With over 11 million copies sold worldwide Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book can rightly claim to the number one bestselling wine guide.
Not an inch of space is wasted in the book’s 336 pages – everything anybody is probably ever going to need to know about wine appears to be included. It is incredibly useful. Even the front inside cover has been brought into use to show handy, quick reference vintage charts, whilst the inside back cover features some technical words and a chart showing the right temperature for wine.
Having not long returned from the Centro Portugal region we spent several happy minutes checking out the wines from the region. And we were delighted to discover that some of the South African wines we had sampled on a visit a couple of years ago are listed.
Apart from wines from various countries there are also useful chapters on grape varieties, wine & food, alternative wine selections plus port, sherry and madeira.
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2014. Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1-84533-744-5. £11.99. www.octopusbooks.co.uk
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