2008 wine books Part 1

I can't tell you how glad I am that I have this website – for all sorts of reasons. One of them is that wine books, which are one of my other principal outlets (see here), seem to have lost a great deal of enthusiasm on the part of publishers, booksellers and reviewers. I haven't even spotted a round-up of drinks books in the mainstream UK press this year, whereas this used to be de rigueur alongside the food book round-up.

I have been asked to suggest books suitable for the more casual wine drinker, ie not detailed analyses...