Category Archives: Wine Books

Adventures on the Wine Route (Kermit Lynch) – Still Relevant Today

Posted on 20/04/2021 by dccrossley

It’s now over a year since I last left the UK, and almost eighteen months since I stood in a vineyard. The craving for wine travel, within the context of realising how very lucky I am, of course, grows every … Continue reading →

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Wines of the Rhône by Matt Walls – Book Review

Posted on 16/03/2021 by dccrossley

Even most readers who know me reasonably well might be unaware that The Rhône was my first real passion in wine. I didn’t get to visit the north for a few years, but by the time I hit Ampuis in … Continue reading →

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Wine and Cheese Anyone? Reviewing Oz Clarke’s English Wine with Ned Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles

Posted on 22/02/2021 by dccrossley

This week you get two book reviews in one article and, I think for the first time, one of them isn’t about wine. Tempted as I’ve been in the past to review books on my other passion, music, I have … Continue reading →

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Raisin – 100 Grands Vins Naturels d’Émotion (Review)

Posted on 08/02/2021 by dccrossley

Many readers who are deeply interested in natural wine will have the Raisin App on their phones. It is a forum for recommending natural wines to other enthusiasts, but it is perhaps more importantly indispensable, through its interactive maps, for … Continue reading →

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Noble Rot Book – Wine From Another Galaxy (Review)

Posted on 19/01/2021 by dccrossley

“The Rotters’ Club” (by Jonathan Coe) used to be one of my favourite novels, for the simple reason that its plot line resonated so perfectly with parts of my own early teenage years. It has very little to do with … Continue reading →

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Review of the Year 2020

Posted on 17/12/2020 by dccrossley

Well indeed, what a year 2020 has been! Like no other, for sure. But although everyone involved in the world of wine has experienced life in different ways, wine is still there, and has given us all immense pleasure, a … Continue reading →

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The Goode Wine Guide (Review)

Posted on 27/11/2020 by dccrossley

I’m hoping I’m not too late here to recommend a great little stocking filler for the wine obsessive in your life. This came out in September but my Lockdown reading pile has grown somewhat tall, and I’ve only just read … Continue reading →

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Skelton’s “The Wines of Great Britain” and some thoughts on English Wine

Posted on 29/05/2020 by dccrossley

This article began its gestation as a book review. I recently read another edition from the Infinite Ideas Classic Wine Library, of which I have reviewed two further books in just this past year (on Sake and Japanese Wines by … Continue reading →

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That Georgia’s on my Mind – For The Love of Wine (Book Review)

Posted on 28/04/2020 by dccrossley

I can’t recall how many years ago it was, but I do recall trudging around several of the Marks & Spencer’s stores in Central London trying to find a particular bottle of wine. Now M&S, as this chain is known … Continue reading →

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Luis Gutiérrez “The New Vignerons” (Book Review)

Posted on 01/04/2020 by dccrossley

When Luis Gutiérrez’s book The New Vignerons was published back in 2017 I sat up and took note, but although I can stretch to struggling through wine books in French, I know my Spanish would not have got me past the first … Continue reading →

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