Category: Book
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Kickstarting Wines of the French Alps Book
With only 6 days to go there is still time to support the Wines of the French Alps book.
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The Wines of India
On 19th April there was an interesting event at Vintners Hall, London – a tasting of Indian wines, celebrating the book launch of The Wines of India, a Concise Guide, written by Peter Csizmadia-Honigh MW, winner of the 2014 Geoffrey Roberts Award. The Geoffrey Roberts Award is an international wine-related bursary of £4,000, given each…
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Jura Wine Book and Tasting in Geneva
A few photos from a successful evening at the Jura Wine Book and Tasting in Geneva on Thursday.
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Virgile’s Vineyard
It was, as my old friend Michael used to say: “A happy chance” – Patrick Moon has had a couple of them, which encouraged him to write this book. In 1997 Patrick, then in his mid 40s, decided to quit the legal profession, thinking that there ought to be time in life to achieve more than one…
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Through a Sparkling Glass
You have been a wine drinker for a while then one day you realise that there’s more to wine than meets the eye. You want to learn more, only to discover that there is so much information to assimilate, and all this knowledge can often seem too daunting. Here is a cheerful book that not…
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Oldman’s Brave New World of Wine
Sometimes it’s a pleasant change to read a wine publication that isn’t technical or learned. So I enjoyed this book by the young American wine writer Mark Oldman. With its subtitle of “Pleasure, Value and Adventure beyond Wine’s Usual Suspects” Mark introduces you to a world of discovery of “little gems where costs are moderate…