Gene Leynes

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The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is a great source of information for many aspects of wine. There is a lot of narrative information about wine producing countries, wine producing appellations, varietals, technical growing information, production (as in fermentation or grape crushing), storage, consumption (glasses, bottle aging, etc), and history (people, wineries, wine gods, folklore, myths, etc).

Other nice features: Articles frequently reference each other, with the article heading in bold for easy reference. There are great appendixes with wine stats (production, etc).

The only thing I didn't like about the book is that there is no pronunciation guide, which to me is a big negative. Overall, I doubt you… Read more