Gee, academics can be party poopers, sometimes, can’t they?
Taste the Limestone, Smell the Slate: a geologist wanders through the world of wine, is a new book by Alex Maltman, emeritus professor of earth sciences at Aberystwyth University on the Welsh coast. In it, the author spends much of the book’s 300 pages gleefully skewering accepted wisdom about the influence of rocks and soils on the taste of wine – and getting stuck into wine journalists for perpetuating myths and misinformation with metaphors about minerality.