99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines.

The book is a wine guide only in the sense that each vignette involves some beverage - usually wine, but sometimes bottled water, juice, beer/ale/malt liquor, or distilled spirits. The author's total commitment to the proposition that wine preferences are derived from the circumstances in which a wine is consumed leads to a disjointed, haphazard overview of wines. Some vignettes discuss the challenges of assembling a wine list for a high-end restaurant, which separates a sommelier from a good wine server. [Extracted from the article]