VINTAGE CORK
A Lighthearted Look at the World of Wine
Wine has been on people's tongues as long as human culture has had taste buds and language. Poets from Homer to Omar Khayam, from Shakespeare to Cole Porter have sung its praises, their glasses held high.
 Many people know a bit about wine. A few people know quite a bit about wine. Most people who know about wine enjoy it, and it seems that the more you know about wine the more you enjoy it-up to a point. Some people seem to know so much about wine that they've become "experts," people who take wine, and themselves, very seriously. They're called wine snobs, and for them the enjoyment of wine is secondary to the enjoyment of knowing more than whomever they're talking to.
Cork Millner is not a wine snob, even if he knows more about wine than most people-including most wine snobs. What Cork knows most about wine is that it's fun, and like the rest of life, there's a lot of humor involved. Cork is well respected as a wine expert, having written five books and innumerable columns and articles on the subject. But he is also well known as a humorist, an entertainer whether he's dining in private or speaking in public.
Vintage Cork, Millner's new book about wine, pokes fun at wine snobs while it celebrates wine wholeheartedly. Peppered with puns and crackling with wit, the book also pours a great glass of information about drinking-and cooking with-wine.
Readers of Vintage Cork may be so busy laughing they won't notice, but they'll also be learning things they never knew before about the history and geography, the chemistry and technology, the language and the lore of what Louis Pasteur called "the most healthful and hygienic of all beverages." Mainly they'll be reminded of what they already knew: that wine is something to be merry about. And so is Vintage Cork.
As an added bonus, the book has a 44-page section made up of recipes containing wine, provided by some of California's finest winemakers
About the Author: Cork Millner has published articles and interviews in Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Los Angeles Times, Seventeen, Travel-Holiday, and elsewhere. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Art of Interviewing and Write From the Start. Hollywood Be Thy Name-The Warner Brothers Story was released in 1993. Portraits, a collection of celebrity interviews illustrated by Barnaby Conrad, was published by Fithian Press in 1994. |
