Maps
Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of new entries
Complete list of entries by subject
Note to the reader
Alphabetical entries
Complete list of controlled appellations and their permitted grape
varieties
Vineyard area, wine production, and per capita wine consumption by
country
Picture credits
EDITOR
Jancis Robinson, OBE and Master of Wine is one of the world's
leading authorities on wine, voted the Wine Writers' Writer by her
peers in The Observer. The first person outside the wine trade to
have passed the notoriously tough Master of Wine exams, she is now
the wine columnist for the Financial Times and writes a regular
column for publications in ten countries on five continents. She is
known to millions as a television presenter on wine and food, and
wrote and presented
the award-winning 10-part Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, shown
around the world in the late 1990s.
She currently spends the majority of her time writing for her
website www.jancisrobinson.com, which has subscribers from over 70
countries.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Julia Harding, Master of Wine, studied modern languages at
Cambridge before becoming a freelance book editor. She took the
Wine and Spirit Education Trust intermediate and advanced
certificates and diploma in the late 1990s before going on to work
in the Wine Buying department at British wine retailer Waitrose in
2001. Julia qualified as a Master of Wine in 2004, winning the
Robert Mondavi award for best theory papers and the Tim Derouet
Memorial Prize for excellence in all parts of the exam
and dissertation. Now Jancis Robinson's full-time assistant, she
was responsible for all entries on oenology and viticulture in this
third edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine, and co-ordinated
and
copy-edited the new and revised text.
...the most useful book on wine ever written; it is also one of the most enjoyable. Kathleen Burk, The Week Those readers interested enough in the subject to buy the first edition are pretty much compelled to buy all subsequent ones, for the knowledge encompassed in them changes not only rapidly, but also radically. Paul Levy, Times Literary Supplement No wine-lover's bookshelves should be without Jonathan Ray, Daily Telegraph The essential reference book David Baker, Financial Times Wine anoraks will want Jancis Robinson's revised, encyclopaedic The Oxford Companion to Wine. The Times, Impressive Scholarship The Times Essential reference guide Daily Express
...the most useful book on wine ever written; it is also one of the most enjoyable. Kathleen Burk, The Week Those readers interested enough in the subject to buy the first edition are pretty much compelled to buy all subsequent ones, for the knowledge encompassed in them changes not only rapidly, but also radically. Paul Levy, Times Literary Supplement No wine-lover's bookshelves should be without Jonathan Ray, Daily Telegraph The essential reference book David Baker, Financial Times Wine anoraks will want Jancis Robinson's revised, encyclopaedic The Oxford Companion to Wine. The Times, Impressive Scholarship The Times Essential reference guide Daily Express
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