The world's best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 45th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. It provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. It reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a colour supplement: The Ten Best Things About Wine Right Now.
Tiramisú Vin Santo, young Tawny Port, MUSCAT de Beaumes-de-Venise, Sauternes, or Australian Liqueur Muscat. Better idea: skip the wine. Trifle Should be sufficiently vibrant with its internal Sherry (Oloroso for choice).
With this book in hand, wine lovers won’t need anything else to help them select anything from a bottle for an everyday dinner to a prestige vintage for investment.
Beyer, Léon Al r w → Top family AL house, arch-traditionalists delivering intense, dry gastronomic wines listed by many Michelin-starred restaurants. Best, and calling card, is lovely RIES Comtes d'Eguisheim 14 17'.
Offers vintage charts; regional maps; notes on history, production, and appreciation; and information on the best bargains; and describes more than five thousand wines from all over the world
... Al GRAND CRU in two parcels; v. aromatic wines. GEWURZ does v. well 09 14. RIES esp 0810 12 from BRUNO SORG, LÉON BEYER Comtes d'Eguisheim, Paul Ginglinger. Philipponnat Champ Small house, intense, winey.
It is recognized by critics as the essential and most authoritative wine reference work available. This eighth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the world of wine.
A guide to more than six hundred of the world's major garden and forest trees includes coverage of the structure and life cycle of trees, how they are used in landscape design, and tree planting and care.
The must-have book for all wine enthusiasts and collectors, from the world's leading writer on wine, Hugh Johnson. Hugh Johnson has been writing about wine for six decades, and his books have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh For more than 45 years Hugh Johnson has written Trad's Diary, delighting in recording his observations of his own garden, as well as many others, and...
Wine lovers can keep their cellar records in order with this smart, indispensable guide designed by award-winning author Hugh Johnson and laid out in the way he finds most useful.