Amazon.co.uk Review
You might think that, prices apart, not much is going to change between one year's edition of
Oz Clarke's Wine Buying Guide and the next. After all, we're all buying pretty much the same wines, aren't we? The wines Oz has done so much to popularise in his many books and television programmes: fresh, supple, lively young vintages from new or revivified growing areas such as South America, Australia and Eastern Europe. Not a bit of it. Wine is such a dynamic business, and drinkers' loyalties so mobile (or is that fickle?), that a year can bring enormous changes. Oz Clarke, his ear ever to the ground, reports that we seem to be getting bored with Chardonnay. Perhaps it's had its day. Could it be the Liebfraumilch
de nos jours? Next year may tell.
The format and structure of this essential volume remain unchanged. An opening section of Best Buys, Supermarket Selections and Wine Buyers Choices is followed a comprehensive and informative Retailers Directory and then the serious stuff of prices by region. As always, one looks for the prices that take one's breath away, and sure enough, the '78 Romanée-Conti is there at £3,760 a bottle. Somebody must be able to afford it. For everybody else, this guide is packed with immense quantities of information about good wine, at, by and large, reasonable prices, and where to buy it. It represents an amazing feat of organisation. How does Oz Clarke do it, year after year?--Robin Davidson
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The Sunday Telegraph
'If you haven't bought a copy, there is little hope for you.'
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