Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate
A geologist wanders through the world of wine
$114.33
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2025
Summary
Burgundy thrives on the limestone remnants of a warm, shallow sea while Sancerre and Pouilly wrap their roots around flint. The finest Pomerols bloom in a ‘button’ of blue clay, and Beaujolais famously begins life in granite. Cabernet Sauvignon loves just about any sandstone and Champagne gets on gloriously with chalk. But is the secret to great port really schist? Alex Maltman, emeritus professor of earth sciences at Aberystwyth University, finds himself between a rock and a vineyard place a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917084628 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1917084625 |
| Author: | Professor Alex Maltman, Alex Maltman |
| Publisher: | ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED |
| Imprint: | ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.15kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 189mm |
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Critics Review
“It’s such a good read…” - Decanter“With the ironically titled Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate—the second of the one-two punch that began with Vineyards, Rocks, & Soils— Maltman offers ironclad science in velvety prose to challenge the rampant notion that it is possible to taste the rocks beneath the vineyard from which a given wine hails.” - The World of Fine WineThe author of Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate was interviewed by German magazine Effilee. - EffileeRecommended in the New York Times’ article “The Most Interesting Wine Books of 2025 - Other Titles Worth Reading”: “If The Cynic’s Guide to Wine puts you in the mood for further myth-puncturing, I suggest “Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: A Geologist Wanders Through the World of Wine” by Alex Maltman.” - NY Times
About The Author
Professor Alex Maltman
Alex Maltman is emeritus professor of Earth sciences at Aberystwyth University, in Wales, UK, and the author of Vineyards, Rocks and Soils: A Wine Lover’s Guide to Geology (Oxford, 2018).
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