by Hugh Johnson
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This annually updated guide covers the best producers from all of the world’s 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.’
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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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 world’s best wine estates’
Tom Cannavan, wine-pages.com
‘I’d 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 world’s 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 world’s best producers. With real insights into what a producer’s wines taste like: the authors elucidate not simply flavours, but each wine’s style. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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