From Reed "The opening pieces, profiling diverse vineyards, modest, tradition-steeped wineries in Northern Italy and Burgundy, grand estates in Bordeaux and modernized operations in California's Napa Valley contrast the "regional chauvinism that typifies many of the viticultural backwaters of France" and the high-tech West Coast approach to environmental control.

Anatomy of the Wine Trade : Abe's Sardines and Other Stories

Business & Money

Simon Loftus

Economics

SIDGWICK JACKSON

This vivid, entertaining and provocative book is an insider's account of everyday life in the wine trade. Simon Loftus analyses the challenges that face the trade and portrays a varied gallery of characters (rogues and heroes) going about their business. Growers and brokers, merchants, auctioneers and journalists prove even more interesting than the wines that they make and sell. Simon Loftus writes with the enthusiasm of someone who discovered wine at the age of seven. A director of Adnams. the Suffolk brewers, he has during the past fifteen years transformed that company's wine department into one of the most interesting and adventurous wine merchants in the country. Edited by the highly acclaimed wine journalist, Jancis Robinson, and illustrated by photographs taken by the author himself, Anatomy of the Wine Trade forms part of a lively new series of wine books published by Sidgwick & Jackson.

Anatomy of the Wine Trade: Abe's Sardines and Other Stories

Jancis. Robinson

Pan/Macmillan

The Invention of Memory

Daunt Books

The sleepy village of Puligny-Montrachet produces the greatest white wines in Burgundy, famous throughout the world, but the place itself is unknown to outsiders. The lives of its inhabitants are shaped by the rhythms of the agricultural year, punctuated by the intense activity of the harvest, when the noise of tractors echoes down the narrow streets as the grapes are carried to the cellars. 
This vivid and evocative journal of everyday life in rural France takes us through the cycle of the seasons, from the bonfires of the winter prunings to the celebrations of the feast of St Vincent. We meet the butcher, the baker, the mayor and, of course, the vignerons, from small growers cultivating a few rows of wines to the owners of the best Domaines. 
Combining a history of the village with a detailed study of the vines, this is a fascinating snapshot of a way of life that is disappearing. 
The first serious account of a single wine-making village...A unique volume. Independent

Puligny-Montrachet : Journal of a Village in Burgundy

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

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