A Vineyard in My Glass, by Gerald Asher
and
A Carafe of Red, by Gerald Asher
Gerald Asher is a redoubtable British "wine personality" who has the enviable career of traveling to exotic countries, drinking the best they have to offer, and then writing about it.
A Vineyard in My Glass is the dashing memoir of Asher's vineyard apprenticeship in Europe when he was a young man, plus lots of local history about all the places he visited.
Warning: You will be extremely jealous.
In A Carafe of Red, Asher takes the reader on a spectacular history-road-trip of wine in France, Spain, Italy, California— going back ages. This is not a "where-this-wine-comes-from-blah-blah" kind of book— no, there are all sorts of dirty politics and criminal activities.
Carafe and Vineyard complement each other and I hope the author was enjoying a glass while he wrote them.
Narrated by the the star of "Little Man Tate," P.J. Olchan.
—Aretha Bright
