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Title: The Wines of Spain by Julian Jeffs, Wendy Jones, John Flower ISBN: 0-571-17531-7 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A literate monograph, and useful as well!
Comment: Why Spanish wines?
When experimenting with wines that suited my budget (less than ten dollars a bottle), I found that most French wines disappointed, while ALL the Spanish wines were very good.
Hence, Spanish wines.
A quotation from the book supports, at least in part, my observations -
"It is now almost impossible to buy a bad Rioja"
Julian Jeffs book is extremely well written, with thorough discussions of the climate, the soil, the grapes, the wines and the Bodegas of the various regions in Spain. Interspersed are several interesting historical details and cultural and literary references. Wonderful to read in the chapter on Sherry was Falstaff's speech in praise of "sherris-sack" from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 quoted in full. Even better was to find out that they have a monument to G. K. Chesterton in Sitges, a Catalonian town where he often visited.
Refreshingly, this book does not have any photographs - it is not wine-porn! Instead there are lovely line drawings by Wendy Jones, that blend in well with the text, without distracting from it. Again refreshingly, wines are not classified individually. The book will not drive the potential wine buyer to worrying about the relative worth and merits of an 85 point wine compared to a 90 point wine. The classification is done for each region by rating the vintage years on a scale of 1 (least good) to 7 (best). There are additional comments about individual wines in the discussions of the Bodegas.
The book is useful for the Spanish wine enthusiast, and it is good reading for anyone interested in wine.
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Title: The New Spain : A Complete Guide to Contemporary Spanish Wine by John Radford ISBN: 1857322541 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Rioja and Its Wines by Ron Scarborough, Jim Watson ISBN: 1901130312 Publisher: Survival Books Ltd Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The New France: A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine by Andrew Jefford ISBN: 184000410X Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Pub. Date: 25 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Wines of Alsace (Faber Books on Wine) by Tom Stevenson, Julian Jeffs ISBN: 0571149537 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy by David Lynch, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Mario Batali, Joseph Bastianich ISBN: 0609608487 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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