When Adventures at the Wine path was first released, Victor Hazan acknowledged, "In Kermit Lynch's small, actual, pleasant e-book there's extra figuring out approximately what wine particularly is than in every little thing else i've got read." 1 / 4 century later, this striking trip of wine, commute, and style continues to be a necessary quantity for wine fanatics. In 2007, Eric Asimov, in The New York Times, known as it "one of the best American books on wine," and in 2012, The Wall highway magazine pro-claimed that it "may be the easiest booklet at the wine business."

In occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, Adventures at the Wine direction has been completely redesigned and up-to-date with an epilogue and a listing of the nice wine connoisseur's twenty-five such a lot memorable bottles. during this singular travel alongside the French wine course, Lynch ventures forth to discover the very essence of the wine global. In doing so, he by no means shies clear of the attitudes, critiques, and ideology that experience made him one among our most valuable and outspoken professionals on wine. but his guiding philosophy is exquisitely uncomplicated. As he writes within the creation, "Wine is, notably, approximately excitement. those that make it ponderous make it boring . . . if you happen to maintain an open brain and take every one wine by itself phrases, there's a international of magic to discover." Adventures at the Wine path is the final word quest for this magic through France's so much exotic vineyards and wine cellars. Lynch attracts bright pix of vintners—from drunk négociants to a guy who oversees a winery that has been in his relations for 5 hundred years—and memorably inspires the nation-state at each flip. "The French," Lynch writes, "with their aristocratic history, their adventure and culture, procedure wine from one other viewpoint . . . and one can't have fun with French wine with any intensity of figuring out with out realizing how the French themselves examine their wines, through going to the resource, descending into their chilly, humid cellars, tasting with them, and hearing the language they hire to explain their wines."

Here, Kermit Lynch assures a complete new iteration of readers—as good as his unswerving fans—that discussions approximately wine don't need to concentration so stringently on "the pH, the oak, the physique, the finish," yet relatively at the "gaiety" of how "the tart fruit perfume[s] the palate and the brain."