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Oz Clarke 250 Best Wines: Wine Buying Guide 2008 Oz Clarke, Britain’s most popular wine writer, is absolutely in tune with what wine drinkers want today - flavour, individuality, excellent value for money and wines that are readily available. Oz has tasted thousands of wines and selected his “250 Best Wines for 2008″. This new edition of Oz Clarke’s phenomenally successful annual “Wine Buying Guide” also covers: storing, serving and tasting; a guide to wine flavours; wine finder by country; buying for the long term; and a directory of the UK’s top retailers, from fine wine merchants to high street chains. “Oz Clarke: 250 Best Wines” is the must-have shopping guide to make wine buying hassle-free. Oz’s independent, enthusiastic and reliable recommendations will help you find the wines you want at the prices you want to pay. Oz Clarke’s top 250 wines for 2008, described in Oz’s well-known, chatty style. Includes directory of 130 best places to buy wine in the UK.
Customer Review: Poorly designed, but some good finds
This is not a bad guide, but nothing amazing. It is a little let down by a poor layout design, which makes it quite hard to read - it is disappointing that a book like this couldn’t include more labels and images. Also, it is unexpected that there is no full colour printing!

There a few good finds in the book - the best thing is that it is quite easy to find majority of the wines in particular supermarkets and the average cost of the wines are definitely cheap. At a guess I would say about over half would be around the ?4-7 mark. There aren’t many ‘fine wines’ in the book, but it is definitely good for a few supermarket bargains.
Customer Review: Oz’s is the best of the bunch
If you need a book to help you buy wine, Oz’s can be relied on to see you through. Not surprisingly, the text is as Oz speaks: rather breathless, somewhat purple and hyperbolic, with occasionally quite ludicrous attempts to match the taste of a wine with some other substance. For example, how much do you learn about the taste of a drink from “but like the hum of an electric cable, the taut mineral flavour of quartz dust never lets the fruit and honey out of its sight.”? If I had James May’s ‘wine bollocks’ Acme Thunderer whistle to hand as I read that, I’d give a loud “that’s a penalty!” blast.

As another reviwer has noted, the layout of Oz’s wine guides is poor. It used to be very much worse, so be thankful for small mercies. Plentiful use of a highlighter and post-it note markers helps navigate the confusion of categories and the illogical layout.

Better still, DIY. I’ve given up buying wine guides.

If you have a PDA, phone or other handheld that you always carry around & will do spreadsheets or text, save yourself the cost of a book and make up your own guide. Just rate the the stuff that you actually buy from the shelves of the shops you go to regularly or wine you get a taste of from someone else’s bottle. Score XX/20 plus a brief note, along with the i.d. from the label. Then dig your gizmo out as you stand in front of all those bottles … this way I have discovered loads of wines that I now buy over and over again that have never featured in any guide. They can’t taste them all, can they?

The merit of this DIY system is that if you buy a B0G0F, 2fer or, particularly, one on offer that is usually priced more than you like to spend, you can note it [if it's any good] and build up a data base that will provide you with a list of wines that you like that are, from time to time, worth buying in quanity and/or temporarily in your price range. A great eg of this is Nero d’Avola Sicilian red from Tesco. This is usually ?8. Priced at ?3.99 I was happy to give it a go. It was terrific. Well, I’ve just discovered that at full price it’s an IWC Silver Medallist: at half price, it’s a steal.

So now it’s in my d/b as one to buy when they run another offer on it, which they will. A book will not give you this info. Worse, they often feature a wine - or even a whole range of wines - that never actually make it onto the stock list of the supermaket. One of Oz Clarke’s Supermarket Superheroes suffered this fate at Morrisons. His purple prose was wasted on a range of wines that didn’t exist! The replacements were plonk.

So, go with Oz if you are a complete starter or lack confidence, then build up your own list. By next year, you’ll be your own Oz and maybe indulging in a bit of ‘wine bollocks’ of your own!

Fancy a nice glass of “road tar under a Tuscan sun” anyone?

