Tag Archives: Wine Book Review

Foot Trodden by Simon J Woolf & Ryan Opaz (Review)

Posted on 08/09/2021 by dccrossley

If I ask you to name one country which is most often completely forgotten for its wines, at least on the UK market, I’d put money on many of you saying Portugal. It’s not as if Portugal doesn’t make a … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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The Wines Of Germany by Anne Krebiehl MW (book review)

Posted on 27/01/2020 by dccrossley

A new book on Germany is a welcome addition to the wine library of any serious wine lover. There isn’t a lot of literature on German wine out there. My previous go-to for a work on the whole country would … Continue reading →

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Godforsaken Grapes (Book Review)

Posted on 02/12/2019 by dccrossley

I’d been aware of Jason Wilson’s Godforsaken Grapes (2018) for some time, but it had never really registered as a book I needed to read until an American friend recommended it in the strongest terms. I think what had put me off, … Continue reading →

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