As wine production goes, Maine’s a great beer state with the world’s best gluten-free doughnuts.
That’s the take-away from a new book by spirits writer Dan Dunn, whose American Wino was released nationally by HarperCollins last week. The former Playboy Magazine and Esquire writer, who managed to write five pages about a single hydroplaning nanosecond on the New Jersey Turnpike, managed just three paragraphs from several days in the Pine Tree State.
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