The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition
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Book Reviews of The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition
Book Review: Incredible amount of information
Summary: 5 Stars
Having a healthy interest in wine (don't drink too much most of the time) this answers so many of the questions that I've had over the years. It gives many of the expected details of different wine regions and wine classifications throughout the world in great detail. It also gives information on the winemaking process, the different varieties, how to consume wine (storage, tasting), qualities and faults in wine, famous personalities/labels in wine and wine history. All this with some beautiful fullpage photographs, maps and diagrams. Makes a great present and should be a mandatory accessory for anyone with a substantial wine collection.Book Review: A Most Incredible Wine Reference Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is truly incredible and can best be described as an encyclopedia of wine. Printed on 816 pages of fine paper with sporadic full color photographs and pencil drawings, it is atypical of other books on wine. There no novice section, stemware identification guide or chapter on building your own cellar. This is the book you want in you hands to aid in locating those rare areas of production and defining little known terms. Robinson draws on approximately 150 contributors, highly qualified experts in their respective fields, to author select entries.
Joseph Broski (Dionysian Society International)
Book Review: International wines
Summary: 4 Stars
Wine is a very good enciklopedi review of international wines. It comprises regions, wines, history, marketing data and so on. Useful data on wine production and testing are included. It is quite easy to find the object you are interested in. There are useful maps of wine regions across the world.
I would like quite frequently to find more quantitative data including tables and graphs, comparisons. But especially I missed the data about the amount of alcohol, amount of acids, minerals and aromates quantitatively.
I am enyoing vhen reading this book inspite that I am wine lover, not professional.
Book Review: Indispensable!
Summary: 5 Stars
No wine lovers' library is complete without the Oxford Companion to Wine. This is THE reference book for everything wine, quite literally from A to Z. Whether you are a wine novice looking to know more about a particular grape variety or wine region or an expert searching for information on vinification or the history of cork, you will find it -- quickly and easily -- in this book. Given that the book resembles and is organized like an encyclopedia, the annotations for each subject are written in a compelling manner. This is not a coffee table book. This is a book you will use again and again.Book Review: LOTS of breadth!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my second wine book, the first being Karen McNeil's Wine Bible. I think both complement each other very nicely. In a nutshell, for a book that covers everything about everything on wine, Robinson's book is it! It is wonderfully organized and is a true encyclopedia. While it has more limited depth on some subjects, it certainly wins in the breadth of topics covered. McNeil's Wine Bible, on the other hand, is less of an encyclopedia while still being a reference. It does not cover nearly as much breadth at all, but what it does cover goes into greater depth.