Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology
Search in google:
"Raise your glass to Randall Grahm. Long may he tickle our fancy."—Kermit Lynch, author of Adventures on the Wine Route"Long a fan of Bonny Doon, it cheered me to find Randall Grahm's writing just as irreverent and delicious as his approach to wine."—Kathleen Flinn, author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry"Randall Grahm is the Willy Wonka of the wine world, and Been Doon So Long is intelligent, insightful, and mischievous. It's a work of genius."—Jamie Goode, author of The Science of Wine"If Donald Barthelme had studied philosophy and oenology he might have written like Randall Grahm. He's a provocateur, a punster, a philosopher, and jester. As entertaining as Grahm is, he also manages to edify, ultimately surprising us with contrarian common sense and a flamboyant defense of tradition."—Jay McInerney, author of Bacchus and Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar The New York Times - Eric Asimov Randall Grahm…has warmth and a sense of humor. They are all on full display in Been Doon So Long…Regardless of genre, Mr. Grahm's thoughts are brilliantly observed and beautifully rendered…Mr. Grahm is also relentlessly self-promotional, which puts him in the good company of writer-merchants like Kermit Lynch. In both cases, the joy and the vision they offer makes the salesmanship more than tolerable.
Foreword by Hugh Johnson Acknowledgments Introduction [I] How to Tell a Book by Its Cover The Etiquette (and History) of the Bonny Doon Etiquette [II] Ficciones (Viterature)[1] How I Spent My Summer Vacation [2] Spenser's Last Case: Le Mystère d'Ail, Ail, Ail [3] A Wan Hunter Had Yourself Solid, Dude [4] "B" [5] The Fining Trial [6] Cheninagin's Wake: James Juice Takes the Wine Train [7] Don Quijones, the Man for Garnacha, or A Confederacy of Doonces [8] The pHs of Romanée County [9] Kacher in the Ribes [10] A Clockwork Orange Muscat [11] Trotanoy's Complaint [12] A Perfect Day for Barberafish [III] Poesy Galore[13] The Love Song of J. Alfred Rootstock [14] Howlbariño [15] The Rimeshot of the Ancient Marsanner [16] Bash_ Does Beltramo's [17] A Holiday Message [18] Da Vino Commedia: The Vinferno [IV] Taking It Doon-Tune[19] Don Giovese in Bakersfield: An Opera Giacosa [20] Born to Rhône: Selections from a Rock (and Gravel) Opera [V] Enough Rope: Extracts from the Nooseletter[21] Manichean Rules, or The Continental Divide [22] Podea, or Unhand the Maiden, Sirrah! [23] Reductio ad Sulfatum, or A Penny for Your Thoughts [24] The Almost Pleasanton Years, or In the Belly of the Republikaner Beast [25] Up the Yin/Yang without a Paddle [26] Ca' del Solo, or Home Alone [27] Revenge [VI] Connerie (Schtick)[28] Preface to Unwritten Book [29] Why French Wine No Longer Matters, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Long-Chain Tannins [30] Totally Screwed: Three (3x) Top Ten Lists [31] The Heartbreak of Wine Geekdom: Ten Ways You Know You've Met a Real Wine Geek [32] Good Morning, Swedes [33] Le Cigare of the Future [34] Making the List at Elka's [35] Preface to Wines of Italy [36] Are You Experienced? [37] Doon to Earth [VII] Earnest Speeches and Sober Essays[38] Sustainability [39] Bungle in the Jungle: "How Does a Wine Mean?" or A Season in Wine Hell [40] How I Overcame my UC Davis Education [41] Six Feet Under: A Meditation on Roots, Minerals, and Vinous Immortality [42] "Great" Wine in the Postmodernist World [43] In Search of a Great Growth in the New World [44] Terroir and Going Home [45] A Meditation on Terroir: The Return Glossary
