“Mon cours d’accords mets et vins” is a book by Fabrizio Bucella. In it, the author tackles a great question head-on: how to pick a wine that suits what you’re eating. The book is well-written, beautifully illustrated, and, crucially, built around hands-on exercises. The kind that let you actually learn pairing by doing it. In short, buy it eyes closed.
What’s the food and wine pairing course about?
As the title suggests, the book is mostly about food and wine pairings. But it’s also an invitation to taste and to actually practice, through concrete exercises designed to make wine click. It’s deeply pedagogical, and an excellent opportunity to learn more about wine in general. Tasting and pairing become the pretexts for digging into a specific wine topic. For example: where does the acidity in white wine come from, and how does it show up? If you want to know, you’ll have to work through the first exercises in Bucella’s course.
Whether it’s whites, reds, starters, mains, cheeses, dessert, and even harder pairings, this book gives you the foundations to pick the right wine for your meal or dinner.
One warning: pleasure is contagious. Some lessons require multiple bottles for a single exercise (a more acidic white and a less acidic one, for example). So we’d recommend doing this with friends. Beyond a great evening together, you’ll be initiating them into tasting too.
Who’s the book for?
“Mon cours d’accords mets et vins” is for any wine lover. Whether you’re brand new to wine or you want to push deeper, this guide will work for you. Don’t hold back even if you don’t know much yet, one thing’s certain: you’ll progress fast.
The 10 lessons are well-illustrated, with growing difficulty and technicality. So you’ll progress at the pace of the course. Step by step you’ll absorb the food-and-wine knowledge and become a real expert.
Why buy it?
Whether as a gift, to learn more about wine, or to discover the science of pairings, this wine book is an excellent pick, it’ll fit on your shelf no problem. Plus, learning food and wine pairings will help you build out your wine cellar, you’ll choose better bottles for the dishes you love and avoid pairing mistakes.
Whether to prep your dinners better, please your friends, impress them, or progress in the wine world, every reason is a good reason to add this book to your reading list. We’d recommend the print version, it makes the tasting exercises much easier to do.
Once again, the now-famous author of Pourquoi boit-on du vin? doesn’t disappoint. Go buy it.
