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Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide Oz Clarke

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide By Oz Clarke

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide by Oz Clarke


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Wine experts Oz Clarke and Steven Spurrier have joined forces to put together this authoritative guide to the world's best wines. Organized by country and wine region, the book lists the best wines, best vineyards, and best producers.

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide Summary

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide: 2001 by Oz Clarke

CLARKE & SPURRIER'S FINE WINE GUIDE is designed to be the ultimate ready-reference to the world's best wines: a connoisseur's bible. Whether buying, reviewing past purchases, eating out or travelling abroad, every fine wine lover needs constantly to look up the best producers and vintages. CLARKE & SPURRIER's book, with its authoritative evaluations, handy, stylish format and weath of information and recommendations has become the standard reference of its kind. Organised by country and wine regions, it covers only the world's best wines - though not necessarily best-known - in an easy-to-use format of at-a-glance lists of the best wines, best vineyards, best producers and other essential information. Included are all the names to look out for (growers, estates and key wine zones), personal recommendations from both the authors, up-to-date profiles of producers and regions, detailed vintage and maturity information including year-by-year assessments.

Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide Reviews

When two noses such as those of Steven Spurrier and Oz Clarke collude, the results are bound to be extraordinary. Spurrier is probably best known for the notorious blind tasting in Paris in the 1970s in which world-class experts ranked a Californian wine higher than the grandest Bordeaux crus classes. The energetically egregious Clarke has consistently managed to combine a breezy style with the highest standards of taste and discrimination. This guide is aimed unapologetically at the top end of the market; and with an aristocratic disregard of price (the wines are likely to be expensive, some of them grotesquely so) the emphasis is firmly on luxury and quality. The concentration of top-end wines in this book is intoxicating in the extreme. As Clarke and Spurrier review the chateaux of Bordeaux, the phrases take on a kind of music: beautiful dense fruit, never too heavy nor too extracted; true botrytis richness and depth; seduces when young but can improve for several decades; deep smoothness of fruit but also balancing tannins. The judgements are not handed down lightly. No South African wine, for example, is awarded the top rating of three stars, despite the extraordinary quality of wines produced in the country. At this level, the competition is severe. Whether your intention is investment or pleasure, Clarke and Spurrier will show you how to spend your money wisely. Robin Davidson, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW ...an excellent country by country, personal guide to some of the world's best [wines]. Better still, the producer entries give some of the most descriptive impressions of what you'll actually find in the glass. DECANTER

About Oz Clarke

Oz Clarke is a highly respected authority on wine. He appears regularly on BBC TV's Food and Drink and writes on wine for the Daily Telegraph. Steven Spurrier has been working in the wine trade since 1964 and employed his immense knowledge of Fine Wines when he created the renowned wine courses at Christie's, the auctioneers.

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GOR005293010
9780316855976
0316855979
Clarke and Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide: 2001 by Oz Clarke
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown & Company
20010104
352
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