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The Wine Bible | Karen MacNeil

2025/2/7
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Karen MacNeil: 随着葡萄酒行业的巨大变化,即使是像波尔多、勃艮第、托斯卡纳这样的传统产区也在发生变化,现在是时候更新《葡萄酒圣经》了。作为葡萄酒领域的通才,我喜欢了解葡萄酒世界的全貌,而不是像许多记者那样只专注于特定产区。我写作时会想象与一位聪明但不了解葡萄酒的人对话,以对话的方式讲述葡萄酒的故事,并把葡萄酒与文化联系起来,因为历史、食物、艺术、建筑和宗教都丰富了葡萄酒的内涵。我认为搭配葡萄酒更重要的是符合心情,而不是食物。气候变化对葡萄酒行业造成了很大的影响,葡萄树可能在28年内灭绝,许多葡萄酒产区正在采取紧急措施应对气候变化,如种植在更凉爽的地方、更高海拔的地方,或改变葡萄品种。我们可以通过停止购买重瓶装的葡萄酒来帮助应对气候变化,葡萄酒行业最大的碳足迹之一是玻璃瓶,所以我们需要更轻的瓶子或者使用盒中袋包装。增强现实葡萄酒标签是最近发生的非常有趣的技术创新。我认为拿着酒杯的杯肚并不会使酒升温,除非你喝得很慢或者手很热。葡萄酒不应该让人感到害怕。如果你看不见,你就分不清红葡萄酒和白葡萄酒,所以你怎么能只喝红葡萄酒呢?如果你喜欢白葡萄酒的清脆和活力,你也可以在黑皮诺中找到。我建议你打破自己的偏见,花一个月的时间只喝优质的白葡萄酒,看看你的感觉如何。如果你的牙齿容易吸收颜色,你就会有一个紫色的微笑,但这也很可爱。中国正在迅速成为酿造优质葡萄酒的国家。葡萄酒评论的出现促使许多产区意识到他们需要做得更好。《杯酒人生》这部电影让人们开始思考葡萄酒的特别之处,但它对梅洛产生了负面影响,导致梅洛的销量直线下降。赤霞珠有结构,而梅洛则注重葡萄酒中间多汁、美妙、丰富的水果味。葡萄酒不是一种潮流,因为它需要很长时间才能生产出来。我喜欢葡萄酒的缓慢,它与自然的节奏同步,而不是与社会的节奏同步。所有的优质葡萄酒一直都是天然葡萄酒,天然葡萄酒并不是一个新概念,而是一个非常古老的概念。想要喝没有被篡改过的葡萄酒是一个非常光荣和好的想法。所有的伟大生产商,无论他们是否将自己定位为天然葡萄酒,都对葡萄藤的纯度表示尊重。最常被操纵的葡萄酒是廉价葡萄酒,如果你真的很关心葡萄酒的质量,那就喝更贵的葡萄酒。博若莱新酒很有趣,但它不是一款伟大的葡萄酒,它更像是一种营销噱头。如果你买了一瓶博若莱新酒,也买一瓶传统的博若莱,这样你就可以看到真正的博若莱有多好。我最喜欢的葡萄酒是Pierre Peters Blanc de Blanc Champagne,我喝过的最糟糕的葡萄酒是Two Buck Chuck。我可能会说Lancer's或Mattoos,这是多年前的约会之夜葡萄酒。我讨厌别人说一种葡萄酒是平易近人的。当我喝到我喜欢的葡萄酒时,我的嘴巴尖叫,我的心颤动。如果我只有20美元,我会买葡萄牙的红葡萄酒。

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Introduction to Karen MacNeil, a renowned wine expert, and her book, The Wine Bible. Highlights her numerous awards and accomplishments in the wine industry.
  • Karen MacNeil is the only American to win every major wine award in the English language
  • Author of the award-winning book, The Wine Bible
  • Former wine correspondent for the Today Show and host of the PBS series Wine, Food & Friends

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Award-winning wine expert Karen MacNeil discusses her book, “The Wine Bible: 3rd Edition,” which offers the ultimate education in wine with expanded content. Karen MacNeil is the only American to have won every major wine award given in the English language. TIME magazine has called her, “America’s Missionary of the Vine.” She is the author of the award-winning book, The Wine Bible, the only best selling wine book in the United States, and is the creator and editor of Wine Speed, the top digital newsletter on wine in the United States. She was the former wine correspondent for the Today Show on NBC, and was also the host of the PBS series Wine, Food & Friends with Karen MacNeil, for which she won an Emmy. Karen is also the creator and Chairman Emeritus of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America, which has been called the “Harvard of wine education.” Originally published in November 2022. Watch this episode at youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle).