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The World Atlas of Wine

by Hugh Johnson

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A classic of the wine world. This book is an excellent introduction to wine in general and to the differences between wines from different countries and regions in particular. Lots of reccommendations on wines to try as well. Full of the cutting British humor. ( )
  piefuchs | Dec 1, 2006 |
I'll be a bit disloyal here. I live in Spain but French wine is much better & I read Hugh Johnson's book as I get through the bottles. ( )
  Miro | Dec 9, 2005 |
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0671886746, Hardcover)

The World Atlas of Wine is something of a dream-team production. The names Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson alone recommend any book on which they appear. 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 characterizing wine production throughout the world, from Vancouver Island to Japan--Buddhists first planted vines in that inhospitably precipitous, monsoon-lashed land over a 1,000 years ago. After a substantial introductory section dealing with the history of wine, its making, storage, and enjoyment, we're off. Starting with (where else?) France and Burgundy, each wine area is summarized 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, Canada, Southern France, Italy, Greece, Eastern Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean are among the areas that have benefited. The regional maps that form the core of the book are a triumph of clarity. The whole production constitutes a brilliant achievement of organization 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, Amazon.co.uk

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400)

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