Academie du Vin Library Autumn 2023

ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY autumn 2023

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ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY autumn 2023 Welcome to the Académie du Vin Library collection.

We were founded by Steven Spurrier and Hugh Johnson to publish the best in wine writing, and we hope that you will find titles for every facet of your interest in wine in this catalogue.

Our list is small – and will never be large – because we value quality over quantity. We choose our books with care – above all for their readability, but also because we genuinely believe they have something important to say about the world of fine wine that will enhance your drinking pleasure. We are now distributing beautiful and useful books from other wine writers – titles we know our community will appreciate as much as the titles we've published ourselves.

Our newly commissioned titles aim to bring you the best of modern wine writing and to provide the colour, the background and the essential understanding on which any true enjoyment of fine wine depends. We also publish beautiful new editions of old books that we firmly believe demand a new audience. Fine wine writing, like wine itself, represents an accumulation of knowledge over the ages. Our aim is to pick the best and to let it breathe again.

Enjoy,

Hermione Ireland, Managing Director

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ON BURGUNDY From Maddening to Marvellous in 59 Wine Tales compiled by SUSAN KEEVIL foreword by Jasper Morris MW £30

Format: 246 x 189mm, 280pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-53-0

FROM TEETH-GNASHING outrage to tonsil-tickling euphoria: burgundy can baffle with its unwillingness to charm in the glass, then dazzle and astound us when we catch it at its best. It is elusive yet addictive. Those who know burgundy frequently never love another wine – not least the authors and experts in this book, whose insights here embrace the two grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay), the two slopes (the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune) and the hillsides that surround this region. They answer the questions everyone asks: Why do these wines taste as good as they do? Who makes them this way? And, how is it that this celestial terroir came to the world’s attention in the first place?

In the words of Aubert de Villaine, co-proprietor of La Domaine de la Romanée Conti: ‘On Burgundy has selected the gems, like the beautiful shells that, by chance, when we were children, we discovered on the beaches of our holidays.’

❝ Burgundy, moreover, is the Bach of wine regions – the inexhaustible urquell from which every other zone draws inspiration.

It can feel like home, even for those who have never lived there; those grave, watchful hills always nourish and surprise…❞ ANDREW JEFFORD

Cover image: “Wine bottle and books on table in the style of Picasso”, created by DALL•E AI software (https://openai.com)

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One Love. Many thoughts.

UNIQUE TO ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY, our collection of wine anthologies gathers together the words of the finest wine writers and specialists ever to put pen to paper.

Each book focuses on one of the world's major wine-growing regions and brings its flavours, its characters, its landscape and the story of its wines to life. Compiled by Susan Keevil, these fascinating books aim to illuminate, elucidate and entertain as you read. Let the journey unfold as you browse, or dip in and dip out as the fancy takes you… these books are the perfect accompaniment to your favourite glass, and the inspiration to try out vineyards new!

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ON CHAMPAGNE A Tapestry of Tales to Celebrate the Greatest Sparkling Wine of All compiled by SUSAN KEEVIL £30

Format: 246 x 189mm, 272pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-35-6

In On Champagne the thoughts, opinions and conclusions of the world’s finest champagne writers gather to reveal this wine’s action-packed trajectory from the myth of its accidental discovery – not in France, we find, but in the cider cellars of England – to the development of a high-tech champagne fit for space travel. It’s a journey that starts and ends with capturing that sparkle in a bottle and along the way beguiles us with the nuances of its chalky terrain, the determination of rebels from Ambonnay to Avize, and the mystery of a champagne cellar under the sea. We meet the pioneers who created the great champagnes of the past and the personalities who are ‘greening’ this landscape, nurturing it through climate change to shape the exquisite champagnes of the future.

❝ Clutching a flute of champagne is a secular rite – to denote achievement, happiness, success, or to shine a light on any of the significant way-marks in life ❞ ANDREW JEFFORD acad e mi e d uvi nli b ar y.co m

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ON CALIFORNIA

ON BORDEAUX

Fom Napa to Nebbiolo… Wine Tales From the Golden State

Tales of the Unexpected from the World's Greatest Wine Region

compiled by SUSAN KEEVIL

ed SUSAN KEEVIL

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Format: 246 x 189mm, 272pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-20-2

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ON CALIFORNIA captures the essence of California’s spectacular array of wine.

