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Wine guides – book reviews

Monday 16 December 2024 • 1 min read
A pile of wine guides

Wine guides can make great gifts, and here they are in four flavours, from a classic pocketbook to the deeply irreverent Corker, smart Wine Confident and sticker-filled Rebel School of Wine.

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Wine Confident
There’s no wrong way to enjoy wine
Kelli A White

Published by Académie du Vin Library
ISBN 9781917084499
£25, $35

When people write about Kelli White, they always mention that she’s a celebrated sommelier, an author, an awarded writer and the director of education for the Wine Center at Meadowood, Napa Valley. But did you know that she studied neuroscience at university? And played in a...

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