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2023 book reviews – the guide
The year's most notable books – and there are more to come. Watch this space. It’s been a good year for wine books if this list is any proof. First...
Team JR
Thursday 14 December 2023
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Tam has been hard at work reading wine books on your behalf to pick out those to add to your...
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30 September 2021 On the day the latest Bond film opens in the UK we're republishing this comprehensive survey of...
Max on Oz
The background to Max's hugely original new book about Australian grog. See Tam's enthusiastic review of Intoxicating .
Connections was...
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In between the festive glasses and bottles, check out the latest words published about what's in them. Old books pictured...
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Two recent gongs – great news in both cases but a tad embarrassing.
On Tuesday evening in the Guildhall the...
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9 January 2020 We are republishing this list in order to remind you which books published in 2019 have been...
Nick on restaurants
A revolutionary way of looking at one of our scarcer but healthiest ingredients.
I first met the highly talented but...
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A guide to the books we reviewed in 2018. While a number of wine books published in 2018 were practical...
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Food and drink books of the year were announced in London last night. The André Simon Awards, now in their...
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How you can honour the memory of the best sommelier in the world. 27 March 2019 The Basset family has...
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The wine world lost a towering figure yesterday. See also Support Gerard Basset's memoirs .
16 June 2019 A good...
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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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THE STOCKING FILLER
The 24-Hour Wine Expert £4.99 Penguin or $12.95 Abram...
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Over the past fortnight I have almost lost my interest in food, taste and restaurants. The explanation is simple and...
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14 January 2018 Very many apologies. Like all our guides, this was meant to have been a free article but...
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Tam has been doing the Christmas shift again this year, whittling the many words in the many wine books of...
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