“Nicholas O’Connell’s Crush is a lively, personal tour through the joys—and travails—of making wine and is also packed with information and insights about wine in general. It’s an engaging read for anyone who starts feeling that crazy itch that they’d like, someday, to make their own wine—or for anyone who loves wine.”—Ray Isle, executive wine editor of Food & Wine and wine and spirits editor for Travel + Leisure
“Nicholas O’Connell’s level of experience is phenomenal: his decades of making wine, his writing style, and his obsession with making wine. This feels like once-in-a-lifetime work because it includes twenty-plus years of living, social drinking, and learning about wine. It is a memoir mirrored by winemaking. It is humble and humorous. Nothing else touches it.”—Mike Medberry, author of The Dark Side of the Moon and viticulturist at Frog’s Tooth Winery
“I’d wager there aren’t many wine lovers who haven’t fantasized, at least for a minute, about making their own wine. Nicholas O’Connell helps you scratch that itch without having to deal with swarms of fruit flies or take-their-time fermentations. O’Connell has taught writing for decades, and his considerable skills show in his vivid account of turning grapes into wine.”—Dorothy J. Gaiter, senior editor of Grape Collective
