About Pressing Matters

People have been drinking wine for thousands of years. So by now we must have worked out the best way to grow, make, and appreciate it – right?

In fact, if anything, our accumulated centuries of experience have only complicated the picture. Perhaps you believe in the primacy of terroir, think that organic farming is the only right way to grow grapes, or know that you can easily tell the difference between a store-bought wine and one sold via the membership list of a cult winery. But perhaps the picture is not so clear cut.

In Pressing Matters, Alan Ramey explores wine from eight angles in an effort to clarify the arguments on all sides. Experts in the subjects of terroir, farming, wine production, tasting, wine’s cultural significance, and the economic value of wine offer their insights on these key debates.

By focusing on wine through the prism of the main points of difference within each topic, the book presents readers with a story that includes the messiness, human fragility, and disagreement about core principles that so often gets skipped in discussions about wine.

Pressing Matters can’t promise to leave you with a set of neat answers on these topics but whether you are new to wine or fancy yourself something of an expert it offers a fresh way of thinking about this complex and fascinating subject.

• Weight 0.9 kg
• Dimensions 135 x 216 mm