The Oxford companion to wine / edited by Jancis Robinson

ISBN:

9780198661597

Title:

Author:

Robinson, Jancis

Publication Information:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1994

Physical Description:

1088 p. : ill., maps

General Note:

One copy [1200382226] bought by and kept by Wine Studies Team.

One copy [1200417380] bought & held by Food & Beverage.

Subject Term:

Wine and wine making -- Encyclopedias.

Wine and wine making -- Dictionaries.

Added Author:

Robinson, Jancis

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

1994

Publication Information:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1994

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Edited by award-winning wine writer Jancis Robinson, and with over 3,000 alphabetically-listed entries and a distinguished team of more than seventy international contributors, The Oxford Companion to Wine offers unrivalled coverage of wine in all its aspects: historical, geographical, social, scientific, and cultural. As well as authoritative entries on wine-making, wine appreciation, and the wine trade the book also offers both amateur and professional wine enthusiasts an enormous body of fascinating background information - from Dionysian revels in ancient Greece to Prohibition in 1920s America; from decanters, corkscrews, and glasses to soil types, pruning, and labelling. If you have a question about wine, The Oxford Companion to Wine will almost certainly have an answer. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, here is the ultimate wine reference book for anyone who wishes to enhance their enjoyment and knowledge of what Ernest Hemingway called `one of the most civilized things in the world'.

Author Notes

Jancis Robinson is a wine writer and broadcaster with an international reputation. The only journalist to have passed the Master of Wine exams, she has a regular column in both the Financial Times and the world's biggest-circulation wine magazine The Wine Spectator. Author of numerous books, including the award-winning Vines, Grapes and Wines (1986), and Vintage Timecharts (1989), she is probably best-known as the presenter of The Wine Programme, the world's first TV series on wine. She is currently researching and filming for a major new BBC TV series on wine and grape varieties around the world, to be broadcast in 1995.

Reviews (3)

Booklist Review

Robinson has ensured this extensive encyclopedic reference of more than 4,000 entries reflects the vast changes the wine world has experienced over the decade since the last edition was published. Nearly 200 contributors helped revise more than 2,000 entries and pen more than 300 new entries on the wide spectrum of oenology, including historical and scientific influences, winemakers and vineyards, and the myriad vocabulary terms used in wine description. In addition to the detailed text, there are numerous images, regional maps, and tasting charts. This valuable resource is recommended for public as well as academic and special libraries.--Smith, Becca Copyright 2015 Booklist

Choice Review

This fourth edition of a standard work is really an encyclopedic compendium of information regarding the world of wine. As in the previous editions published in 1994, 1996, and 2006, Robinson (Financial Times wine columnist) has collected the inputs of a large array of international experts (over 185) from not only the world of enology, but also from viticulture, geography, climate, psychology, and wine marketing. The entries are listed alphabetically, and there are an impressive number of new entries (over 300) in this edition. This edition continues the clear presentation of the earlier editions and her companion work, American Wine (CH, Aug'13, 50-6520). The hefty volume contains useful maps and high quality color plates, although there are fewer plates than in the first edition. This is a valuable desk-side volume for any wine or grape academic, a necessity for all agricultural libraries, and a source for answers to questions regarding grape varieties or wine types, where grapes are grown and wines produced, and the conditions of viniculture and wine-making methods that collectively make them special. From the outset, this work has been a joy for readers, and remains so with this newest revision, offering clarity, concise details, and a high standard of accuracy in the treatment of its diverse subject. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. --Gordon Stanley Howell, Michigan State University

Library Journal Review

This essential addition to reference collections breaks new ground. Unlike the excellent works by Alexis Lichine (e.g., Alexis Lichine's Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France, Knopf, 1989. 4th ed.) or Hugh Johnson (e.g., Vintage, S. & S., 1992), which are standard sources on the growing, buying, drinking, tasting, and enjoying of wine, this work broadens the discussion to "less obvious topics, such as animals (their function as vine pests), auctions, the specific influence of the British, and Australians, on the world of wine, fashion, fraud, global overproduction, wine in literature and art, and the role of water throughout wine production." About 3000 alphabetically arranged entries range from the most familiar topics, such as "California," to the quite obscure (e.g., "Xynisteri," a white grape grown on Cyprus). Yet those less interested in the esoterica of wine will surely find the information they seek, as about 70 percent of the book is concerned with specific wines and areas of wine production. There is also practical guidance on such matters as serving wine and matching the right wine with the right food. Editor Robinson, who writes regularly for the Wine Spectator, is widely respected for her taste and abilities. Here she assembles an international cast of over 70 experts. Since only a small number are from the United States and since many may be unfamiliar to the average American reader, this work is also valuable as a kind of directory of authorities on wine-related subjects. While erudite, this book is not dry; historical anecdotes abound. The text is complemented by over 250 fascinating illustrations, which include an aroma wheel, maps, a red wine-making chart, labels, a varietal geneaology, a wine-tasting sheet used by judges, and more. This book, which offers something for everyone, is highly recommended.-Wendy Miller, Lexington P.L., Ky. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Maps	p. vi
Preface To The Second Edition	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition	p. viii
Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
List of New Entries	p. xv
Complete List of Entries by Subject	p. xvii
Note to the Reader	p. xxviii
Alphabetical Entries	p. 1
Appendix 1 Complete list of controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties	p. 793
Appendix 2 Vineyard area, wine production, and per capita wine consumption by country	p. 803
Appendix 3 Fine wine investment in the 1990s	p. 807
Appendix 4 Guide to vintages	p. 818
Picture credits	p. 820

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