Wine Know-How

Author Jon Bonné offers handy rules to make us more savvy about drinking and buying wine.
Photo: Erik Castro

Meet wine writer Jon Bonné and celebrate his newest book in an event at Paul Marcus Wines in Market Hall.

The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know offers 101 short and smart lessons on drinking, buying, storing, and sharing wine. Here are two examples:

Rule 47: You can drink rosé any time of the year.
Rule 75: Ordering wine is a conversation, not a test.

Bonné is senior contributing editor for PUNCH and was formerly wine editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also author of The New California Wine. Info: here or 510.420.1005

NPR says: In a stylish book, one of the leading American voices writing on wine today covers 101 topics on drinking, buying, storing, and sharing wine through very short lessons with informative illustrations along with each. 

Meet Jon Bonné at Market Hall
The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know
Thursday March 29, 5–7 pm
Rockridge Market Hall
5655 College Ave, Oakland