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  • Searching the World for the Best, the Worst, the Outrageously Cheap, the Insanely Overpriced, and the Undiscovered
  • By: Mike Veseth
  • Narrated by: John Badila
  • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Extreme Wine

By: Mike Veseth
Narrated by: John Badila
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In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds celebrity wines, tries to find wine at the movies, and discovers wines that are so scarce that they are almost invisible.

Why go to such extremes? Because, Mike argues, the world of wine is growing and changing, and if you want to find out what's really happening you can't be afraid to step over the edge. Written with verve and appreciation for all things wine, Extreme Wine will surprise and delight listeners.

©2013 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks

Critic Reviews

"Highly recommended." ( Library Journal)
"Compelling for any wine drinker..." ( Booklist)

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good overall. Dodgy narrator.

An entertaining and well-written book that is neither pretentious nor irreverent. It treats its subject matter respectfully but with a sense of fun, enjoying the world of wine for both its exquisite richness and its occasional silliness. The narrator leaves a lot to be desired, though. His tone feels wooden, and I suspected for the first few minutes that he might be a computerised voice (though I don't think so - occasional breathing or lip-smacking sounds are audible). I grew used to the voice, and didn't mind it well, though he never really felt like he connected to the prose he was reading. His disconnection to the material becomes particularly grevious when he gets to the section about the famous 1980s 'antifreeze' scandal. As anyone who's heard about this scandal knows, it involved Austria (and, indirectly, Germany). Yet the author repeatedly says "Australia". Not just once or twice, but a dozen or so times throughout the section, including the section title, referring to the "Australian antifreeze scandal" that crippled the "Australian wine industry" and so on. Since both Austria and Australia are significant wine-producing countries, this is more than a quirky blooper, but is downright misleading. I'm assuming that the blame lies with the narrator, and not in the original text. Though I suppose either way, it speaks poorly of narrator, author and publisher that such a repetitive and sloppy mistake could make it through to the end product. It unfortunately makes me less willing to trust the rest of the narration.

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