliers who. Bianca boskers cork dork is a deep journalistic dive into the exclusive world of sommeliers. Amateur drinker and professional tech reporter bianca bosker didnt know much about wine until she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a world of master sommeliers who could, after a single sip. Intrigued that wine could inspire such a detailed conversation, bosker decided to enroll in the introductory class at the court of master.
Bianca bosker is the author of cork dork, a book about wine, obsession and the science of taste forthcoming from penguin books in 2017. Through her bestselling book cork dork, journalist bianca bosker studied the world of wine, turning herself from an amateur drinker into a certified sommelier. You have enjoyed a hugely successful career as a journalist, editor and author, largely covering. Bianca bosker isnt just another wineguzzling writershes what industry types call a cork dork.
Bianca boskers cork dork is a highoctane account of her year in the new york wine scene, from slaving as a cellar rat to training as a sommelier and partying in the citys inner sanctums etn chatroom for readers join us cork dork is pitched as a. This hilarious, thoughtful and erudite book may be the ultimate answer to the perennial question of whether or not wine connoisseurship is a scam. The former executive tech editor of the huffington post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book original. Bianca bosker is an american journalist and bestselling author. Amateur drinker and professional tech reporter bianca bosker didnt know much about wineuntil she stumbled on an alternate universe where taste reigned supreme, a. Bianca bosker and her book, cork dork, serve as this wonderful bridge between people inside and outside the wine community. Bianca bosker quit her job in journalism and set herself an ambitious goal. Its also a deeply felt story of her own experience, told with. Jennifer senior, the new york times professional journalist and amateur drinker bianca bosker didnt know much about wineuntil she discovered. Bianca bosker is a brilliant and funny writer and her journey to loving and knowing wine is highly relatable for a wide audience. Mar 12, 2020 cork dork is a brilliant feat of screwball participatory journalism and bianca bosker is a gonzo nerd prodigy. A winefueled adventure among the obsessive sommeliers, big bottle hunters, and rogue scientists who taught me to live for taste, bianca bosker takes readers along on her journey from a journalist with a passive interest in wine all the. Intrigued that wine could inspire such a detailed conversation, bosker decided to enroll in the introductory class at the court of master sommeliers and write a book about her experience. All things considered, when creator bianca bosker surrendered her activity as a columnist and set out to turn into an affirmed sommelier and master wine server she began to find the appropriate responses.
Bianca bosker is an awardwinning journalist and the author of cork dork. Cork dork is a brilliant feat of screwball participatory journalism and bianca bosker is a gonzo nerd prodigy. May 17, 2017 join bianca bosker on her journey to become a wine sommelier in the cork dork audiobook. Were delighted to talk with bianca bosker about her widely discussed and bestselling book, cork dork. Despite having little prior knowledge of wine, she achieved this in just eighteen months. The mercury news in this smart and sharply observed book, bianca bosker takes us on a marvelous journey through the mad, manic, seductive subculture of wine and wine lovers.
Cork dork sniffs, swills and spits through the world of. Finalist for the 2018 gourmand award for wine writing finalist for the 2018. Cork dork, by bianca bosker, is a memoir about taste the physical faculty, not the sense of decorum. Talkin wine trends with cork dork author bianca bosker. Readers will certainly come away from the book knowing more about wine and likely eager to explore it further, but even those less inclined to imbibe will be intrigued by boskers insights into the nature of smell and taste and the ways training and attention can. Apr 18, 2018 bianca bosker, the author of the bestselling wine book cork dork, tackles top trends on wine drinkers minds. It was recently published on 32817 by penguin books, an imprint of penguin random house, paperback, 352 pages. If i tell a stranger that i work in the wine industry, one of their first questions is, have you read cork dork. She narrates her text with joy, and her pursuit of the special knowledge and wisdom possessed by sommeliers comes through in every syllable of her journey from oenology novice to working cork dork.
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