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Wine Snobbery – book review
A scathing take on the wine industry that reminds us to keep asking questions – about wine, and about everything else. Wine Snobbery An insider’s guide to the booze business...
Henry Jeffreys
Thursday 4 December 2025
• 4 min read
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From France last week, we head to the far western edge of Europe, to Portugal, seen through the eyes of...
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Three books on French wine regions in 2021, including the long-anticipated second edition of Jasper Morris's iconic book on Burgundy...
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Two books look at a tiny corner of the north Adriatic from two very different perspectives.
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Santorini and the southern Italian psyche explored.
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Yiannis Karakasis MW
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Tam looks at four newish books on the subject of food and wine, the first a little different from the...
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South America comes alive in this ground-breaking book by Amanda Barnes.
The South America Wine Guide The definitive guide to...
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The third set of book reviews for 2021 (see England and Abstinence for the first two) are a bit of...
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As it's English Wine Week, it seems a good time for reviews of a couple of books, recently published, on...
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How to Drink Without Drinking Celebratory alcohol-free drinks for any time of the day
Fiona Beckett
Published by Kyle Books...
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Off to the Alps! Reading these books is probably as close as we virused Brits will be allowed to get...
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4 March 2021 We’re delighted that Max Allen has won the André Simon 2020 Drink Award for Intoxicating . Read...
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30 December 2020 Republished free, reviews of Jamie Goode, Tony Aspler, Noble Rot and a classical view of drinking.
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29 December 2020 We're republishing free details of these three excellent new books about the world's biggest fine-wine region.
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28 December 2020 We're republishing these revealing reviews free today. See this guide to all of this season's book reviews...
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26 December 2020 Here is the first of our 2020 book reviews to be republished free. See this guide to...
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