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Book reviews 2015 – Spain and Madeira

Tamlyn Currin
Tamlyn Currin
Wednesday 30 December 2015
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For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2015, see this guide.

Vinologue Priorat 
Second edition 
Miquel Hudin
Vinologue
£17, €23, $25 

Miquel Hudin, a Californian transplanted in Barcelona, is no stranger to Purple Pages, having sent us several reports on Spain. He does various things vinous, just one of which is the Vinologue series of enotourism travel guides. He has published eight so far, and this is the second edition of the Priorat guide, published just two years after the first edition – a sign perhaps of a rapidly evolving region?

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