One Thousand Vines is a rare feat: an original book about wine. Pascaline Lepeltier’s work of passionate scholarship sweeps us through the disciplines which form wine’s hinterland in order to illuminate her informing vision of wine: fresh, exciting, dense, grand.” Andrew Jefford In One Thousand Vines internationally celebrated sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier answers all the important questions about wine. With three main parts – Reading Vines, Reading Landscapes and Reading Wines – the book challenges preconceived ideas about the vine and its wine. It explains where we are now, how we got here, and shows us a way forward – in how grapes will be grown, made into wine, sold and enjoyed. One Thousand Vines isn’t an encyclopedia or atlas but it answers all the important questions about wine and offers the reader keys to understand the links between the bottle and the producers, terroirs and vineyards which give birth to it. With a refreshingly unique approach, star sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier offers those curious about wine not only the answers but also the tools to understand it by oneself.
