Oxford Companion to Wine

This weighty tome, now in its fourth edition, is the definitive guide to all aspects of wine and its culture from grape to glass ... there is plenty to discover whether you want to dip in for a sip of knowledge or prefer a deep glug of wine facts and stats ... More than 150,000 copies sold suggests it is accepted as a key manual for wine lovers.

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Winner of the 2016 James Beard Book Award

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Jancis Robinson

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4th edition. Almost 4,000 A-Z entries on a breath-taking range of topics, from grape varieties and regions, to viticulture, growers and the history of wine. More than 60% of entries have been comprehensively revised, and there are over 350 brand new ones. 'The greatest wine book ever published' "Washington Post"

Zusammenfassung
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. More than 180 esteemed contributors (including 58 new to this edition) range from internationally renowned academics to some of the most famous wine writers and wine specialists in the world. Now exhaustively updated, this fourth edition incorporates the very latest international research to present 300 new entries on topics ranging from additives and wine apps to WSET and Zelen. Over 60 per cent of all entries have been revised; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including a unique list of the world's controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as vineyard area, wine production and consumption by country. Illustrated with almost 30 updated maps of every important wine region in the world, many useful charts and diagrams, and 16 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.

Inhalt

Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of new entries; Maps of the wine regions; Note to the reader; Complete list of entries by subject; Companion to Wine; Appendix 1: Controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties; Appendix 2A: Total vineyard area by country; Appendix 2B: Wine production by country; Appendix 2C: Per capita consumption by country