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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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Three novels land on Tam’s desk, but it’s the French one that makes it onto her bookshelf. See this guide...
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Curating a modern wine library the old-fashioned way.
Much of our wine reading today is based on clicks and flicks...
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Godforsaken Grapes A slightly tipsy journey through the world of strange, obscure and underappreciated wine
Jason Wilson
Published by Abrams...
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The Wines of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova Caroline Gilby MW Published by Infinite Ideas ISBN 9781906821876 £30 It’s relatively easy...
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The Wines of New Zealand Rebecca Gibb MW Published by Infinite Ideas ISBN 9781906821821 £30 Of course it’s going to...
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Côte d’Or The wines and winemakers of the heart of Burgundy
Raymond Blake
Published by Infinite Ideas
ISBN 9781908987937
£30...
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The Wines of Greece Konstantinos Lazarakis MW Infinite Ideas ISBN 97819089847222 £30 In order to write about one of the...
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Tasting the Past The science of flavor and the search for the origins of wine
Kevin Begos
Published by Algonquin...
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Australian Wine Styles and tastes, people and places
Patrick Iland, Peter Gago, Andrew Caillard, Peter Dry
Published by Patrick Iland...
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Red and White An unquenchable thirst for wine Published by Little, Brown Book Group ISBN 9781408710166 Digital version available £15...
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A Celebration of English Wine
Liz Sagues
Published by Robert Hale (The Crowood Press)
ISBN 9780719826146
£17
Apart from Stephen...
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The Wandering Vine Wine, the Romans and me
Nina Caplan
Published by Bloomsbury
ISBN 9781472938442
Also available in digital format...
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What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking In praise of the sublime
Terry Theise
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 9781328762214...
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Flawless Understanding faults in wine
Jamie Goode
Published by University of California Press
ISBN 9780520276901
$25, £20
This book has...
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Wines of the Languedoc
Rosemary George MW
Published by Infinite Ideas
ISBN 9781908984869
£30
Rosemary George's first trip to the...
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8 November 2018 Today's Throwback Thursday offering is the first of Tam's end-of-year book reviews, first published on Purple Pages...
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