The Oxford Companion To Wine

Edited by award-winning wine writer Jancis Robinson, and with over 3,000 alphabetically-listed entries and a distinguished team of more than seventy international contributors, The Oxford Companion to Wine offers unrivalled coverage of wine in all its aspects: historical, geographical, social, scientific, and cultural. As well as authoritative entries on wine-making, wine appreciation, and the wine trade the book also offers both amateur and professional wine enthusiasts an enormous body of fascinating background information - from Dionysian revels in ancient Greece to Prohibition in 1920s America; from decanters, corkscrews, and glasses to soil types, pruning, and labelling. If you have a question about wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine will almost certainly have an answer. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, here is the ultimate wine reference book for anyone who wishes to enhance their enjoyment and knowledge of what Ernest Hemingway called `one of the most civilized things in the world'.