First Big Crush, The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under

A straight-up, honest (and humorous) read following Eric Arnold's New Zealand wine adventure.

"First Big Crush is unlike any wine book I've ever read, a hugely entertaining hybrid of the
participatory journalism of George Plimpton, the hallucinatory journalism of Hunter Thompson, and frat house bathroom graffiti. He's a bull in the china shop of wine writing and it's a pleasure to see him breaking everything in sight." Jay McInerney, author of The Good Life.

"First Big Crush is a literary love child of Maxium and Wine Spectator: a raunchy, rollicking tale of a young guy's year in the vineyards of New Zealand, where his love of wine matures - somewhat - from the hunt for a cheap buzz to a genuine passion and appreciation." Ted Allen, host/narrator of the PBS series Uncorked: Wine Made Simple, food and wine specialist for Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and author of The Food You Want to Eat.

Softcover, 246 pages.