Beyond the intricate flavours of today's Pinot Noir, the power of its Cabernet Sauvignon and the elegance of Chardonnay it asks what brought these wines to the Golden State in the first place? It also looks at the people who have made California wine great. The pioneers, the boffins, the whizz-kids and scientists, many of whom tell their stories on its pages – some in precious archive material, others have set down their thoughts mid-pandemic in 2021, not least wine royalty Randall Grahm, Gerald Asher, Steven Spurrier, Paul Draper and Warren Winiarski. Contributions from Elaine Chukan Brown, Mary Margaret McCamic MW, Karen MacNeil, Esther Mobley, Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Liz Thach MW, Clare Tooley MW and Kelli White as well as British favourites, Hugh Johnson, Jane Anson and Fiona Morrison MW and more.

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Format: 246 x 189mm, 288pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-05-9

WHEN THINGS TURN OUT right for Bordeaux, as they frequently do, its wines are sublime. They inspire many thousands of tributes, from Samuel Pepys’ succinct reviews to the most rhapsodic of Michael Broadbent’s tasting notes – in short, over 300 years of wine writing. On Bordeaux is a collection of the best bits, from our best-loved wine writers, critics and commentators, set around the themes that make Bordeaux tick – the history, the vintage, the vineyards, the aristocracy, the rivalry between Left and Right, dining out…

Contributions from Hugh Johnson, Fiona Beckett, Baron Elie de Rothschild, Mathieu Chadronnier, Christian Seely, Joe Fattorini, Ian Maxwell Campbell, Fiona Morrison MW, John Salvi, Bill Blatch, Peter VindingDiers and more.

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❝ California’s wine is the most important development since the Romans planted vines on the slopes of Burgundy and in the sand and gravel around Bordeaux ❞

❝ If you want to know why Bordeaux is so much talked about, read this book from the most knowledgeable insiders and the most entertaining outsiders ❞

HUGH JOHNSON

STEVEN SPURRIER

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FROM BORDEAUX TO THE STARS

THE BORDEAUX CLUB

The Reawakening of a Wine Legend

The 70-Year Story of Great Wines and the Friends Who Shared Them

JEAN-MICHEL CAZES

NEIL McKENDRICK

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Format: 240 x 170mm, 348pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-48-6

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JEAN-MICHEL CAZES is an international figure in wine, having helped to bring the vineyards of Bordeaux into the modern era and borne personal witness to many of the upheavals in the wine world over the past 50 years. This book, translated by leading Bordeaux expert Jane Anson, is his story – not just of his own journey, but of the evolution of winemaking over the 20th century and into the 21st. In his own words Jean-Michel powerfully describes how the transformation of his family's property – the renowned Château Lynch-Bages, one of the Left Bank’s most treasured crus – mirrored that of the region itself: radical change in the vineyards, breakthrough vinification techniques, and a run of stellar vintages that reignited a global passion for the wines of Bordeaux that persists to this day – from provincial Pauillac to, quite literally, the fringes of outer space!

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Format: 240 x 170mm, 384pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-34-9

THE STORY OF 12 FRIENDS who gathered to share and celebrate the extraordinary wines of Bordeaux. Like-minded in their love of wine, they differed wildly (often alarmingly!) in their personal wealth, life and circumstances. Their opinions, always voiced, had the power to ignite anger and divide friendships just as easily as they bound them together.

Neil McKendrick, member and minutetaker for 57 of the Club’s 70 extraordinary years, weaves the tale of this convivial group with the rigour of a Cambridge academic (he is ex-Master of Gonville and Caius) and the humour of a born raconteur.

He celebrates the beauty of top-class Bordeaux and the splendour of each setting – from glorious country houses to rickety Dickensian boardrooms – in which these men were lucky enough to dine, serving up memories of vintages the like of which we will never see again.

