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Book reviews 2015 – wine wars and word craft

Tamlyn Currin
Tamlyn Currin
Thursday 21 January 2016
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21 January 2016 Tam's book reviews were so good that we wanted to share more of them with everyone. Hence this republication as part of our Throwback Thursday series. 

31 December 2015 For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2015, see this guide. 

Tangled Vines 
Frances Dinkelspiel 
Greed, murder, obsession, and an arsonist in the vineyards of California 
St Martin's Press 
£18.20, $26.99 

$250 million worth of wine goes up in flames, along with livelihoods, histories, futures, legacies and businesses. Even the most hardened teetotaller would wince. Any wine lover, reading the roll call...

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