January 17, 2017

Reading Water, and Vineyards

 I've been browsing through How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, by Tristan Gooley (The Experiment, 2016, 400 pages, $20). There's nothing in the book about wine, per se, but anyone with an interest in viticulture will know how critical bodies of water and precipitation are to it. Gooley is the author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs and The Natural Navigator; hikers, campers and stargazers are his target audience, but with water making headlines in California wine country last week, his newest title might be of interest to vintners too.