Description
Near Fine dust jacket illustrated with wine glasses and a globe. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Near Fine binding is pink cloth over boards, silver lettering on front and spine. Some fading to edges. Color and black-and-white illustrations. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 11.8″ tall x 9.3″ wide.
Stated: “First Printing 1971; Enlarged and Completely Revised 1978; Ninth printing 1978”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
“The wine book of the century, a cornerstone for the library of every serious student.” Wrote William Clifford when The World Atlas of Wine was first published in 1971. “One of the most useful and attractive wine books ever published,” proclaimed The New York Times; “no wine lover should be without it.” From California, where it was hailed as “a glorious book” (San Francisco Chronicle), to London, where The Times predicted it would be the wine book of the decade, to France, where the supreme authority (INAO) designated it a major landmark in the literature of wine, The World Atlas of Wine has been received with joyous acclaim and has become the standard reference for both amateurs and connoisseurs.
This is the revised and updated edition of that extraordinary book, which has sold more than 600,000 copies in nine languages.
Its full-color maps (newly extended for this edition) take you on a journey of discovery from one end of the wine-producing world to the other, for it is geography that determines a wine’s character, and to understand a wine you must understand the land that gave it life.
Here, in remarkable detail, are the features of the great vineyards of the world, from the ancient ones of France, Italy, Germany and other European countries to the new ones of California, South Africa and Australia. Elevations, watercourses, woods, roads, buildings. farm and woodland tracts, and the contours of hills and valleys are all clearly shown, for the great evocative names-Burgundy, Champagne, Beaune, Madeira–signify both wines and places.
More than a thousand of the world’s classic wine and spirit labels (most of them in full color) are reproduced, relating the wines to wine buying. This exhaustive catalogue of their places of origin as a practical guide to labels enables wine lovers to order with assurance and a knowing anticipation of what they will receive.
For the new generation of wine lovers, The World Atlas of Wine (which remains the only The such atlas currently in print) has now been expanded to contain more detailed information on how wine is being made today. The maps and vintage charts have been updated, and the text takes into account new changes in wine laws, More than ever, this is the cellar-book sans pareil, one to turn to again and again for information, commendations, comparisons, places, vintages and as a help in locating wines not yet priced beyond reason. It is the perfect book for browsing, a joy to read, and the definitive guide to the whole world of wine.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Born in London in 1939, Hugh Johnson began acquiring his knowledge of wine as a member of the Wine and Food Society at Cambridge. After a stint as wine columnist for House & Garden, he succeeded the legendary André Simon as editor of Wine & Food. At the same time, he served as General Secretary of the International Wine and Food Society. With the publication of his first book, Wine, which James Beard called “required reading for any amateur of fine wines,” the author established himself, at the age of twenty-seven, as the most refreshing and authoritative voice on the subject of wine. In fact, he has a rare talent for making any complex subject compulsively readable, and his wonderful The International Book of Trees is evidence of this. Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine was acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “a sterling little volume that can make instant connoisseurs of us all.”
