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The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide 1870–2020 breaks new ground
in wine publishing, being the first volume to cover in depth 150
years of vintages and totally unique in its cultural scope. For
wine lovers and collectors this is the indispensable guide, not
only for finding out what happened in a particular season, but
providing wider historical and social context. Every single year is
accompanied by one event or milestone, one song or musical
composition and one film that encapsulates the spirit of the time
as well as the world into which the vintage was born. Wine writer
Neal Martin offers a personal, witty take on the traditional wine
handbook, with notes on not just the growing seasons, harvests and
wines themselves, but cultural phenomena ranging from Sherlock
Holmes through Casablanca to Beyoncé. Innovative, inspired and
addictively dip-in-able, The Complete Bordeaux Vintage Guide is an
essential addition to your bookshelf as well as your cellar.
From the author of the #1 self defense bestsellers, "Self Defense
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Writing in the immediate aftermath of World War II, wine merchant,
gentleman soldier and cricketer Ian Maxwell Campbell casts an
affectionate and occasionally wistful look back at the Golden Age
of wine, when Bordeaux was affordable, Burgundy's finest vintages
tended towards cannibalism and other wines could be... well,
surprisingly attractive. Among the tales of convivial drinking and
anecdotes involving Winston Churchill and WG Grace, the author
paints a vivid picture of a pre-war (and pre-phylloxera) wine world
whose horizons were about to expand beyond all imagining. Wayward
Tendrils of the Vine, though, is much more than a collection of
reminiscences. As Neal Martin points out in his Introduction: "The
title alone is a perfect allegory for how we learn about wine, how
knowledge grows organically over time, never knowing what the next
bottle will teach us, how it might alter preconceptions or where it
might lead." The Classic Editions breathe new life into some of the
finest wine-related titles written in the English language over the
last 150 years. Although these books are very much products of
their time - a time when the world of fine wine was confined mostly
to the frontiers of France and the Iberian Peninsula and a First
Growth Bordeaux or Grand Cru Burgundy wouldn't be beyond the
average purse - together they recapture a world of convivial,
enthusiastic amateurs and larger-than-life characters whose love of
fine vintages mirrored that of life itself.
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