❝ Wine is for me, like bread, the basis of all food. It is the essential drink, synonymous with culture, happiness and the art of living ❞

❝ Associations and societies such as the Bordeaux Club are the very acme of civilization ❞

JEAN-MICHEL CAZES

ANDREW ROBERTS

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DRINKING WITH THE VALKYRIES

OZ CLARKE ON WINE

Writings on Wine

Your Global Wine Companion

ANDREW JEFFORD

OZ CLARKE

£25 Format: 225 x 170mm, 224pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-33-2

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Format: 240 x 170mm, 496pp fullflex binding ISBN: 978-1-913141-18-9 eBook format also available

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POET, PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR, radio presenter and journalist, Andrew Jefford is the ideal companion for anyone wine-curious. In this collection of his essays and opinions he spans back through the mists of 80 or 90 centuries and forwards to the wine countries and cultures of today, sharing his fascinating observations from five decades of discovery.

For Andrew, wine should be listened to and admired, wherever it comes from; old-school pretentions turned on their head; style-points disdained; stellar prices dismissed; questions asked...

And his secret wine pleasure?

Drinking port young, in its 'Ride of the Valkyries' stage 'when it comes hurtling out of the glass and puts the screamers on you…'

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OZ CLARKE ON WINE is a fast-paced, informative and witty romp around the world of wine. Crammed with Oz’s encyclopaedic knowledge and personal tastes, it explores the grape varieties key to the world’s major wine styles, and the vineyards and regions where a vast trove of wine treasure lies waiting for discovery. Oz conjures up the wine world’s most beautiful landscapes, its zaniest characters and most elusive flavours. He is passionate about sharing the implications of climate change on winemaking and here reveals where wine is seeing its best success in our warming world. This is Oz’s most personal book to date. The most unputdownable wine read this century.

❝ Words, in the hands of Andrew Jefford, are jewels, and he cuts, shapes and sets them with lapidary precision.

They sparkle on the page. ❞

❝ He effervesces with his love for wine, eyes closed with passion, words tripping over each other in sheer, giddy joy ❞

TAMLYN CURRIN

JANCISROBINSON.COM

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STEVEN SPURRIER A LIFE IN WINE £30

Format: 225 x 170mm, 288pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-07-3 | eBook/audio formats available

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THE MOMENT HE WAS HANDED a glass of Cockburn 1908 vintage port by his grandfather at 13 years old, Steven Spurrier knew he would make wine his career. He travelled Europe in his red sports car (fitted with a compact wine fridge in the boot), working the vintage in Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne, before embarking on the first of many extraordinary ventures: setting up shop to sell wine to the French. As an Englishman in the heart of Paris, this seemed a remarkably bold (if not foolish) project, but the plan worked. In 1976, he went on to mastermind the ‘Judgement of Paris’, the France vs California blind tasting that changed the wine world forever.

This memoir looks back on Steven’s life charting the incidents, adventures, ideas and discoveries that formed his wine journey. With tributes from Hugh Johnson, Miguel Torres, Oz Clarke, Jancis Robinson MW, Warren Winiarski and many more.

❝ Few people have so profoundly informed, guided and inspired generations through their journeys in wine ❞ ANDREW CAILLARD MW acad e mi e d uvi nli b ar y.co m

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CHATEAU MUSAR Story of a Wine Icon ed SUSAN KEEVIL £30

Format: 246 x 189mm, 208pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-04-2 WINEMAKING IS NEVER easy, but in the case of Chateau Musar, the most famous wine to come out of Lebanon, there have been times when it has been almost impossibly difficult. Serge Hochar once said ‘In Lebanon, difficulties are our habit. We are addicted to difficulties!’ as he famously continued to make his wines despite the bombing and shelling going on around him. This is his story, and also that of Gaston, Marc, Ralph and Tarek – a new generation continuing the family tradition of making wines full of character with minimal interference. This is winemaking at its most instinctive, inspired by nature and resonating with the spirit of survival that has sustained the Hochars’ troubled homeland. With contributions from Kevin Gould, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jancis Robinson MW, Steven Spurrier, Catherine Miles, Edward Ragg MW, Fongyee Walker MW, Michael Broadbent, Andrew Jefford, Bartholomew Broadbent and Susan Keevil, it is indeed a tale of our times.

