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As the author learns about wine, so do we in this book full of candour and wit and fine writing. `What makes one wine better than another?' and other fundamental questions, whether human or cultural, technical or historical, addressed in a wide-ranging and autobiographical book based on the author's enormous experience of the pleasures of wine. Tasting, keeping, savouring, cellaring, choosing, understanding, comparing, buying - the world of wine filtered through the vast knowledge of one of the greatest writers and practitioners, renowned throughout the world.
'…his most charming and engaging book on wine… should be sipped with undiluted escapist pleasure… gloriously moreish … he is at the peak of his powers, and paragraph after paragraph unfolds with such deft economy, such adept marshalling of detail, such intelligent use of elision, such polished narrative brio and ... such a keenly expressed sense of wonder that one's interest never flags… the choice recollections of one of the most fortunate and thoughtful wine drinkers in history.'
FINE WINE MAGAZINE
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