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Bianca Bosker Book Signing at Silverado Vineyards

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CORK DORK author’s only Napa Valley event on book tour

March 2017, Napa Valley —- Bianca Bosker, the author of CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste, will be featured at Silverado Vineyards on April 2. Ms. Bosker will read from her new book, answer questions, and sign copies of the book, which will be available for sale. Full of amazing stories, incredible facts, and scientific research, CORK DORK is a charming, informative memoir that digs deep into how improving our senses can help create a more colorful life. CORK DORK has received early praise from among others, Jay McInerney, who called CORK DORK a “brilliant feat of screwball participatory journalism,” and Susan Orlean, who called it “smart and sharply observed … a marvelous journey through the mad, manic, seductive subculture of wine and wine lovers.” 

The event, which begins at 2:00 p.m. and ends at 4:00 p.m., is gratis and open to the public. RSVPs are required, to events@silveradovineyards.com; questions to 707/259-6644.

The winery is located at 6121 Silverado Trail in Napa just south of Yountville. Guests will enjoy a tasting of current releases.

Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist who has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The New Republic. The former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China. She lives in New York City.

The account of her year-and-a-half journey, CORK DORK: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste (Penguin Books Original; ISBN: 9780143128090; On-sale: March 28, 2017; $17.00) takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, a Burgundy bacchanal, Michelin-starred restaurants, an fMRI machine, and more as Bosker strives to make sense, once and for all, of our complicated relationship with fermented grape juice.

Compulsively readable, fascinating, and a hilarious exploration of the wine world, CORK DORK includes: Bosker’s training for and entry into the country’s oldest sommelier competition, with hilariously disastrous results (though she does eventually become certified); behind-the-scenes looks at two elite Manhattan restaurants, where she trailed sommeliers and watched the complicated dance of service and hospitality unfold and the science behind how we can improve our senses of taste and smell, and thereby live more richly

More Americans are drinking wine than ever before, yet the rituals, customs, and language around it are as rarefied and opaque as ever, leaving many of us wondering what all the fuss is about. What makes the bottle I bought for last week’s dinner party “bad?” Are sommeliers just pretentious, glorified salespeople, or can they actually taste things like pyrazine and honeysuckle in wine? And why do so many people devote their lives (or life savings) to experiencing minute differences in flavor that most of us can’t even perceive, let alone appreciate? These were some of the questions obsessing Bianca Bosker when she decided to give up her job as executive tech editor at the Huffington Post in favor of tasting wines at 8 a.m., lifting and sorting heavy bottles as a “cellar rat” in one of Manhattan’s top restaurants, and foregoing coffee, spicy foods, and sometimes even toothpaste in order to taste better.

SILVERADO VINEYARDS

In 1981, Ron and Diane Miller established Silverado Vineyards to make wine from the historic vineyards of their estate. Napa pioneers first planted these ranches to vines between 1865 and 1895. Each vineyard played an important role in establishing the reputation of their growing area: Carneros, Coombsville, Yountville, Soda Creek Canyon and Stags Leap District. The beautiful fruit from these six vineyards is the exclusive source of Silverado Vineyards’ Estate and Single Vineyard wines – the Miller family’s highest expression of the Napa Valley they love and admire.

The winery offers The Estate Tour and Tasting (based at the winery); The Silverado Experience (based at the winery); Library Tasting (at the winery) and The Saddle Block Tasting (a private vineyard tour and tasting), by reservation, at https://www.vinovisit.com/partners/silverado-vineyards/.

The winery has recently redesigned its labels. Annabel Rey, the eldest granddaughter of Diane Disney Miller & Ron Miller and eldest great-granddaughter of Walt Disney, created a new line drawing of the winery in 2006 on the occasion of the winery’s 25th anniversary. She recently revised the artwork and it now appears on the 2015 Chardonnay and soon, on the 2016 Sauvignon Blanc, 2014 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and 2014 Merlot.

PENGUIN

Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, is dedicated to its mission of nourishing a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere. With nearly 250 independent imprints and brands on five continents, Penguin Random House comprises adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses in more than 20 countries worldwide, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, South Africa, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Portugal, and Uruguay. With over 15,000 new titles, and close to 800 million print, audio and eBooks sold annually, Penguin Random House’s publishing lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors.  

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