The University of California Press has just published Kerin O’Keefe’s Barolo and Barbaresco: The King and Queen of Italian Wines (346 pp, maps, photos, index: $39.95). I’ve been wanting to announce this ever since, over a year ago, I read the manuscript for the Press and enthusiastically recommended publication: To my mind, this is the most important book on these two great wines yet published.
Read more here: https://ubriaco.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/a-new-book-on-barolo-barbaresco-plus-a-related-item/
Tom Maresca has been writing about wine for 40 years. He is the author of two wine books, Mastering Wine (which won the first-ever Clicquot Prize for Wine Book of the Year) and The Right Wine. He has been a frequent contributor to Decanter and to Quarterly Review of Wines. He is also the co-author, with his wife, Diane Darrow, of two major books on Italian food, wine, and dining: La Tavola Italiana and The Seasons of the Italian Kitchen; as well as a mini ecookbook (with wine recommendations), Not The Same Old Spaghetti Sauce. Now retired, he was a professor of English at Stony Brook University and has published four books on academic subjects.
