Jancis Robinson
Wine writer and Master of Wine; Financial Times wine columnist, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine.
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Loved The Wines of Bordeaux
He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.
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Recommends Inside Burgundy
There's a very good book on Burgundy called Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris, which is really nice and beautifully designed as well. I would certainly recommend it to anyone.
fivebooks.com 30 Jun 2018
Loved The Juice: Vinous Veritas
I've chosen his third collection of writing about wine, The Juice. They're all fun. They're all very well written because Jay is a very good writer, and doesn't take it too seriously.
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Recommends Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
fivebooks.com 30 Jun 2018
Liked The Complete Bordeaux
It is not dry and scientific. I don't think Stephen is particularly interested in science. It's got lots of value judgements, and it is a good solid read.
fivebooks.com 30 Jun 2018
Loved Pocket Wine Book
I take my hat off to Hugh. This is one wine reference book that I have nothing to do with, and it is absolutely brilliant. It's very small—although, of course, it's been getting bigger and bigger as the wine world has expanded—and it does pack a heck of a lot of information.
fivebooks.com 30 Jun 2018
Recommends World Atlas of Wine
The World Atlas of Wine has unrivalled maps. Hugh did a fantastic job, the real spadework, of getting some top quality maps of the world's classic wine regions and many of the new ones. The original editions had Hugh's matchless prose, trying to encapsulate the spirit of each region in surrounding texts, but the maps are the thing, and some photographs.
fivebooks.com 30 Jun 2018
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Site jancisrobinson.com Her wine site: tasting notes, articles and her purple pages.
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