Wine books 2009 – part 3

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 third part of his reviews of this year's crop of wine books. The fourth and final part to be published tomorrow concentrates on books with a vaguely historical theme written by Americans, of which there is a particularly bountiful crop this year. They are, I should stress, his own personal views, not all of...