Book Description
This annually updated guide covers the best producers from all of the worlds winemaking regions. Over 2000 wine estates and producers are covered in detail as well as more than 14,000 wines. Regional sections include maps and lists of profiled producers by region or appellation. Also full details on agents/stockists and grape glossary (over 150 varieties), technical glossary and is fully-indexed.
Described by Steven Spurrier (Decanter magazine) as: An incredibly in-depth and addictively readable survey of wines of quality from around the world with intelligent tasting notes and informative background to the producers, plus stockists and UK prices. For me, by far the best of the wine guides.
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From the Back Cover
As more people are discovering the joys of fine wine there is a real need to discern both quality and value; this book is the answer.
An incredibly in-depth and addictively readable survey of wines of quality from around the world with intelligent tasting notes and informative background to the producers, plus stockists and UK prices. For me, by far the best of the wine guides
Steven Spurrier, Decanter Magazine
This is Robert Parker territory but succinct and cheaper
Joanna Simon,
Sunday Times
I heartily recommend this book as a thorough independent overview of the worlds best wine estates
Tom Cannavan, wine-pages.com
Id plump for this in preference to many of the rather unimaginative titles offered by mainstream wine publishers
Jamie Goode, wineanorak.com
As essential to the sommelier as their corkscrew
Paul Dwyer, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio Scotland
If you are passionate about your wine and pay serious attention to sampling the worlds finest bottles then this book should be on your shelf
I would strongly recommend this excellent guide
Dr Edward Fitzgerald, Oxford University Wine Society
This definitive reference work covers over 12,000 wines from over 1500 of the worlds best producers. With real insights into what a producers wines taste like: the authors elucidate not simply flavours, but each wines style.
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