Often unusually well-written by comparison with ordinary wine journalism ... Taken together, these articles are profoundly elegiac ... So read The Juice as you might a novel, and if possible at a single sitting. It contains the best writing from McInerney since Bright Lights, Big City. And squinted at from the right angle, it is more genuinely affecting that the rest of his fiction put together

Standpoint

Jay McInerney has been laying open the modern American elite for nearly three decade in his fiction, beginning with his acclaimed debut Bright Lights, Big City. In similar fashion, he's also done a very effective job of demystifying viticulture ... sparkling yet robust ... Even if you're teetotal, it's intoxicating

Metro

Wonderful ... few professional wine writers are also superb writers ... McInerney loves wine, and he writes beautifully about it ... often insightful and funny. The book concludes with a captivating article on the now-defunct restaurant elBulli and its wine list, which almost made me wish I had gone there

Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement

An excellent wine writer. Self-deprecating, charming and funny

Sunday Telegraph on A Hedonist in the Cellar

It is a pleasure to see the wine world through a novelist's playful eyes, and to feel the infectious joy McInerney finds in great wines, places and personalities from around the world

New York Times

McInerney brings style and a sense of fun to a subject that can too often feel the preserve of the knowledgeable elite

Daily Mail