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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Becoming a top sommelier is a wild, downright obsessive pursuit.
Chapter 2: Sommeliers take smell and taste with profound seriousness.
Chapter 3: Most of us still don’t really understand how we experience a food or a drink’s flavor.
Chapter 4: There are straightforward ways to smartly spot a wine’s traits, and clear, simple terms to describe them all.
Chapter 5: For professional sommeliers, service matters just as much as wine knowledge.
Chapter 6: A good wine is one that you’ll want to keep drinking.
Chapter 7: Tasting notes are more apt to confuse you than to help.
Chapter 8: Eventually, Bosker passed her sommelier exam, proving wine can be learned and mastered through dedication.
Description
Cork Dork (2019) explores the world of wine through the eyes of one aspiring wine-expert. Bianca Bosker quit her job in journalism and set herself an ambitious goal: to become an expert sommelier. Despite having little prior knowledge of wine, she achieved this in just eighteen months. Along the way, she learned everything there is to know about wine – making it, serving it, tasting it, and talking about it.
Who Should Listen
- Drinkers curious about wine
- Aspiring sommeliers
- Diners unsure of what to drink