Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-century Winery
    Unavailable
    A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-century Winery
    Unavailable
    A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-century Winery
    Audiobook5 hours

    A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-century Winery

    Written by Kathryn Hall

    Narrated by Kathryn Hall

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    A lively husband and wife team recounts their twenty-year climb from amateur winemakers to recipients of an almost unheard-of perfect score from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.

    Kathryn and Craig Hall launched themselves head first into Napa Valley 20 years ago with the purchase of an 1885 winery and never looked back. Since the couple's purchase of their debut winery, their critically acclaimed HALL Wines and WALT Wines have become fixtures of the California wine industry, winning numerous accolades including a coveted 100-point "perfect score." A PERFECT SCORE weaves a vibrant tale of the HALL brand's meteoric rise to success, Napa Valley's tug-of-war between localism and tourism, and the evolving nature of the wine industry as a whole. Listeners who love a good glass of wine will find much to savor in the Halls' expert account of the art, soul, and business of a modern winery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateSep 13, 2016
    ISBN9781478912651
    Unavailable
    A Perfect Score: The Art, Soul, and Business of a 21st-century Winery

    Related to A Perfect Score

    Related audiobooks

    Beverages For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Collectible California

      Oct 29, 2019

      Collectible California
      7 min read

    • Article

      BY THE glass

      Jan 6, 2019

      BY THE glass
      3 min read

    • Article

      California Love

      Apr 23, 2019

      California Love
      2 min read

    • Article

      Briefs

      Sep 2, 2018

      GEELONG winemaker Doug Neal is returning to his first great loves - chardonnay and pinot noir - in a new region under a new brand. The long-time maker at Paradise IV in Geelong’s Moorabool Valley is moving on following the decision by Paradise IV vin

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Great Grape Crush

      Jun 26, 2021

      The Great Grape Crush
      2 min read

    • Article

      Uncorked

      May 3, 2023

      Uncorked
      7 min read

    • Article

      Heitz Cellars

      Apr 25, 2023

      Heitz Cellars
      2 min read

    • Article

      California Rides The Wave

      Oct 2, 2019

      How far can prices for top California wines go after several years of rapid growth? This question is concentrating minds following a boom period for classics like Opus One and newer-wave ‘cult Cabs’. Liv-ex’s California 50 index has risen by 76% in f

      2 min read

    • Article

      Return Of The Good Times

      Dec 2, 2018

      Return Of The Good Times
      4 min read

    • Article

      Briefs

      Dec 2, 2018

      Briefs
      27 min read

    • Article

      California's Best

      Dec 13, 2022

      U.S. consumers drink far more California wine than wine from any other place. This preference for drinking domestic is not unusual for a major wine-producing region; just ask the French, Italians or Spanish. For U.S. wine drinkers, California wine is

      3 min read

    • Article

      Venerated VINTNERS

      Dec 20, 2019

      Venerated VINTNERS
      2 min read

    • Article

      Venerated VINTNERS

      Dec 20, 2019

      Venerated VINTNERS
      2 min read

    • Article

      Zek’s Swansong

      May 2, 2021

      Zek’s Swansong
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Blender’s Foxheart

      Jun 3, 2021

      The Blender’s Foxheart
      6 min read

    • Article

      BRITISH Invasion

      Jul 1, 2022

      BRITISH Invasion
      2 min read

    • Article

      In Brief

      Oct 5, 2022

      Napa Valley land once home to the historic Soda Springs resort has been acquired by RH, a luxury design and furnishings group. RH chairman and CEO Gary Friedman told an earnings call: ‘We closed on 856 acres [346ha], probably the most beautiful piece

      1 min read

    • Article

      BRITISH Invasion

      Jul 1, 2022

      BRITISH Invasion
      2 min read

    • Article

      THE GOLDEN AGE of BOURBON

      Jan 11, 2022

      According to industry authority the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), since 2015, the luxury American whiskey category has grown at an astonishing annual rate of 41 percent. Super-premium whiskies have experienced an even more

      4 min read

    • Article

      In Brief

      Jan 2, 2020

      ■ A nationwide blind tasting conducted by Majestic Wine claims to have revealed the true preferences of British wine drinkers. More than 25,000 people blind-tasted a variety of red and white wines across Majestic’s 200 stores and voted for their favo

      1 min read

    • Article

      Nz Briefs

      Mar 3, 2019

      ESCHEWING the usual trans-Tasman rivalry, founder of the specialist UK retailer The New Zealand Cellar Melanie Brown, has launched The Australian Cellar. Brown, who is also wine buyer at Peter Gordan’s The Providores restaurant in Marylebone, establi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Nz Briefs

      May 5, 2019

      THE dynamic team at Invivo Wines is clearly not content just to sit back and enjoy its recent record-setting crowdfunding capital investment offer (which raised over $NZ4 million, $A3.8 million, from 687 investors in just over a fortnight) not to men

      3 min read

    • Article

      Briefs

      Nov 30, 2020

      Briefs
      18 min read

    • Article

      Victoria & Tasmania

      Jan 4, 2021

      Victoria & Tasmania
      10 min read

    Reviews for A Perfect Score

    3/5

    6 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      First, let me state that I love wine books. The history of wine, the stories about wineries, the making of wine, the marketing of wine, the tasting of wine, etc, etc. So my low rating of this book should not be seen as one by someone who just doesn't love wine. No, my rating is based on two overall observations I had while reading this book. 1) The writing style is very hard to follow. Sometimes the writing is in the voice of Ms. Hall, sometimes in the voice of her husband, sometimes in the voice of both of them at the same time, and sometimes in the voice of a third person entirely. And, these different voices may even occur all in the same paragraph! 2) Interwoven with the story of how the Hall's developed their wine, the reader is subjected to an endless list of famous people that the Hall's want you to know that they know. Why it is important to know that they are friends with former Texas governor Ann Richards, that the person selected to actually make the wine is the nephew of Irma Rombauer (she wrote the Joy of Cooking), that they had dinner parties for the likes of Toni Morrison, Walter Cronkite, Elie Wiesel, and Wynton Marsalis. Or that they are personal, very close friends of Robert Mondavi's. Or that they were asked to be ambassadors to Austria because of the recommendation of "our close friend, Senate leader Tom Daschle". And on and on. Are you getting the picture? Or that they took their own, extensive art collection with them to the Austrian ambassadorship, to help those poor Austrian people learn to appreciate good art? The tooting of their own horns became somewhat nauseating. In between all of this rambling, there is some good information. You can learn about the Napa Valley wine culture, and the marketing of wine. This part was interesting. The version of the book that I received is an advance reading copy, courtesy of NetGalley. It's my hope that the authors, or their publishers, pull the book back in for a solid rewrite. It has potential, just not in the current form.
    • 3/5
      a bit of Napa Valley history as memoir. Nicely detailed in places related to growing the vines and the wine making process.