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Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Tuesday 7 December 2021

wine writing France Burgundy Rhône Roussillon

Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris book cover

Three books on French wine regions in 2021, including the long-anticipated second edition of Jasper Morris's iconic book on Burgundy, and essential books on each of Roussillon and the Rhône.

Inside Burgundy
The second edition
Jasper Morris MW
Published by Berry Bros & Rudd Press
ISBN 9780951063248
£65

Paul O’Doherty reviewed Inside Burgundy, the first edition, in 2010, calling it ‘a well-written, encyclopaedic investment’. Jancis listed it as one of her favourite wine books of 2010, and it immediately won the André Simon Drink Book of the Year award. In 2013, Berry Bros & Rudd republished it in...

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