Uncork a whole new take on the fascinating story of wine, captivatingly told by everyone's favourite wine expert Oz Clarke. This fully updated edition takes us through the riveting twists and turns of the history of winemaking all the way to the very latest trials and innovations of the present day... Join Oz Clarke on a journey through the ages as he explores the places, the people and the bottles that have shaped the captivating history of wine. Starting from the probable birth of a wine culture in ancient Georgia, Oz travels from 6000 BC through the fact and fiction of Persia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, and then along the winding trail right up to the latest innovations in winemaking today. Packed with sparkling wit and charismatic storytelling, Oz shares more than a hundred fascinating tales and woven into these are probably a hundred more. From revered medieval monks to revolutionary discoveries, Oz paints a wonderfully vivid picture of the ever-evolving story of wine.

Oz Clarke’s Story of Wine: The updated and revised book of history for every wine lover

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Clarke, Oz.

Beverages & Wine

Pavilion Books

Suggests itineraries for exploring each wine making region of France, describes the best French wines, and recommends hotels and restaurants

Webster's Wine Tours: France (Flexi-Book)

Johnson, James M.

Prentice Hall Direct

A comprehensive, pocket-sized wine reference provides an alphabetical listing of every type of wine and winemaker, along with up-to-date entries on wine regions, producers, and vintages. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 1999

Harcourt

One of the world's greatest wine writers has given us a completely revised and updated edition of his authoritative and vastly informative bestselling A-Z guide to the world of wine. Bursting with information, the New Encylopedia of Wine includes 1,588 entries covering the world's leading wines, wine regions, wine producers, and grapes, and is sumptuously illustrated with more than 600 color photographs, maps, wine labels, and other illustrations. As easy to use for the beginner as it is informative for the expert, the New Encylopedia is organized alphabetically rather than by region, allowing the wine lover to find any wine, region, producer, or grape with ease. Other sections include introductions to the major wine-producing countries of the world; practical advice on storing and serving wine, including classic wine matches; and a glossary of wine-making techniques and terms-all covered in straightforward, simple language.

Oz Clarke's New Encyclopedia of Wine

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Wine lovers will start the new millennium off right with the handiest and most complete wine guide. The 2000 edition is updated and laced with Oz Clarke's famously witty and opinionated recommendations and warnings about the world's wines. With more than 1,300 entries about every aspect of the wine world, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide details wines, wine regions and wineries, grape varieties and classifications, and wine terms. The easy-to-use A-Z format ensures that you will find whatever you are looking for quickly. His clear and consistent rating system will guide you to the best wine and the best price. In addition, Clarke discusses how wine is made, modern wine styles, picks of the year, and the world of wine, including sections on France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, America, Australia, and New Zealand. Also included is a section on making the most of wine, from airing and decanting to keeping leftovers, as well as vintage charts and an index of main producers. The Pocket Wine Guide has been widely acclaimed as the best in its class, and this new edition is better than ever.

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2000

Revised and updated, with more lists of "bests" and a guide to the Internet, this is the pocket annual that wins "hands down" on "style and ease of use" (Wine Spectator). 
The 2001 edition of Oz Clarke's acclaimed guide is completely updated and laced with his famously witty and opinionated recommendations and warnings about the world's wines. This edition brings even more of Clarke's picks of the best wines in many categories and a look at the new opportunities provided by the Internet. 
Distinguished particularly by its ease of use, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide provides more than 1,600 entries covering every aspect of wine today. Clarke's intuitive A-to-Z format ensures that you will find the wine you are looking for, wherever it comes from. In addition, Clarke discusses how wine is made, modern wine styles, storing wines, vintages, and the world of winemaking from Germany to New Zealand. 
PRAISE FOR OZ CLARKE "Sharp without being sarcastic, witty without being flippant, he communicates well with novice and knowledgeable wine enthusiasts alike." - Wine Enthusiast 
"These lively, informative, well-written books from this multitalented wine writer offer candour and lively prose....The witty Oz Clarke is also a terrific taster." -Robert Parker

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2001

Unlike other wine books, Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine starts off with a guide to choosing the taste of the wine you want. In describing the flavors offered by wine in all its variety, Clarke provides a summation of the varieties and shadings of taste that are available, and then directs you to the grapes, regions, and producers that will give you what you want. Everything flows, so to speak, from taste. Comprehensive in its summation of everything you'll need to know about tasting, serving, and storing wine, Introducing Wine ends with a guided tour of the shelves of a wine shop. Here you'll learn how to find the taste you are looking for in the most practical and useful way. Vividly illustrated throughout, Introducing Wine is an indispensable companion for beginners as well as anyone who wants to brush up on the world of wine. Direct, unpretentious, and easy to consult, Introducing Wine is the best basic primer on the market, from a supremely knowledgeable and engaging writer.

Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine: A Complete Guide for the Modern Wine Drinker

Revised and Updated Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke's now-classic pocket wine guide has been revised and updated for 2004, including much anticipated lists of "World Class Wines That Don't Cost the Earth," "Best Lookalikes to the Classics," and "The 10 Best-Kept Secrets." As accessible as it is complete, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2004 lists each wine, grape, winery, producer, and region alphabetically. It is a perfect pocket reference for novices-and essential for the seasoned wine lover wanting the latest information.

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2004

The latest edition of this indispensable guide, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2003 has been thoroughly updated and offers Clarke's always-anticipated lists such as "World Class Wines that Don't Cost the Earth" and "The 10 Best-Kept Secrets." Perhaps the most notable achievement of any annual guide is that it changes, and Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide is especially remarkable for this. For the 2003 guide, the wines, wineries, producers, and others have been meticulously reexamined and reconsidered. In addition, of course, the guide is notable for its ease of use. Unlike other comprehensive guides, every wine, grape, winery, producer, and region is accessible by name rather than by location. As fresh as the last harvest, as handy as the yellow pages, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2003 retains its position as simply the best comprehensive pocket guide to wine in the world.

Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2003

Fundamental to the understanding of wine is a sense of place. Knowing which country, which region, which vineyard, and even which hillside a wine comes from adds enormously to the pleasure of drinking it. Through its unique cartography--more than seventy-five spectacular, hand-painted panoramic maps--and Oz Clarke's lively and opinionated prose, this revolutionary atlas illustrates and explains the vital connections between the land, the winemaker, and the wine. This edition has been completely revised, updated, and expanded, with a closer look at Napa and Sonoma, and new maps for Chile, Argentina, and elsewhere. No other book maps the world of wine as vividly, and no wine library is complete without Oz Clarke's New Wine Atlas.

Oz Clarke's New Wine Atlas: Wines and Wine Regions of the World

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