About Wine By J. Patrick Henderson & Dellie Rex Thomson Delmar Learning We were particularly interested to receive this book for review since it is a course book for professional/students and many of our readers work in the wine or restaurant trade (or hope to be). As soon as you see it it certainly gives […]
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The Bordeaux Atlas and Encyclopaedia of Châteaux
The Bordeaux Atlas and Encyclopaedia of Châteaux Hubrecht Duijker och Michael Broadbent Foulkes Publishers/Uitgeverij Het Spectrum B.V. An extensive tome, more like an encyclopaedia than a regular book, and here you will find most (if not all) of the interesting chateaux in Bordeaux. Each sub-district has a very informative introduction and very good maps. A […]
The Wines of Italy (new and revised edition) | BKWine Pick
The Wines of Italy (new and revised edition) Micèle Shah Mitchell Beazley £9.99 An almost pocket sized book that is easy to carry with you on the trip. Each Italian wine regions gets a short introduction which is followed by a listing of the appellations and a selection of producers, all with a short description. […]
The Ultimate Austrian Wine Guide | BKWine Pick
The Ultimate Austrian Wine Guide By Peter Moser Falstaff Publications, €19.90 The bulk of the book is a listing of Austrian wine producers. Each producer is described in detail and the wines are rated. It is virtually a catalogue of Austrian winemakers. But the book also contains good introductions to each of the wine regions […]
The Journal of Wine Economics (JWE) | BKWine Pick
The Journal of Wine Economics (JWE) American Association of Wine Economists This is not a book but a specialist, peer reviewed, scientific journal. The JWE is published by the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE). In the first issue you can read about, for example, how to interpret the result of wine tastings, what is […]
Spain and Tuscany | BKWine Pick
Northern Spain – How to find great wines off the beaten track Susie Barrie, text; Tory McTernan, photo Mitchell Beazley Tuscany – How to find great wines off the beaten track Monty Waldin, text; Tory McTernan, photo The Mitchell Beazley series Discovering Wine Country from Mitchell Beazley has recently seen two new additions: one on northern […]
The Wines of the Northern Rhône | BKWine Pick
The Wines of the Northern Rhône John Livingstone-Learmonth University of California Press I bought my first book about the Rhône valley wines sometimes in the early 1980s. It was the second edition of a book written by John Livingstone-Learmonth. So JLL is certainly no novice to the Rhône Valley, nor to writing about wine. As […]
