The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
Edited by award-winning wine writer Jancis Robinson, and featuring over 3000 alphabetically-listed entries, this reference covers all aspects of wine: historical, geographical, social, scientific, and cultural. As well as authoritative entries on wine-making, wine appreciation and the wine trade, the book offers both amateur and professional wine enthusiasts an enormous body of background information - from Dionysian revels in ancient Greece to Prohibition in 1920s America; from decanters, corkscrews and glasses to soil types, pruning and labelling.
Jancis Robinson is one of the world's best-loved authorities on wine. A Master of Wine, a respected wine judge and lecturer, Robinson has also written and presented the award-winning BBC television series Jancis Robinson's Wine Course and She has been a regular columnist for Wine Spectator and is now the wine correspondent for the Financial Times. Author of several definitive books on wine as well as the autobiographical Confessions of a Wine Lover, she is also the editor of the multi-award-winning Companion to Wine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198661597 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198661592 |
| Title | The Oxford Companion to Wine |
| Author | Jancis Robinson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1994-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 1104 |
| Prizes | Winner of Glenfiddich Awards: Drink Book of the Year 1995 |
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