Title: Vintage Wine
Author: Michael Broadbent
ISBN: 0316859648
Publisher: Little, Brown
Price: £30 (buy at Amazon -20%)
Subtitled “50 Years of Tasting the World’s Finest Wines”, this new book immediately soars to the top of my wine-lover’s Chrsitmas present list. The irrepressible Michael Broadbent shows no sign of slowing down merely because he is in his 76th year: he is still a Director of Christie’s wine auctions, still travels incessantly around the world to taste the finest wines, and still communtes across London by bicycle. This book is a wonderful guide to 50-years worth of fine wine, region by region, wine by wine, but it is also warm and human, with a delightful anecdotes and wine wisdom sprinkled throughout.
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Any wine is a product of fermented juice of various fruits and fruit. Wines are classified in many ways affecting both the physical properties of wine, and with the qualitative characteristics.