2012 wine books – South America

By Paul O'Doherty. See our guide to 2012 wine book reviews.

Vintage Moquegua
History, Wine and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
Prudence M Rice
University of Texas Press
£18/$30

Charting the remarkable story of Peru’s wineries, Rice, distinguished professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has come up with one of those books that, despite arriving under the radar, is a fascinating read and deserves to be enjoyed at the top table. One of the less well-known centres of viticulture, the tiny Moquegua Valley in deep southern Peru in the western mountains, 1,000 kilometres south of Lima...