New wine guides to the Jura, the Loire and Rioja

Tamlyn Currin

Thursday 27 March 2025 • 1 min read

Book covers for Fintan Kerr's Rioja guide, Wine Lorch's new Jura Wine and Beverley Blanning MW's Wines of the Loire

Two essential guides to overlooked wine regions – the Jura and the Loire – and a third on Rioja, the first of a new series of wine travel guides.

Jura Wine 10 Years On - Wink Lorch book cover

Jura Wine Ten Years On
The evolution of a remarkable wine region
Wink Lorch
Published by Académie du Vin Library
ISBN 9780992833169
£15

Few of us talk of the mountain wines of eastern France without the name Wink Lorch popping up. She’s championed Savoie, Bugey and the Jura for more than 30 years. She’s the expert behind the Oxford Companion to Wine entries for the regions and the author of...

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