Wine Book Reviews
A book review of, “Rhône Valley: Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide”
by Miquel Hudin | 18-12-2025
I’ve been travelling through the vastness of the Rhône Valley in France for over a decade now and thus I was quite interested to see how Matt Walls would cover it via his new book,... more »
A book review of, “Switzerland: Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide”
by Miquel Hudin | 12-12-2025
I haven’t any solid idea how many books there are on Swiss wine. It seems like maybe two in English with one from 1994. Regardless, even if there were a baker’s dozen, I’m very much... more »
A book review of, “Rooted in Change”
by Miquel Hudin | 25-11-2025
In this new book, Jane Masters and Andrew Neather decided to bite off a big topic and write about about the sustainability of wine in terms of what the issues are, what can be done... more »
A book review of, “Madeira: The islands and their wines”
by Miquel Hudin | 14-07-2025
I knew the Madeira would be pretty, but I wasn’t prepared as to just how much which I visited earlier this year. Every corner of my eye was on to something new and staggering which... more »
A book review of, “Mallorca & Wine”
by Miquel Hudin | 21-05-2025
About two years ago, a colleague of mine tried roping me into writing a book on the wines of Mallorca. I was all for it as Mallorca is gorgeous and there are some really interesting... more »
A book review of, “Wine Confident”
by Miquel Hudin | 18-02-2025
Wine, is complicated. It’s for this that every time I turn around, there seems to be another book that claims to make it easy or is for “dummies” or is an illustrated children’s book for... more »
A book review of, “Corker”
by Miquel Hudin | 09-10-2024
There is something mindblowing in Hannah Crosbie’s book, “Corker” in that she’s done the unthinkable. Crosbie, has made wine… fun. The concept of the book and why it’s so much fun is that Crosbie has... more »
A book review of, the “Slow Wine Guide USA 2024”
by Miquel Hudin | 22-04-2024
And so arrives the newest release of the Slow Wine Guide USA 2024. For those unfamiliar with the whole “Slow” brand, to rewind a bit, Slow Food was founded in 1986 by Carlo Petrini to... more »
A book review of, “Greek Wine Explained”
by Miquel Hudin | 11-03-2024
Various wine personalities will often tell you that one region or another is “underrated” or that they don’t understand why people don’t like it more? There’s a great deal of debate on this front, but... more »
A book review of, “Message in the Bottle”
by Miquel Hudin | 07-02-2024
If you’re someone studying how to blind taste of wine, or just happen to be casually fixated on the subject (surely there must be a few?) then it’s never been a better time to be... more »