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Crushed
In his new book “Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink,” author Brian Freedman travels the world to explore the ways in which winemakers are facing a warming world. One of the key chapters is on how the Israeli wine industry is helping to find a way forward, and the wines featured in it are among the most exciting in the world. The wines offered here represent the best of Israeli reds, whites, and rosés, and embody everything that makes the wines of Israel so remarkable and important.
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About Brian Freedman
Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer, restaurant and beverage consultant, wine and spirits educator, and event host and speaker. He writes the Wines of the Week column at Forbes.com and also covers spirits there, regularly contributes to Food & Wine digital and SevenFifty Daily, has contributed to Travel + Leisure online, Departures online, Whisky Advocate Magazine, Wine Enthusiast, The Bourbon Review, and more. He also hosted wine and spirit pairing segments on the CNN Airport Network. In 2019, Brian was awarded a fellowship to attend The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers in Napa Valley. He consults for restaurants on their beverage programs, hosts dozens of virtual and in-person wine and spirits tastings for corporate and private clients each year, and has traveled to more than 50 countries and territories around the world, and extensively throughout the United States, to experience the food, drink, and culture for his work. His first book, “Crushed: How A Changing Climate Is Altering the Way We Drink,” was published in October 2022.
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Take a tour of wine and spirit production around the world and how climate change is affecting it at every stage – from cultivation to consumption.
CRUSHED is written for everyone who enjoys a nice glass of wine or a great dram of whiskey, and who has ever wondered how it got from its literal roots to the glass they’re holding in their hand. It’s for anyone who is interested in the ways in which our dramatically shifting natural environment is affecting the beverages we’ve all taken for granted.
