Yesterday in 2008 wine books Part 1 we recommended some books out this year that try to introduce newcomers to wine, but what about new reading material for those of us who are already committed wine nuts?
I think my top 2008 recommendation as a reference book would be Clive Coates’ The Wines of Burgundy, published by the University of California Press, which has recently become the most energetic wine book publisher I know. This is a hefty volume which is in effect a fully revised version of his Côte d’Or published a decade ago so there is a...
