Jancis Robinson
Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.
Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris
There's a very good book on Burgundy called Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris, which is really nice and beautifully designed as well. I would certainly recommend it to anyone.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
Pocket Wine Book by Hugh Johnson
I take my hat off to Hugh. This is one wine reference book that I have nothing to do with, and it is absolutely brilliant. It's very small—although, of course, it's been getting bigger and bigger as the wine world has expanded—and it does pack a heck of a lot of information.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
The Complete Bordeaux by Stephen Brook
It is not dry and scientific. I don't think Stephen is particularly interested in science. It's got lots of value judgements, and it is a good solid read.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
The Juice: Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney
I've chosen his third collection of writing about wine, The Juice. They're all fun. They're all very well written because Jay is a very good writer, and doesn't take it too seriously.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
The Wines of Bordeaux by Edmund Penning-Rowsell
He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines by Suzanne Mustacich
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson
The World Atlas of Wine has unrivalled maps. Hugh did a fantastic job, the real spadework, of getting some top quality maps of the world's classic wine regions and many of the new ones. The original editions had Hugh's matchless prose, trying to encapsulate the spirit of each region in surrounding texts, but the maps are the thing, and some photographs.
on fivebooks.com · 30 Jun 2018
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