A VIKING IN THE VINEYARD Stories from a Revolutionary Winemaker PETER VINDING-DIERS £30

Format: 225 x 170mm, 256pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-12-7 | eBook format available PETER VINDING-DIERS is a Danish aristocrat turned roving winemaker who, on escaping his studies at the Sorbonne one summer, found himself on Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune and was suddenly besotted. His first foray into wine took him to the Cape (via a quick turn parachuting into war-torn Vietnam), where he learned vineyard ways and wine science. Next came a dazzling decade in Bordeaux, where his pioneering exploits began to catch the world’s attention. He then ventured to Bulgaria, Brazil, Spain, Chile and Hungary earning himself the title ‘Flying Winemaker’ (he was one of the first). Along his wine journey, Peter has frequently had to call on his Viking ancestors for help – not least in taming his ‘Montecarrubo’ vineyards on the wilder side of Sicily – but whether by accident or design he has always found himself at the forefront of vinous discovery.

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THE STORY OF WINE

10 GREAT WINE FAMILIES

From Noah to Now

A Tour Through Europe

HUGH JOHNSON

FIONA MORRISON MW

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Format: 225 x 170mm, 296pp, hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-01-1

Format: 240 x 170mm, 496pp fullflex binding ISBN: 978-1-913141-06-6 | eBook/audio formats available

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HUGH JOHNSON has led the literature of wine in many new directions over a 60-year career. His classic The Story of Wine is his most enthralling and enduring work, winner of every wine award in the UK and USA. It tells with wit, scholarship and humour how wine became the global phenomenon it is today, varying from mass-produced plonk to rare bottles fetching many thousands. It ranges from Noah to Napa, Pompeii to Prohibition to Pomerol, gripping, anecdotal, personal, controversial and fun.

This new edition includes Hugh’s view on the changes wine has seen in the past 30 years. In his Foreword, the celebrated historian Andrew Roberts writes: ‘The genius of The Story of Wine derives from the fact that it is emphatically not a dry-as-dust academic history – there are dozens of those – but an adventure story, full of mysteries, art and culture.’

THE LIFE AND WINES OF HUGH JOHNSON £30

Format: 240 x 170mm, 352pp fullflex binding ISBN: 978-1-913141-30-1 | eBook format available IN THIS UNIQUE APPROACH to understanding wine, Hugh Johnso weaves the story of his own epic wine journey with an embracing view of everything he has discovered along the way.

Almost without realising it, the reader is drawn into a fascinating world; with each page turned, knowledge is gained and wine wisdom absorbed.

Hugh takes us from the teetering ledges of the Mosel and majestic châteaux of the Médoc to the sylvan slopes of Windsor Great Park with a spring in his step and a tasting glass at the ready. No one writes so infectiously on every aspect of wine, whether human or cultural, technical or historical. This book is peppered with anecdotes and personal recollections, infused with the sheer delight Hugh finds in his subject. It is a book with a story to tell and a mastery of wine to impart.

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AN UP-CLOSE AND PERSONAL insight into 10 of Europe’s most celebrated winemaking families that chronicles their triumphs, trials and tribulations through successive generations. Not just any wine families: the likes of Frescobaldi, Gaja, Torres, Perrin, Niepoort, Knoll and Torres, known and revered across the world. Fiona Morrison was welcomed into the homes of each (with her photographer) and was able to capture the ‘behind the scenes’ excitement of winemaking in the kind of vivid detail impossible to achieve in a magazine article.

A must-read for any wine lover, Fiona offers both intimate portraits and topical insights, as she raises questions about climate change, globalization, how to make a family business commercial, organic trends, and the tricky business of inheritance tax.

SHERRY Maligned • Misunderstood • Magnificent!

BEN HOWKINS £25

Format: 240 x 170mm, 224pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-28-8 THIS LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED book casts an expert yet readable eye over an old favourite – out of fashion in recent years, but, in the opinion of those in the know, set to make a magnificent comeback.

Made in a unique way, matured in cellars dating back to the age of the Conquistadores, and bursting with a panoply of sun-drenched flavours, Sherry has – due to a succession of scandals and bad luck during the 1970s – been maligned and misunderstood. But the Sherry scene is set for seismic change. With a series of new styles, new vineyards and a dynamic new crop of cellar masters, this wine is creating a revolution in the world’s restaurants that can’t be ignored. Ben Howkins, in colourful words and equally evocative pictures, delves deep into Sherry’s fascinating story and reveals why it is set to come back into our lives with a magnificent flourish!

