World Atlas Of Wine - Hardcover

Johnson, Hugh.

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ISBN 10: 0855335629 ISBN 13: 9780855335625

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, 1993

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This edition has been revised and updated to include 50 new maps and information to meet the changing needs of wine drinkers and buyers in the 1980s and 1990s. Hugh Johnson points out new developments and makes use of extra information it has been possible to add to maps, labels and artwork.

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This is something of a dream-team production. The names of Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson are self-recommending for any book on which they appear: their unprecedented collaboration on The World Atlas of Wine is a guarantee of the most distinguished and intelligent writing on the subject... so it proves. The fifth edition (in 30 years) of this astonishingly successful book lives up to, and surpasses, its predecessors. In 350 densely packed but never clotted pages the authors manage the extraordinary feat of characterising wine production throughout the world, from Vancouver Island to Japan--for Buddhists first planted vines in that inhospitably precipitous, monsoon-lashed land over a thousand years ago. After a substantial introductory section dealing with the history of wine, its making, storage and enjoyment, we're off. Starting (where else?) with France and Burgundy. Each wine area is summarised in terms of its geography, climate and preferred vines; and the appellations, laws and traditions that govern production. The discussion of Pomerol, for example, tells you a great deal in one short page. Even since 1994, when the fourth edition came out, vast changes have swept the wine world, and many parts of the atlas have been correspondingly completely reworked. South America and Canada, Southern France and Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean are among areas that have benefited. The regional maps which form the core of the book are a triumph of clarity. The whole production constitutes a brilliant achievement of organisation and synthesis, forming an indispensable resource for any wine lover at all interested in where the wine they drink comes from and why it tastes the way it does. --Robin Davidson

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Praise for the 5th edition

"Wine Book of the Millennium" Decanter

"This is the best collaboration of two Brits since Lennon and McCartney" -Ben Giliberti, Washington Post

"Consistently glittering" Times Literary Supplement

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