Robinson J. - The Oxford Companion to Wine

The Oxford Companion to Wine

Robinson J.

ISBN: 9780198609902
Vydavateľstvo: Oxford UP
Rok vydania: 2006
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  • A major new edition of the world's most respected reference book on wine
  • Almost 4,000 A-Z entries on a breathtaking range of topics, from grape varieties and regions to viticulture, growers, and the history of wine
  • Exhaustively revised and updated to include the very latest international research and opinion
  • Edited by the award-winning television host and Financial Times wine correspondent, Jancis Robinson OBE, Master of Wine
  • Almost 400 brand new entries including globalization, the politics of wine, co-fermentation, and brands, plus significant new updates on subjects such as climate change, yeast, barrel alternatives, viniculture, and virtually all wine regions
  • Beautiful new page design incorporating new colour photographs and black and white line drawings

New to this edition

  • Comprehensively revised and updated throughout
  • Over 400 brand new entries including globalization, the politics of wine, brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation
  • Significant new updates on hundreds of topics such as climate change, yeast, closures (for example synthetic corks and screwcaps) and their associated faults, barrel alternatives, viticulture and viniculture
  • Impressive global coverage of new wine regions, including Myanmar and Tanzania
  • Top local experts contribute entries on their specialist regions, such as James Halliday on Australia, Michael Fridjhon and John Platter on South Africa, and Patricio Tapia on Chile and Argentina
  • Stunning new page design
  • Includes brand new colour photographs and black and white line drawings
Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, from its origins to the present day.

Now exhaustively updated, this third edition incorporates the very latest international research to present almost 400 new entries on topics ranging from globalization and the politics of wine to brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation. Hundreds of entries have undergone major revision, among them yeast, barrel alternatives, climate change, and virtually all wine regions; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, and wine production and consumption by country.

Illustrated with maps of every important wine region in the world, useful charts and diagrams, and stunning colour photographs, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts - notably historical, cultural, and scientific - and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.

Readership: All wine lovers, wine merchants, students taking Master of Wine exams and catering courses, wine teachers and lecturers, restaurateurs, wine producers, vine growers, wine writers and journalists.