Wine books 2009 – part 1

Paul O'Doherty is a journalist living in Dublin. He has a books programme, Bookbound, that goes out on Dublin City FM every Monday night and his first book, An Irishman's Diet, based on his spoof Irish Times column, was published last year.

This is the first part of his reviews of this year's crop of wine books. They are, I should stress, his own personal views, not all of which I endorse. But since I know so many wine authors personally, I decided to take advantage of this series of independent viewpoints. I have tried to divide his brief...