corkscrews & wine bottle openers
corked
meet kathryn borel bon vivant and undutiful daughter . now meet her father philippe former chef eccentric genius and wine aficionado extraordinaire . kathryn is like her father in every way but one shes totally ignorant when it comes to wine . and although philippe has devoted untold parenting hours to delivering impassioned oenological orations she has managed to remain unenlightened . but after an accident and a death kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her fathers greatest passion she will never really know him . accordingly she proposes a drunken father daughter road trip . corked is the uncensored account of their tour through the great wine regions of france . uproarious poignant painfully introspective and filled with cunning little details about wine this is a book for any reader who has sought a connection with a complex family member or wanted to overcome the paralyzing terror of being faced with a restaurant wine list .