Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

by Bianca Bosker

If you’ll indulge my name dropping: 1893 Château Montrose, one of Bordeaux’s Second Growth estates; 1967 and 1974 Château Cheval Blanc, one of just four famed Saint-Émilion producers to be awarded the top rank of Premier Grand Cru Classé A; and three vintages—1989, 1942, and 1921—of Château d’Yquem. All of those wines left me feeling, to Morgan’s point, like I’d been “harpooned in the fucking chest.”