Tasting PleasureAcknowledgments
A Tale of Two Wine Producers
Liquid Magic - Birth of a Wine Lover
Becoming a Wine Writer
Early Days - Wine-Sodden Nights
The Old Wine Trade
Blind Tasting
First Steps Abroad
The Thirsty Tour Operator
My Very Own Imprint
Casting Adrift
A New World of Wine
Lurching Toward Respectability
Wine on the Box
Marathon Tastings, and a 1787
Mastering Wine
Distractions
The Wine Revolution, and My Cellar
A Stake in the Motherland
Discovering France's Stomach
Some Very Special Bottles
The Ball and Chain Cast Off
Half Centuries
On Writing About Wine
Vin Fin
Index
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. Shecurrently spends the majority of her time writing for her website www.jancisrobinson.com, which has subscribers from over 70 countries. Among her nine wine books are the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine (editor) and Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, the basis of a five-hour PBS-TV series. She lives in London.
"She writes about wine and the people who make it in a style both
personable and reporterly; she refuses to take herself too
seriously; and she is something of a gossip." --Coleman Andrews,
Saveur
"worth buying just for the sections on the secret world of the
Gallo dynasty and Robert Parker" -- Richard Neill, Daily
Telegraph
"Robinson is a jaunty writer who imparts her expertise with ease.
Here she tours the vineyards of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Australia and California (where, with a touch of show-biz pizzazz,
she visits Francis Ford Coppola's Napa Valley wine estate), and
along the way explains the qualities that distinguish the finest
wines, introduces winemakers and gossips about major figures in the
trade." -- Publishers Weekly
The editor and author of almost a dozen British books on wine, including The Oxford Companion to Wine (LJ 12/94), Robinson knows the wine world inside and out. Here she shares her love for and knowledge of wine via a collection of autobiographical anecdotes and sketches covering everything from the time spent early in her career writing for Wine and Spirit magazine to her adventures taping the Wine Course for the BBC. Dedicated wine enthusiasts and collectors will drink up Robinson's stories of meetings with the luminaries of the wine world and her visits to the vineyards of countries as varied as France and Australia. However, the average American reader might be overwhelmed by the emphasis on the British wine trade. Libraries with comprehensive wine book collections or public libraries catering to a gourmet clientele will want to consider.‘John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., Ariz.
"She writes about wine and the people who make it in a style both
personable and reporterly; she refuses to take herself too
seriously; and she is something of a gossip." --Coleman Andrews,
Saveur
"worth buying just for the sections on the secret world of the
Gallo dynasty and Robert Parker" -- Richard Neill, Daily
Telegraph
"Robinson is a jaunty writer who imparts her expertise with ease.
Here she tours the vineyards of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Australia and California (where, with a touch of show-biz pizzazz,
she visits Francis Ford Coppola's Napa Valley wine estate), and
along the way explains the qualities that distinguish the finest
wines, introduces winemakers and gossips about major figures in the
trade." -- Publishers Weekly
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