The Hard Back Collection

Wine Confident — There is No Wrong Way to Enjoy Wine, Kelli A White

  • The same elements that make wine thrilling – its breadth of regions, varieties and vintages, its ever-changing nature, rituals and the many languages of its labels – can also make it intimidating. And this breaks Kelli White’s heart. In Wine Confident, she takes the anxiety out of wine description by teaching us how to reach the right metaphors; debunks the myths around restaurant choices; tells the truth about sommeliers (she’s been there, she is one!), and teaches us how to order wine like a pro. For Kelli, wine really matters – not just as a fine-dining accompaniment or to relax your shoulders at the end of a long day, but as a clue to the character of our natural world. Here, upper-class pretensions are swept aside and the core message of this book –communicated with Kelli’s uniquely quirky wit and warm humour – is clear.

  • Format: Hardback
    ISBN: 9781917084499
    Publication Date: 01-10-2024
    Pages: 256

    €32.95

Drinking with the Valkyries — Writings on Wine
Andrew Jefford

  • Andrew Jefford is, in the words of winemaker Randall Grahm, ‘the most thoughtful person we have writing about wine’. Discover why in this selection from Jefford’s work, celebrating the limitless beauty of wine difference. This book anatomizes the pleasure that awaits every drinker while simultaneously furnishing a philosophy of wine – one founded on astonishment, and drawing on personal discovery rather than hierarchy and mastery. There is no other wine writing like this.

    Poet, philosopher, author, radio presenter and journalist, Andrew lives in France; but buried deep in one wine country what does he miss most about the rest? The answer: ‘Drinking young port. It’s the wine drinker’s equivalent of zorbing, wing-walking, base-jumping ... you won’t fully understand it unless you have tasted it young, in its “Ride of the Valkyries” stage, when it comes hurtling out of the glass and puts the screamers on you...’

  • Format: Hardback
    ISBN: 9781913141325
    Publication Date: 21-11-2022
    Pages: 272

    €45.95

Bordeaux, The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide
Georgie Hindle

  • Bordeaux, the spiritual home of wine, fires the imagination of anyone who has ever pulled a cork. So evocative is the name and so renowned are the wines, you might think you know it already – but Bordeaux is much more than the glamour of the great estates. If you want to find the hidden corners – the country lanes as well as the famous Route des Châteaux, if your dream is not just to visit but to know and love the greatest wine region on Earth, this is the book for you.

    Everything you need to know about Bordeaux and its wines

    • Wine history and geography
    • Bordeaux classifications explained
    • The best villages and wineries to visit
    • Where to eat and where to stay
    • Wine routes for day trippers and weekenders
    • Where the winemakers dine

    • Format:Paperback

    • ISBN:9781917084512

    • Publication Date:31-10-2024

    • Pages:200

    €16.95

From Bordeaux to the Stars — The Reawakening of a Wine Legend
Jean-Michel Cazes

  • Jean-Michel Cazes’ powerful description of the transformation not just of the Cazes family’s estate – the renowned classed growth Château Lynch-Bages, one of the Left Bank’s most treasured crus – but of Bordeaux’s entire wine scene. Witnessing radical change in the vineyards over the last 50 years, breakthrough vinification technology, and a sequence of stellar vintages that reignited a global passion for the wines of Bordeaux, he charts the path of this wine to a new look that shook the world... literally, from provincial Pauillac to the fringes of outer-space!

  • Format: Hardback
    ISBN: 9781913141486
    Publication Date: 03-04-2023
    Pages: 320

    €45.95

Rioja — The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide
Fintan Kerr

  • Rioja is one of the great wine regions of the world, with a history that spans many centuries. Here you find hilltop villages with narrow cobbled streets within medieval walls and, in the vineyards, evidence of winemaking that dates back to the Romans. Today, alongside those traditions, some of the most radical architecture – and winemaking – flourishes. Rioja, ancient and modern combined, is fascinating for its towns, its people, its fabulous festivals, and above all for its wines.

    Everything you need to know about Rioja and its wines

    • Wine history and geography
    • Rioja classifications explained
    • The best villages and wineries to visit
    • Where to eat and where to stay
    • Wine routes for day trippers and weekenders
    • Where the winemakers dine

  • Format: Paperback
    ISBN: 9781917084505
    Publication Date: 15-10-2024
    Pages: 184

    €16.95

The Bordeaux Club — The Seventy-Year Story of Great Wines and the Friends Who Shared Them Neil McKendrick

  • The story of twelve friends who gathered to share and celebrate the extraordinary wines of Bordeaux. Like-minded in their love of wine,
    they differed wildly (often alarmingly!) in their personal wealth, life and circumstances. Their opinions, always voiced, had the power to ignite anger and divide friendships just as easily as they bound them together.

    Neil McKendrick, member and minute-taker for fifty-seven of the Club’s seventy extraordinary years, weaves the tale of this convivial group with the rigour of a Cambridge academic (he is ex-Master of Gonville and Caius) and the humour of a born raconteur. He celebrates the beauty of top-class Bordeaux and the splendour of each setting – from glorious country houses to rickety Dickensian boardrooms – in which these men were lucky enough to dine, serving up memories of vintages the like of which we will never see again.

  • Format: Hardback
    ISBN:9781913141349
    Publication Date:15-11-2022
    Pages:384

    €45.95