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WINE TASTING The Commemorative Edition MICHAEL BROADBENT £30

Format: 246 x 189mm, 160pp, hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-00-4 | eBook format available

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THE BOOK THAT BEGAN it all: Michael Broadbent’s definitive guide republished with contributions from friends, colleagues and family, plus a unique insight into the author’s artistic and musical talents. Before the first publication of Wine Tasting in 1968, appreciating fine wine was a pastime enjoyed by the privileged few: there was no set methodology for comparing wines, and no common vocabulary by which tasters could compare notes or pass on their knowledge. Michael Broadbent changed all that. By following his detailed approach to wine tasting – taking in all we see, smell and taste – he brought an appreciation of wine’s true qualities within everyone’s grasp and launched an industry that has never looked back. This special Commemorative Edition contains the original text from the 1975 edition, prefaced by introductions from Hugh Johnson, Jancis Robinson MW, Steven Spurrier and the late Gerard Basset.

IN VINO VERITAS A Collection of Fine Wine Writing, Past and Present ed SUSAN KEEVIL £30

Format: 246 x 189mm, 224pp, hardback ISBN: 978-1-913141-03-5 AN ELEGANTLY BOUND collection of fine wine writing past and present – the perfect gift for wine lovers everywhere (and the wine lovers in their life). With contributions from Michael Broadbent on good and bad vintages, Ian Maxwell Campbell on Bordeaux vs Burgundy, George Orwell and PG Wodehouse on the complementary pleasures of wine and tea, Randall Grahm on the search for California’s ‘magic grape’ and Andrew Caillard MW on the art of the wine label, it brims with wit and wisdom from some of the most erudite wine writers ever to raise a glass.

Like Cyril Ray’s classic Compleat Imbiber before it, In Vino Veritas might rightfully be described as ‘the quintessential late-evening or bedtime book for those who like wine’.

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GEORGIA A Guide to the Cradle of Wine MIQUEL HUDIN & DARIA KHOLODILINA £25

Format: 217 x 157mm, 300pp hardback ISBN: 978-19-41598-05-4

GEORGIAN WINE is one of, if not the most, ancient wines in the world. For some 8,000 years, Georgia has been continually producing wine within its borders, making it a fascinating crossroads of viticulture. This tiny land of green valleys and mighty rivers bordering the Black Sea is finally getting recognition for its unique and wonderful wines. Drawing on more than 400 native grape varieties, including Rkatsiteli, Saperavi, Chinuri, Aladasturi, Krakhuna and Kisi, Georgian wine is made both by the ‘international’ method of tank fermentation and barrel aging, and also by the age-old method of whole-cluster vinification in terracotta pots known as kvevri.

This comprehensive guide provides detailed profiles of Georgia's leading wine producers, along with GPS coordinates, full-colour photos and informative maps.

Whether you’re a seasoned connoisseur or a newcomer to Georgian wine, this is a book that will transport you to the place where it all began.

❝ An absolute treasure-trove of information that makes it without question the best guide book for any wine lover travelling to Georgia ❞ JANCISROBINSON.COM

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KLEIN CONSTANTIA

ETHOS PRIORAT

The Home of Vin de Constance

Listen, the Wine is Talking...

JOANNE GIBSON & MALU LAMBERT

ELIZABETH HECKER

£35

Format: 280 x 210mm, 144pp hardback ISBN: 978-0-639728-88-9

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‘The Constantia Valley is far more than the cradle of wine culture in South Africa, just as Klein Constantia is not merely the present embodiment of a long-forgotten estate, or Vin de Constance the modern incarnation of a wine of legend.’ So writes Michael Fridjhon in his foreword to this beautiful book which tells the dramatic and inspiring story of Klein Constantia through its people, vineyards and wines.

Beginning in the late 17th century, Joanne Gibson describes how Constantia became one of the sought-after wines in the world.

After disappearing without trace for over a century, it was reborn with the replanting of Klein Constantia in the 1980s. Malu Lambert tells the story of Klein Constantia’s contemporary renaissance under its inspirational new ownership since 2011, which has left no stone unturned to ensure that this beautiful and timeless estate take its rightful place as one of the world’s greatest fine wine producers. Together, they take readers on a remarkable journey of discovery in a hardback publication that has been beautifully designed, illustrated and printed.

