Wine: A Life Uncorked
- ISBN-10
- 0297843788
- ISBN-13
- 9780297843788
- Series
- Wine
- Category
- Wine and wine making
- Pages
- 383
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Author
- Hugh Johnson
Description
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.
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