Concise Wine Companion

Jancis Robinson, one of the world's best-known wine experts, offers here all the essential information about wine, drawn from her award-winning and best-selling Oxford Companion to Wine. No other wine book offers so much information about the wonderful world of wine at such an affordable price-over 2,350 unstuffy and fully cross-referenced entries on all aspects, from individual wines and wine regions to tasting terms, labelling, wine and health, grape varieties, wine faults, and a host of other issues. Features a unique listing of Jancis Robinson's personal selection of up-and-coming wine regions and producers, together with vintage guidance, a statistical overview of wine production and consumption, and a complete list of controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties.