Thomas Ilkjær book about Amarone and its siblings from Valpolicella must fill out a solid gap in the market and it is strange if not a sales success. Throughout the recovery has been the great Amarone luxury indicator in Danish homes - so much so that success is about to devour itself with a lot of dubious Amarone in supermarkets, which (with Ilkjær own words in Saturday's Politiken) is "too expensive and too cheap wine Amarone." Amarone (and Veronaområdet where it is produced) has won many hearts, and this book is for all those goodies, while treats for all who are interested in wine in general.
style will be familiar if you know 'Politiken's book on Italian Wine' where Ilkjær is editor and has written several chapters. Maps, fact boxes and fabric subdivision is built on the same principles, but here obviously enlarged and more detailed.
While in an all-round book quickly For want of knowledge, you can not find the item here exhausted thoroughly. Ilkjær go completely into depth with all aspects of wine production in the Valpolicella and it's really interesting - especially because winemaking here is so complex and aspects of production are so many: Things like rådtyper and drying methods are, for example. not just large, highly topical issues in other wine regions.
The depth of the book are impressive, but the greatest achievement is probably still the way the substance is disseminated. Ilkjær have found a perfect balance between serious depth on one side and a dedicated communication on the other. The book is completely free for the old upper class fims (as part of the Anglo-Saxon vinjournalistik still struggling with). The style is straightforward, personal and vivid, but never in danger of falling into the other extreme - the fear of thoroughness, sobriety and details. Ilkjær are not native Amarone-lover and gives a healthy, critical distance which clothes the natural love of the subject, as one must have when one writes a book like this.
The major producer section is fantastic and can be read for pleasure, or used as reference. Here comes the thoroughness of the far sight - there is a huge effort behind the knowledge that there is made available to us all.
A superb book with beautiful pictures by René Riis. Heat recommendation from here.
PS. Also Finare Vinare recommend
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