I actually have to thank Yummr for sponsoring this giveaway, and for giving us a chance to make this event even more fun! Yummr is a newly-found community of folks who are passionate about food and enjoy sharing their passion. Check them out!

Here’s a chance for you to win Alice Feiring’s recent book, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization.

I have not had the chance to read this book yet, but just the premise of it, is all about us. Here is a little something about it:

“n this entertaining oenological salvo, wine blogger and journalist Feiring makes an argument for wine authenticity through adherence to old techniques. She’s against what she calls Big Wine—viticulture as business and technology—and blames the shrinking appreciation for hand-vinified, long-aged Old World wines (like the Barolo that eventually led to her career) on, among other things, the UC–Davis School of Enology and Viticulture and the wine writings of critic Robert M. Parker Jr. (of the book’s title). But what sets her sprightly polemic apart is that her argument is pinned to a personal narrative of wine tours through Europe and California. Rounding out the Syrah-and-the-City parallels are several female characters who receive noms de vin like Honey-Sugar and the air-kissing Skinny, and most entertainingly of all, the author’s Carrie-like relationships. Parker looms like Mr. Big over all Feiring’s oenological relationships; they finally have a couple of phone dates that distill the differences between them down to quantifying (Parker) versus qualifying (Feiring). The author, who already has fans through her blog and other journalism, can count on new ones with this publication.”

1. Blog about your favorite summer wine and tell us why we should be drinking it this summer. Get as creative as you want. The sky is the limit.

2. Please make a new post for this event and link back to this blog. Only one post per blog please.

3. Email us at info@chezus.com, with your name, blog name and permalink to your post. Last date to send in entries is August 14th. Please include: “Parkerization” as your email subject.

4. After the roundup, we will select a winner based on the most enticing summer wine. In case we find it hard to select one, we’ll choose 3 finalists then hold a poll or choose a winner randomly from the finalists.

Chez US will personally ship the cookbook to the winner after they provide us with a mailing address.

Now go drink some wine, write about it, tell us why we should be drinking it this summer and have fun!