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United Kingdom
Hugh Johnson has led wine writing in many new directions over a 60-year career. His classic The History of Wine is his most gripping and enduring work, winner of every wine prize in the UK and US. With wit, scholarship and humour, it tells how wine became the global phenomenon it is today, from mass-produced flongue to rare bottles selling for many thousands. It covers Noah and Napa, Pompeii and Prohibition and Pomerol, and is gripping, anecdotal, personal, controversial and hilarious. This new edition includes Hugh’s take on how wine has changed over the last 30 years.
In his foreword, renowned historian Andrew Roberts writes: “The genius of The History of Wine is that it is not a dry academic history at all – there are dozens of those – but an adventure story, full of mystery, art and culture.”
Additional information
Language: English
Softcover
496 pages
170 x 240 mm x 1.169 kg