£60

Format: 261 x 209mm 334pp hardback ISBN: 978-0578920-71-9

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ETHOS PRIORAT captures the nature and spirit of the DOQ Priorat, a tiny wine region in the mountains southwest of Barcelona. It has been written, photographed and designed

by Elizabeth Hecker over a span of 15 years. The author spent time in the cellars and vineyards of each of the region's 12 viticultural areas, and her experiences, along with those of Priorat's winemakers, inspired every part of the book; she also consulted with experts in regional history, geology, viticulture and winemaking to support her own powerfully evocative impressions. Their collective story flows through every beautifully photographed page, bringing the special magic of Priorat wines to life.

❝ At Klein Constantia we are merely the custodians of something that is bigger than all of us. All that we do here is for the next 350 years ❞

❝ Despite its physical beauty, this is not a coffee-table book: it is detailed, practical, and packed with facts from years of research walking the vineyards and villages ❞

ZDENEK BAKALA, owner of Klein Constantia

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PORT VINTAGES

JURA WINE

The Chronicle of Vintages Ports, from the Beginning

With Local Food and Travel Tips

J. D. A. WISEMAN

WINK LORCH

£100

Format: 297 x 210 mm, 700pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-916460-21-8

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IN MANY WINE REGIONS of the world the best type of wine is made every year. This is not true of Vintage Port.

The Port producers do not ‘declare’ a Vintage Port in every year; only in some, when they believe the wine will have enough power, durability and excellence. For most Port brands, this happens about one year in three. Past books on Vintage Port have included appendices listing producers by year, or years by producer, but contain errors, both of inclusion and omission. In this, the second edition of Port Vintages, self-confessed Port fanatic J. D. A. Wiseman has researched the subject from the ground up and leveraged his close personal relationships with the various producers to compile what is surely the most definitive guide to Vintage Port ever published.

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Format: 230mm x 160mm, 352pp paperback ISBN: 978-0-9928331-0-7 A BOOK THAT UNCOVERS the mystery and myriad styles of the Jura wine region and its wines, which have caught the imagination of wine lovers worldwide. The author includes an insight into the region’s history and culture, unravels the complications of this tiny wine region, and shares often untold stories of over 90 wine producers from the smallest to the largest. Local food and travel tips are a bonus.

Wink Lorch has been a writer and educator on wine for many years, and her books appeal to wine professionals and wine lovers alike. Living partly in the French Alps, only a couple of hours from the Jura region, she has written about the region's wine, food and tourism for many international magazines and books. ★ Winner of the 2014 André Simon Book Awards, Drinks Prize

THE SOUTH AMERICA WINE GUIDE

WINES OF THE FRENCH ALPS

The Definitive Guide

Savoie, Bugey and Beyond With Local Food and Travel Tips

AMANDA BARNES

WINK LORCH

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Format: 248 x 178mm, 528pp hardback ISBN: 978-1-8381846-29

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Format: 230mm x 160mm, 392pp paperback ISBN: 978-0-9928331-1-4

WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS John Avery Award in the André Simon Awards and Fortnum & Mason's Debut Drink Book Award in 2022, this monumental book is the result of 10 years of research and interviews conducted by the author while travelling around and living on the continent. In collaboration with over 60 regional specialists, The South America Wine Guide describes more than 70 wine regions and maps out 40 in stunning detail – many of which have never before been mapped or documented in the English language. With charismatic and engaging writing, the author artfully explores 500 years of wine history and insightfully puts the wines of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and beyond into a modern context. Full of exciting discoveries for even the most seasoned wine expert, while still approachable for those just beginning their foray into the world of wine.

AFTER YEARS HIDDEN AWAY in landlocked mountain valleys, the wines of Savoie and Bugey are at last garnering international attention. This book tells the story of the men and women who make these characterful wines, how they have tamed the steep hillsides to plant their vines, and how they have evolved their winemaking to achieve outstanding results from obscure local grape varieties.

Alongside upwards of 100 producer profiles, the author catalogues the appellations, terroir, and viticultural techniques of the region, as well as exploring its rich and unique history.

Wines of the French Alps is the most complete record of the wines of Savoie and Bugey ever published in any language, and is set to become an essential handbook for all those who like their French wines a little out of the ordinary.

