Customer Reviews

Excellent buying guide - By: M. Summerfield, 08 Sep 2008
An excellent guide for buying 'reasonable' to 'ultra-premium' wine. Thousands of wines are coveredin short informative paragraphs along with ratings & vintage guides.

It's less detailed than "Wine Behind the Label" but at pocket size is totally portable. This is a thoroughly practical book & is genuinely helpfulin making wine buying decisions, (mine has been everywhere from the supermarket to the caves of Burgundy). Hugh Johnson manages to combine a careers-worth of expert knowledge with a down-to-earth, sensible & non-stuffy approach.

If you already have the 2008 guide & were going to skip this one (like I was), there are multiple changes & updates to the individual entries, as well as rewritten country introductions. (And yes, last year's gremlins have fled the publisher & they've sorted out the mishaps before sending it to print).
It's also (to me) easier to read with maroon & black type, rather than last years gold & black, & the maps are recoloured & clearer.

It's only a tenner, the price of a bottle of wine, & it might help you to get more bouquet for your buck!