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Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable. Now exhaustively updated, this third edition of the world's most respected reference book on wine incorporates the very latest international research to present almost 400 new entries on topics ranging from globalisation and the politics of wine to brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation. Illustrated with maps of every important wine region in the world, charts and diagrams and stunning colour photographs, this Companion is a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.

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...the most useful book on wine ever written; it is also one of the most enjoyable. Kathleen Burk, The Week Those readers interested enough in the subject to buy the first edition are pretty much compelled to buy all subsequent ones, for the knowledge encompassed in them changes not only rapidly, but also radically. Paul Levy, Times Literary Supplement No wine-lover's bookshelves should be without Jonathan Ray, Daily Telegraph The essential reference book David Baker, Financial Times Wine anoraks will want Jancis Robinson's revised, encyclopaedic The Oxford Companion to Wine. The Times, Impressive Scholarship The Times Essential reference guide Daily Express

`Review from previous edition a required reference for anyone who is serious about wine' The New York Times `The greatest wine book ever published' The Washington Post `Jancis Robinson's brilliant and exhaustive tome on everything you ever wanted to know about the universe of wine' from Sideways, the novel on which the award-winning screenplay was based `It is hard to believe that Jancis Robinson could improve upon a work whose first edition was so universally lauded, but indeed she has...The new edition is a huge compendium that covers practically everything you'd ever want to know about viticulture and winemaking...The Oxford Companion to Wine is still the preeminent basic resource for wine lovers.' Wine Enthusiast Magazine `This A-Z guide covers all aspects of wine, from vine density to bottling...Robert Parker, publisher of The Wine Advocate, calls this the most encylopedic book available.' Brill's Content `I can think of few better companions on a hazy Christmas afternoon' Giles Kime, Sunday Telegraph `I would like to be given Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine...it's one of those books you can keep going back to' Sunday Express Magazine `The wine world's most scholarly A to Z' The Sunday Times, Joanna Simon, 5.12.99 `the most impressive wine book ever published ... all wine enthusiasts would love to have a copy.' The Sunday Tribune (Dublin) `a rich, enthusiastic celebration ... of the ancient people-centred arts of viticulture.' Valentine Cunningham, The Observer `Most ambitious, most respected writing project ever...this is a massive overhaul. There are about 500 new entries, while more than half of the previous 3000 have been rewritten to varying degrees by Robinson and her team of contributors ... with the same diligent approach she adopted to the first edition, she either wrote or oversaw every word.' Mary Dowey, The Irish Times (Dublin), 23.10.99 `Always authoritative, she has revised about half of the 5000 entries to keep pace with the rapidly evolving wine world.' Diana Gregory, The Independent, 9.10.99 `The words magisterial , magnificent , and indispensable , used more than once in a lifetime, begin to lose their potency, but both books deserve all these epithets and more.' The Guardian, 3.12.99 (The other book was The Oxford Companion to Food) `Deliciously definitive' The Scotsman, 4.12.99 `My advice is to buy the second edition ... a brilliant book ... by one of the great wine writers of our time' The Observer, 12.12.99 `an exhaustive and richly informed reference' Newsday `The Oxford Companion to Wine, edited by Jancis Robinson, is not just an extraordinarily well informed compendium of oenological data, it is a status symbol among wine 'cognoscenti', one of a handful of must have books for those who take their interest in wine that step further ... an oracular source 'par excellence' ... Information is presented in a typically academic, yet still warm and 'human' style.' Harold Heckle, The Tablet From reviews of the first edition: `Beautifully illustrated, with alphabetical contributions from over 80 worldwide experts, here is everything you ever wanted to know about the subject, and more.' Christie Hickman. Midweek. Dec '94 `Edited by a lively and distinguished wine writer, this is a welcome addition to the Oxford Companion series.' Good Book Guide, January 1995 `far and away the best book on drink published last year.' Times

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EDITOR Jancis Robinson, OBE and Master of Wine is one of the world's leading authorities on wine, voted the Wine Writers' Writer by her peers in The Observer. The first person outside the wine trade to have passed the notoriously tough Master of Wine exams, she is now the wine columnist for the Financial Times and writes a regular column for publications in ten countries on five continents. She is known to millions as a television presenter on wine and food, and wrote and presented the award-winning 10-part Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, shown around the world in the late 1990s. She currently spends the majority of her time writing for her website www.jancisrobinson.com, which has subscribers from over 70 countries. ASSISTANT EDITOR Julia Harding, Master of Wine, studied modern languages at Cambridge before becoming a freelance book editor. She took the Wine and Spirit Education Trust intermediate and advanced certificates and diploma in the late 1990s before going on to work in the Wine Buying department at British wine retailer Waitrose in 2001. Julia qualified as a Master of Wine in 2004, winning the Robert Mondavi award for best theory papers and the Tim Derouet Memorial Prize for excellence in all parts of the exam and dissertation. Now Jancis Robinson's full-time assistant, she was responsible for all entries on oenology and viticulture in this third edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine, and co-ordinated and copy-edited the new and revised text.

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