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Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Monday 28 December 2020

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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.

30 October 2020 Tales from three very different wine writers.

The Story of Wine
From Noah to now
Hugh Johnson
Académie du Vin Library
ISBN 9781913141066
£30

In the mid eighties, Hugh Johnson managed to persuade producer Michael Gill and Channel 4 to let him make a TV series on the history of wine from its birth to the (then) current craze of Beaujolais Nouveau. He employed a young Cambridge history graduate to assist him with the research and...

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