Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2010 (Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book) [Hardcover]

Oz Clarke (Author)

Book Description

Series: Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book | Publication Date: October 6, 2009

“Clarke’s style provides an easy read: sharp without being sarcastic, witty without being flippant, he communicates well with novice and knowledgeable wine enthusiasts alike.”                                                                                                             —Wine Enthusiast 

You can’t hold all the wine information you need in your head—but with this handy guide, you’ll always have it at hand!

Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke’s now classic Pocket Wine Guide has been thoroughly and meticulously updated for 2010. It features more information, more recommendations, more facts, more figures, and more passion and opinion than any other comparable book on wine. 

Designed for optimal browsing, it includes 60 illustrations of maps, labels, and bottles, as well as a country by country index and a full producer index to help you find over 4,000 of the world’s top wine producers.

 

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About the Author

Known for his phenomenal palate, accurate predictions, and enthusiasm, Oz Clarke is Britain’s best-known wine writer and the author of a collection of bestselling wine books. He has won all the top wine writing prizes, both in the UK and the US, including the Lanson Special Millennium Award for his outstanding contribution to wine communication and education and the prestigious International Wine and Spirit drinks Communicator of the Year Award. 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (October 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140277124X
• ISBN-13: 978-1402771248
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,288,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best "go to" guide., May 14, 2011

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L. Rozzi "bargain hunter extraordinaire" (Granger, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2010 (Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book) (Hardcover)

I had purchased our first encyclopedia of wine in 2000 before a trip to Italy. It was Oz Clark's and it became our bible of wine. Realizing that it was out of date, I purchased this book for our trip to Spain and it did not disappoint. It is never out of reach in our wine room. The book stores are FULL of wine books and it can be mind-boggling. You really cannot go wrong with this one.

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent pocket/wine store guide, January 16, 2010

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Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2010 (Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book) (Hardcover)

Oz Clarke is one of the best known British wine writers. I hadn't seen his previous pocket wine guides, but this one seems well put together with good organization and a good selection of wines. There's a good range of price scales and wine styles (the guide isn't a "vintage" guide populated almost exclusively with pricey (though excellent) Bordeaux and Burgundy wines nor is it a budget guide to the best mass produced Australian wines with pictures of cute animals on the labels) and some solid opinions. I can tell what Oz Clarke likes from this book, and that's why you'd buy the book.