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Sales Rank: 477384
Category: Book
Author: Malcolm Kushner
Publisher: Malcolm Kushner & Assoc
Studio: Malcolm Kushner & Assoc
Brand: HomeAndWine.com
Label: Malcolm Kushner & Assoc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0970459890
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780970459893
ASIN: 0970459890
Publication Date: January 15, 2003
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| Features:
| • | A great book that both enlightens and entertains with jokes | | • | A delight for any wine aficionado | | • | 168 pages |
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Product Description
The world's first complete book of wine humor. Hundreds of funny quotes, definitions, anecdotes and news items about mankind's favorite beverage. Plus wine cartoons from The New Yorker. The perfect gift for anyone interested in wine. And that's no joke!
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 Witty book on how to enjoy wine minus the pretentions March 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Malcolm's sense of humor comes through in this book. While most of us might enjoy a good Riesling or Gewuerztraminer we are often loath to be associated with the wine-snobs whose terms like "good bouquet" or "naughty wine" make us squirm and we revert to the comforting world of dark beers, ales and Tim "the toolman" Taylor. Malcolm's book shows you that you can enjoy a good wine, have a laugh and have no fear of being marked as pretentious.
Great gift idea for the wine lover you know! January 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is brilliantly smart and witty. Besides the written humor, it includes hilarious cartoons about wine from the New Yorker. I would recommend this book to anyone from the average wine drinker to the most knowledgeable of wine connoisseurs.
 Terrible! January 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a collection of terrible one-liners and one page anecdotes that are not funny. It looks to be self-published. Stay away...
The Perfect Host or Hostess Gift September 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A friend gave us a copy as a hostess gift when he visited and we love the book.
Full-bodied and flavorful with a real bite October 25, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Bubbling over like champagne, as wicked as Brie and chocolate-covered strawberries, Malcolm Kushner's marvelous humor book on wine demands to be sniffed, sipped, and imbibed with pleasure. Drinking in this book on wine will make you feel tipsy without the consequences. As Kushner says in the section Everything I Know I Learned from Drinking Wine: A loaded person is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That said, a glass or two of young Beaujolias or White Zin goes perfectly with this book.
Kushner swirls his own witticisms, his musings on what would happen if famous authors wrote about wine (especially funny are Joan Rivers on Chablis and Dr. Seuss on Champagne: "I do not like it / Cham I am / I do not like / That pagne of cham"), trivia, trivia quizzes and humorous quizzes, and his real-life clips of studies on the mental benefits of drinking wine with quips and quotes from the drunk and the famous.
There's plenty of silliness in a glass of wine, and Kushner saves most of his wickedness for the pretentious tasters, the wine connoisseurs and the sommeliers (that's wine servers for the uninitiated).
New Yorker cartoons, like the heady aroma of a newly opened bottle of Napa Valley wine, add a delicious flavor to this humorous collection.
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