The history and worths of the famous Château d’Yquem, misconception of Sauternes and Maison whose red wines every winelover wish to attempt and treat in their own cellar in the volume composed by food and red wine critic Cinzia Benzi with pictures by Francesca Brambilla and Serena Serrani.
With Château d’Yquem, the monographic volume released by seipersei devoted to among the most renowned truths of the French red wine scene, Cinzia Benzi highlights the evolutionary course of an estate efficient in producing memorable red wines, where Time enforces regard for an ancestral custom and directs the gestures to be carried out.
In the book more technical concepts such as the description of the vines and winemaking designs embraced, however likewise the essential figures that focus on the winery, from the solid and visionary creator Joséphine Sauvage d’Yquem, whose story remembers the very best coming-of-age books, to the existing president and basic supervisor Pierre Lurton, together with the extremely Italian director d’exploitation Lorenzo Pasquini, who today leads us towards the future of Yquem.
Numerous figures from the food and red wine sector took part in the writing of the book: Eleonora Cozzella, partner of Repubblica; Federico De Cesare Viola, editorial director of Food & White Wine Italia; Maddalena Fossati Dondero, handling director of La Cucina Italiana; Andrea Grignaffini, director of Le guide de L’Espresso; Paolo Marchi, co-founder of Identità Golose; Leila Salimbeni, editorial director of Spirito Divino; the Master of White Wine Gabriele Gorelli and Massimo Bottura and Giuseppe Palmieri, respectively chef client and dining establishment supervisor of Osteria Francescana in Modena.
Each contribution is developed to use both the professional and the amateur an extensive summary of the Yquem world and its tricks. However when words are insufficient … here comes the power of photography through the lens and look of Francesca Brambilla and Serena Serrani, professionals in still life and photographic reportage and leading interpreters of Italian food photography. Following Cinzia Benzi on her journey, they inscribed expressive images on the movie, which they transfer amongst the vineyards in the sluggish alternation of the seasons, in the silence of the cellars where the bottles rest, amongst the stones with which the estate was developed. Minute information and big panoramas discussion in a well balanced method with the composed word, providing the reader a similarly extreme and effective story, made from light, lines and colours.
Lastly, to improve the work, the illustrations by Gianluca Biscalchin, who translates Yquem’s tasting notes, lays out a few of the possible pairings with the red wine and uses other glances of the estate.
” Life resembles the vine that alters its leaves and produces fruit, however the genuine included worth is the roots well planted in the earth” remarks Cinzia Benzi at the end of a book that grows page after page and which uses a valuable insight into the genesis of a misconception: that of Château d’Yquem.
