This is the final set of wine (and calvados) book reviews from our hard-working, irreverent and completely independent reviewer in Ireland, Paul O'Doherty.
Naked Wine
Letting Grapes Do What Comes Naturally
Alice Feiring
Da Capo Press
£15.99/$24
For Feiring's 'naked wine' read 'naturally made wine' without the safety
blankets of added enzymes, tannins, sulphur and yeast – just as Dionysus might have intended, in fact. And, for Feiring, naked means naked: alone, unprotected and vulnerable. However, there's a problem. It doesn't make sense. Making wine, naked or otherwise, also means the inclusion and influence of the vigneron, winemaker, consultant, terroir...