Bordeaux and Its Wines [Hardcover]

Bordeaux and Its Wines, now in its seventeenth edition, is the ultimate book on the most legendary of all wine regions. Since 1846, "the classic reference work on Bordeaux wines" (Jancis Robinson, The Oxford Companion to Wine) has guided wine connoisseurs, wine professionals, and vineyard investors through this complex region, providing detailed information on every one of its 1,800 vineyards, more than 14,500 wine brands, and 200 wine merchants. No other title comes close to the comprehensive information on Bordeaux wines and wineries presented in this book. While ′Feret′, as it is colloquially known, is used by professionals for its comprehensive treatment of all facets of the Bordeaux wine region and industry, there is also information on the art of selecting, drinking and storing Bordeaux.

Bordeaux and Its Wines is indispensable for the serious wine enthusiast.

This prestigious book, like a fine wine polished by time and accumulated experience, is part dream and part emotion. A veritable invitation to awaken the senses, it distinguishes the giver as much as the person who receives it.

IN THE SERVICE OF BORDEAUX WINE FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY–AND–A–HALF

1845: First English edition of Charles Cocks′ book.

1850: First French edition. In 1868, Bordeaux and Its Wines becomes a reference work which comes under  the direction of Edouard Féret. With time, users baptize the book the "Féret".

2004: A practically perfect comprehensiveness, an extensive updating (more than 200,000 changes among the half–million details of the last English edition) and an enlarged scope of the information presented make this work indispensable for understanding the Bordeaux vineyard.

THE MOST COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BORDEAUX WINE

More than 50 researchers have edited the pages on basic knowledge to give the reader indispensable information necessary to understand Bordeaux wine. Professionals, researchers, engineers, professors, recognized and established specialists in each of the fields discussed have written chapters about the history of the vineyard, the grape varieties, vine pests and illnesses, vinification, barrel–aging, the art of choosing, drinking and storing Bordeaux wine, professional organizations, wine and health, vintages, etc. Each appellation is presented with an overview of its principal characteristics and production figures, as well as any pertinent classifications that apply. Thus the reader can look at the entire Bordeaux vineyard scene with all the necessary information: from the most modest to the most grand, from the most prestigious to the least known, here is an incomparable vision of Bordeaux′s production.

Bordeaux and Its Wines is a basic tool for the wine professional, an indispensable guide for the amateur, meeting the most varied needs and answering the most diverse questions. Whatever the status of the reader, specific answers will be found here: a search for a particular wine, an address, the existence of a Property, its history, its reputation, its official classification, the evolution of its production.

Three main indexes enable easy access to the information sought:

• branded wines and château names (almost 15,000entries)
• directors, owners and managers (more than 15,000 entries)
• winemaking communes (more than 500 entries)

These are the three essential keys to the discovery of:

• more than 7,400 growths (over 1,800 of which are described and illustrated in detail)
• more than 190 négociant houses.