Oz Clarke S Pocket Wine Guide 2001

The 2001 edition of Oz Clarke's acclaimed guide is completely updated and laced with his famously witty and opinionated recommendations and warnings about the world's wines. This edition brings even more of Clarke's picks of the best wines in many categories and a look at the new opportunities provided by the Internet. Distinguished particularly by its ease of use, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide provides more than 1,600 entries covering every aspect of wine today. Clarke's intuitive A-to-Z format ensures that you will find the wine you are looking for, wherever it comes from. In addition, Clarke discusses how wine is made, modern wine styles, storing wines, vintages, and the world of winemaking from Germany to New Zealand.

OZ CLARKE'S POCKET WINE BOOK has been completely revised and updated once again and this edition for 2001 features more than 1,600 main entries, including a new series of personal lists (such as Best Kept Secrets and Producers to Watch) and an expanded glossary of wine terms. There are in-depth wine profiles of classic wine and grape varieties, all the vintage information you need, recommended producers, clear symbols, helpful cross-referencing and extensive world-wide coverage. Information that is of interest to the expert is presented here in an alphabetical form accessible to the novice. All this in a handy pocket-sized volume means that wherever you are - restaurant, wine bar, club, wine merchant's or supermarket, at home or on holiday - you can have Oz Clarke's unrivalled expertise at your fingertips.

Oz Clarke’s now-classic pocket wine guide has been thoroughly and meticulously revised and updated for 2008, with much-anticipated lists of favorite wines, top values, producers and regions to watch, new vintage reports, and a country-by-country index.

Over 1,600 entries on wines, producers, grapes, and wine regions from around the world.

Amateur and connoisseur alike can be overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite variety of wine today-unless they have Oz Clarke in their pocket. The clearest, most complete, most affordable, and most enjoyable pocket guide to every wine in the world, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide instantly creates order out of chaos, in the restaurant or the wine shop, and does do with an irrestible enthusiasm.