Wine Book Reviews

A book review of, “Rooted in Change”

by  |  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  |  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  |  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  |  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  |  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  |  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  |  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  |  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 »

Académie du Vin acquires the Classic Wine Library

by  |  06-12-2023

In what is quite large news in the wine book world, Académie du Vin Library (AdV) has acquired the collection of the Classic Wine Library (CWL) from publisher, Infinite Ideas. In the regular world, news... more »

A review of “The Oxford Companion to Wine 5th Ed.”

by  |  13-10-2023

Somehow seven years have passed (surely the pandemic had nothing to do with blurring time) and we find ourselves with the newest, and dare I say, “sleekest looking” version of the “Oxford Companion to Wine”... more »