Shelley Lindgren is the wine director and owner of San Francisco's
beloved Italian restaurant A16. She has received the James Beard
Award for Outstanding Wine Program; has received the Slow Wine Fair
Award for Best Selection of Good, Clean, and Fair Italian Wine; and
has been knighted by the Italian government, receiving the
prestigious "Cavaliere dell'Ordine Della Stella Italia" (Dott.ssa)
distinction for her professional dedication to Italian wine.
Shelley's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Food &
Wine, Punch, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications.
She served on the board of La Cocina, the Guild of Sommeliers, and
Slide Ranch and is a member of Les Dames d' Escoffier. She lives in
San Francisco with her husband, two sons, and a border collie.
Kate Leahy is an author and coauthor of more than a dozen books,
including Wine Style, Lavash, La Buvette, and Burma Superstar. Her
work has been featured in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and Smithsonian
Magazine. A former line cook turned writer, she lives in San
Francisco with her partner and their corgi.
Shelley and Kate's first book, A16 Food + Wine, was IACP's Cookbook
of the Year. They are also coauthors of SPQR- Modern Italian Food
and Wine. This is their third book together, a culmination of two
decades of traveling to Italy and tasting Italian wines.
“A brilliant look into the past, present, and future of
wine and food in Italy. The book portrays the deep culture of
Italian tradition!”—Rajat Parr, owner-operator of Phelan Farm and
author of Secrets of the Sommeliers and The Sommelier’s Atlas of
Taste
“A pioneering sommelier and restaurant owner, Shelley
Lindgren has, for decades, been at the forefront of Italy’s
evolving wine culture and an early champion of producers that have
now become canon. Together with Kate Leahy, she has managed to
distill deep knowledge of and clear passion for Italy into an
indispensable, and approachable, guide to the producers,
places, and culture that make Italy’s wines among the world’s
greatest.”—Talia Baiocchi, editor in chief, Punch
“With Italian Wine, Lindgren and Leahy have managed the
impossible—to celebrate and explain Italy’s rich and storied
viticultural history while introducing us to those shaping its
wines today. This visually stunning and extremely
user-friendly book brings each region alive, honoring geography,
winemakers, and culinary traditions from the North to the South,
guiding us on a journey and informing us all the while. This book
will sit on my counter at the ready for those times I want
to escape to Italy, brush up on knowledge, or simply find
inspiration for dinner.”—Jordan Salcito, award-winning sommelier,
author, and founder of Drink RAMONA Organic Italian Spritzes
“Shelley Lindgren is positively, absolutely at the apex of
America's impassioned lovers of Italian wine. She has put in the
time (decades), the kilometers in Italy (thousands), and has served
for years some of the greatest glasses of Italian wines with
stupendously good food at her restaurant. As an admiring Italian
winegrower once said to me, ‘She knows all, my dear.’ It’s no
surprise that Italian Wine is a rarity: a book about the most
complicated, yet exhilarating, wine country in the world
that conveys all of its excitement—but blows away all the fuss
and bother. Really, you can’t ask for more or better than
that.”—Matt Kramer, author of True Taste: The Seven Essential Wine
Words
“For decades, Shelley has been a leading voice in the Italian wine
revolution and an early advocate for indigenous varietals of
Southern Italy. Her love for Italian wine has been a prophecy
realized. Italian Wine, which breaks the vast landscape into
regions and varietals, is a must-read for Italian wine
veterans and newbies alike. Shelley and Kate present Italy in a
straightforward and easy-to-read fashion. Shelley’s vast
knowledge of Italian wine and immense passion come through on every
page.”—Joe Bastianich, wine maker and restaurateur
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