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CLASSIC EDITIONS Great Wine Writing of the Past Revisited In the Vine Country Edith Someville & Martin Ross

Introduced by Victoria Moore Journeying through the Médoc in 1891, Anglo-Irish cousins and travelling companions, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (aka Violet Florence Martin) bring a mélange of wry wit, acute observation and unabashed horror at the barefoot treading of Cabernet Sauvignon to this delightful account of vendangeurs lofty and low-born as they bring in the harvest in time-honoured fashion. Illustrated using Somerville’s equally delightful sketches, this is a story of two feisty ladies for whom anything remotely pretentious is fair game.

ISBN 978-1-913141-14-1 160pp

Wayward Tendrils of the Vine Ian Maxwell Campbell

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Introduced by Neal Martin Writing in the immediate aftermath of World War II, wine merchant, gentleman soldier and cricketer Ian Maxwell Campbell casts an affectionate look back at the Golden Age of wine, when Bordeaux was affordable, Burgundy’s finest vintages tended towards cannibalism and other wines could be… well, surprisingly attractive.

This book, though, is much more than a collection of reminiscences. As Neal Martin says: 'The title alone is a perfect allegory for how we learn about wine, how knowledge grows organically over time, never knowing what the next bottle will teach us, how it might alter preconceptions or where it might lead.'

ISBN 978-1-913141-16-5 224pp

Stay Me with Flagons Maurice Healy

Introduced by Fiona Morrison MW Maurice Healy’s love letter to wine, and to the wines he enjoyed with friends during his long study of the subject. Healy takes us on a comprehensive tour of Europe, visiting all the key wine regions of the time and commenting on the impact of World War II on wine production. Originally written in 1940, this edition was first published after Healy’s premature death in 1950 including notes from his great friend Ian Maxwell Campbell – with whom often disagreed on the subject of wine! An elegiac yet often humorous study of wine, as readable now as it was 70 years ago.

ISBN 978-1-913141-23-3 266pp

A Contemplation of Wine H Warner Allen

THE ACADEMIE DU VIN

WINE COURSE “Learn By Tasting the Best” After a hugely successful run in Toronto, Canada in 2022-23, we are proud to announce that the ACADEMIE DU VIN WINE COURSE is coming to London.

Following our founder Steven Spurrier's maxim that the best way to learn about fine wines is to taste as many of them as you possibly can (and to have fun while doing so), this course offers unrivalled access to some of the greatest wines and vintages ever to be consigned to a bottle. Expertly guide, with digital Course Notes that can be referred back to any time, anywhere, the ACADEMIE DU VIN WINE COURSE consists of four Modules of four Sessions each to be held at locations across the UK. Complete them, and we can virtually guarantee that however much you thought you knew about wine, you'll know a whole lot by the end!

Introduced by Harry Eyres Journalist and World War I frontline reporter, Hubert Warner Allen (1881–1968) casts an observant eye over the way wine appears in literature, from the words of Roman connoisseurs to the excesses of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, taking in the wisdom of 18th-century epicurean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and the sagacity of legendary wine writers George Saintsbury and André Simon. Warner Allen’s observations are both fascinating and highly entertaining. As Harry Eyres says: ‘Literary, historical, discursive, personal: this is very much the opposite of modern wine writing, and presents another era seen through a glass darkly.’

ISBN 978-1-913141-25-7 224pp

£14.99

An absolute must for serious lovers of fine wine!

Visit academieduvinlibrary.com/courses for more details

Format (all): 216 x 153mm, paperback (eBook format also available)

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CELLAR COLLECTION No 1 Your favourite wine books together

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THE ULTIMATE PACKAGE of your favourite wine books by your favourite writers, the Cellar Collection sits in a beautiful Wibalin cloth-covered slipcase with foil embossing. It is the perfect way to display and store titles that every good cellar or library should include.

Enjoy Hugh Johnson’s exploration of the long and fascinating history of wine, along with the work of other writers including George Orwell and PG Wodehouse. The father of formal wine tasting, Michael Broadbent, guides you through the knowledge you need to get the most out of what you drink.

Learn about glorious wines including sherries, clarets and the extraordinary Lebanese wines made by Chateau Musar. Meet the legendary wine commentators, including Steven Spurrier, and get to know some of the noblest winemaking families of Europe with Fiona Morrison MW.

£275

8 books in cloth-bound slipcase Slipcase dimensions 26.5cm (h) x 18.5c m(w) x 20.5cm (d) ISBN 978-1-913141-27-1

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