Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2002 (Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guides) [Hardcover]

Oz Clarke (Author)

Book Description

Series: Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guides | Publication Date: November 5, 2001

The quickest reference to all the wines you need to know-in the pocket guide category, Oz wins "hand down" (Wine Spectator)

New features for the completely revised and updated Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide 2002 edition include a series of intriguing personal lists-Oz's Favorites, Best-Kept Secrets, Producers to Watch-and an expanded glossary of wine terms. Clarke's easy-to-use, A-to-Z format ensures that you will find the wine you are looking for, and his simple rating system ensures that you will appreciate it. No wine writer is keeping pace with Clarke's estimation of the wine world, or doing it with more style and unalloyed enjoyment.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

With Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide: 2002, the magical West London-based, award-winning wine journalist and author, Oz Clarke, continues to help the wine drinker avoid any "hocus-pocus" in the world of Hawke's Bay and Petrus. Setting the tome's tone in a breezy introduction, Clarke describes what he'll be drinking in the wake of the current global wine glut ("making a beeline for Tuscany" or consuming "Kiwi" Sauvignon made "with gorgeous crunchy attack"). He then spends a few pages nominating his picks for "Wines of the Year" and includes "Producers to Watch" lists--oddly identical to those in the 2001 guide--and the requisite chapter on pairing food and wine. But Clarke's Pocket Wine Guides have always been the most practical quick reference due to their Abruzzo-to-Zin factor: entries cover everything from chateaux and regions to grape types and growers, all in one world-encompassing, border-defying alphabetization. If the author tends to exclude many smaller U.S. producers, and even if only nominally updated from the previous edition, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide: 2002 still has the magic. --Tony Mason

Review

With Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide: 2002, the magical West London-based, award-winning wine journalist and author, Oz Clarke, continues to help the wine drinker avoid any "hocus-pocus" in the world of Hawke's Bay and Petrus. Setting the tome's tone in a breezy introduction, Clarke describes what he'll be drinking in the wake of the current global wine glut ("making a beeline for Tuscany" or consuming "Kiwi" Sauvignon made "with gorgeous crunchy attack"). He then spends a few pages nominating his picks for "Wines of the Year" and includes "Producers to Watch" lists--oddly identical to those in the 2001 guide--and the requisite chapter on pairing food and wine. But Clarke's Pocket Wine Guides have always been the most practical quick reference due to their Abruzzo-to-Zin factor: entries cover everything from chateaux and regions to grape types and growers, all in one world-encompassing, border-defying alphabetization. If the author tends to exclude many smaller U.S. producers, and even if only nominally updated from the previous edition, Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Guide: 2002 still has the magic. (Amazon.com Review -Tony Mason )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Revised edition (November 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151009120
• ISBN-13: 978-0151009121
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 3.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,639,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)