• In Vino Veritas
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  • In Vino Veritas
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  • Format:Hardback
  • ISBN:9781913141035
  • Publication Date:22-11-2019
  • Pages:224

In Vino Veritas

A Collection of Fine Wine Writing, Past and Present

Various authors, Ed. Susan Keevil

In Vino Veritas

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‘Literary treasures are unearthed. Unless you have a heart of stone, you’ll fall in love with Colette, whose novels and essays not only celebrated wine, but also described it so well that she was deemed “our most perceptive wine writer”…’
Brian St Pierre, The World of Fine Wine 

‘In Vino Veritas is a gorgeous package, stunningly illustrated with exquisite colour and historic black and white photographs and handsomely bound with a blue ribbon marker.’
Neal D Hulkower, Journal of Wine Economics

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An elegantly bound collection of fine wine writing past and present – the perfect gift for wine lovers everywhere (or the wine lovers in their life
    • Introduced by Hugh Johnson
    • Michael Broadbent on Good and Bad Vintages
    • Elin McCoy and Andrew Caillard MW answer the question ‘Is Wine Art?’
    • Pioneering winemaker Randall Grahm on California’s ‘Magic Grape’
    • Bordeaux, Burgundy or Napa Cabernet? Steven Spurrier, Maurice Healy and Ian Maxwell Campbell decide on the better wine...
    • Wise words on Sparkling Bordeaux, ‘Barbaric’ Auslese and the benefits of a good label, from George Saintsbury, Charles Walter Berry and Baron Philippe de Rothschild
    • Wine words from the poets: Colette, Horace and Charles Baudelaire
    • George Orwell and PG Wodehouse on the pleasures of wine and tea
    • Contributions from Fiona Morrison MW, H Warner Allen, Henry Vizetelly, Justin Howard-Sneyd MW, Kathleen Burk, Peter Vinding-Diers, Simon Loftus, Jason Tesauro, Cecil Torr, Cyrus Redding, Dirk Niepoort, Ben Howkins, Jane MacQuitty, Gerald Asher, Dan Keeling, Jonathan Miles, Joan Littlewood, Tony Aspler, Giles MacDonogh, Alice Wooledge Salmon and Harry Eyres

 

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Susan Keevil started her life in wine as a ‘cellar rat’ cooling Chardonnays in Australia’s Hunter Valley, none of which prepared her for the world of book publishing back in the UK where she honed her wine knowledge working with Hugh Johnson on six editions of his international best-seller, the Pocket Wine Book. Susan then landed her dream job as editor of Decanter magazine (the path to many worldwide wine adventures) and later became author of the Which? Guide to Wine as well as a regular magazine columnist and contributor. The launch of the Académie du Vin Library in 2019 saw a return to specialist wine books for which Susan is a writer and editor-in-chief.
  • Weight 1.1 kg
  • Dimensions 189 x 246 mm

‘The books that taught me about wine were about places and people. It’s the history and stories about a wine that bring it to life and make it worth talking about.’

– Steven Spurrier