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The Alaskan Bootlegger’s Bible Customer Review: The Alaskan Bootlegger’s Bible
Great fun,informative and inspiring, I haven’t finished it yet and I can’t wait to get brewing! Leon sounds like the kinda guy you just want to be mates with, love the pore-boy stuff, great way of hashing together the basic stuff for brewing and bottling, of course none of us would dare to hazard the making of a still!! Overall a great read laced with good humour
Customer Review: Alaskan Bootlegger’s Bible
Mr. Kania has an exhausting knowledge of brewing techniques. This knowledge is surpassed only by his sense of humor. This work is not only a valuable reference tool, but it’s a good read as well!

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The Best Wine Bars and Shops of Paris: Fifty Charming and Notable Cavistes

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The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization Customer Review: As enjoyable as a bottle of Solaia
Hard to imagine, but this book about the current state of the world of wine blends the thrill of an expose with the wisdom imparted by a primer, while written with the verve of Tom Wolfe. I learned more about the good stuff, about wine snobbery and - most important of all - about how to enjoy wine ‘without the tears’ than I ever expected. Not bad for something that costs less than a decent bottle of Cannonau.

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The Wine Bible Customer Review: The Holy Grail
When it comes to wine, this book really IS my Bible! All in all, the most well-rounded and informative book on the subject I’ve ever looked at. It does of course feature an extensive info and review section for a large variety of wines, but that is not it’s strongest point… What really make this book the. Excellent for beginners as well as experts as it packed full of advise on tasting and making the most out of whatever you’re drinking. It can be said, without fear of contradiction, that this author knows her stuff!

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Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World Customer Review: Not just for wine lovers - a true scientific whodunit
Phylloxera are tiny insects, native to the USA, which attack vines. They are almost invisible to the naked eye. While one variety of phylloxera attacks vine leaves, it is the second variety which poses a far more destructive threat. It attacks the roots. It can take up to ten years before the vine is actually killed.

In the 1860s, wine was rapidly growing in popularity; vineyards were being established on a worldwide scale, with Australia and the US beginning to break into the international market. For the first time, vines were being transported across the oceans in significant numbers as breeders tried to improve the various strains.

And in 1863, the small yellow louse known as phylloxera hitched a lift and invaded France, the country which saw itself as the home of wine. The French wine industry was almost destroyed. Frantic efforts were launched to find a solution. Finally, it was realised that native American rootstocks were resistant to assault, and that it was possible to graft European vines to them.

Problem solved? Not quite. Phylloxera are resilient little pests … and they are still at work. They’re now attacking vineyards in California, South America, and New Zealand. Replanting is expensive - and it can take ten years for a vine to produce quality grapes and become economically viable.

Christy Campbell tells the story with artistry and humour. In the end, it’s not just a tale of wine, it’s not just a piece of history. This is one of the earliest warnings of how vulnerable human society can be to even the tiniest of insects. In an era of globalisation, we may yet be opening ourselves up to global attack by new strains of insect or bacteria.

Fascinating, highly readable book which should appeal to the wine lover, the historian, or anyone who likes a good mystery … or a well written analysis.

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Icon: Art of the Wine Label Customer Review: ICON , Art of the Wine Label
Though wrought of human hands, an icon can be as sacred as the subject it portrays. Richly framed, aglow in the light of candles and wreathed in clouds of incense, it becomes a potal linking the mortal with the divine. Readers of “ICON, ART OF THE WINE LABEL” may feel a similar sense of passage as they browse through this magnificant tome by Jeffrey Caldewey and Chuck House. Aknowledged as the “American Maestros” of wine label design they have shared their personal insights of what creates an effective and great wine label. The visually stunning photographs by Robert S. Bruno elevate the selected bottles to works of art appropriate for adoration. Foreward by Robert Mondavi and the history of wine lables by Hugh Johnson confirm the importance of this book for all those who wish to collect, design, or just oogle wine labels.

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One Hundred and One Beautiful Towns in France: Food and Wine (101 Beautiful Towns): Food and Wine (101 Beautiful Towns)