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The Wines and Foods of Piemonte – My New Book

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 Vineyards at Serralunga d’Alba

(Photo ©Tom Hyland)

My new book The Wines and Foods of Piemonte will be available soon. You can purchase the book at a special pre-release price. Details below.

I am completing my latest book The Wines and Foods of Piemonte, a look at what I believe is the finest wine and food region in Italy. The book is based on my frequent trips to Piemonte and will focus on wines from the entire region, from the Ossola Valley in the far north to the wines of Gavi in the south, not far from the border with Liguria. Of course, there will be a great deal of text focused on the most famous wines, such as Barolo and Barbaresco, but I am also writing about numerous gems such as Boca, Gattinara, Ghemme and Bramaterra. Whites such as Arneis, Gavi and Timorasso are also featured as are beautiful sparking wines, ranging from Asti Spumante to Alta Langa.

There will also be a focus on local foods and how the area’s chefs pair food with the local wines. Included in this section will be interviews with some of the leading chefs of Piemonte.

The interview section will also include discussions with some of the region’s most famous vintners, including Roberto Voerzio, Luca Currado (Vietti), Mariacristina Oddero and Christoph Kunzli (Le Piane).

The book will be in a hardcover edition and will feature 28 pages of full color photos that I have taken. It will be published by the University of Nebraska Press and will retail for $45. For a limited time, you can pre-order a copy at a special pre-release price. If you live in the United States, this pre-release price is $30 (which will include shipping). If you live outside the United States, the price will be $35 (again, shipping included).

To purchase the book now (until the end of May, 2015) at this special price, send me a payment for $30 for US residents or $35 for those outside the United States to my PayPal account. Use the email thomas2022@comcast.net.

Read an excerpt of the book here:

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tom hyland

I am a freelance wine writer and photographer specializing in the wines of Italy. I live in Chicago and recently completed my 77th trip to Italy. I have visited virutally every region in the country and am constantly amazed at the wonderful variety of wines produced from indigenous grapes (I am never amazed at the quality of the wines!). I have been in the wine business for 40 years, have been writing for 20 years and have been a professional photographer for the past twelve years. I currently contrubute to publications such as Decanter and wine-searcher.com. I am a freelance photographer for Cephas Picture Library in England and have had my photos published in several publications including Wine Spectator.

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  1. Dear Mr. Hyland,

    Thank you for your e-mail. The wood sounds fascinating and my wife and I plan to get several copies (at the paypall price) for family and friends.

    I did have one question though about one portion of the text that you provided. It says the the regulations “allow the use of chestnut for aging, virtually every producer uses wood.” Did you mean “oak” or something else? (At least you can see that we have been reading what you sent.)

    Regrds, Doug

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    1. Douglas:

      Thanks for the comment and for mentioning you would by the book- thank you!

      As to your question, one thing; you wrote that the “wood” sounds fascinating.” A Freudian slip, for sure. I know you meant “the book.”

      As for wood versus oak, I just checked the disciplinare regulations to make sure I hadn’t made a mistake and in Italian it reads, i rovere o di castagno, so chestnut or oak, so yes, both are wood, so basically, yes, oak is correct, but so is wood. Six of one, half dozen of the other, I guess!

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