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The Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Winetasting

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A great book that is a must for "winelovers" with illustrations that only a crazy Englishman could think about in the wicked world of winetasting!

a must read for anyone who enjoys wine and espically those who like to talk about it. Great gift for the wine snob you know.

Is this the book that Searle illustrated some 10-15 years ago? I enjoyed sharing it with many winetasting friends. It contained such depictions as "this wine is passed its prime" or "This wine is very immature" I loaned to someone and never got it back. If this is the book, I want it!!!

Pompousness was never funnier! The snobbish lingo used to describe wines gets a taste of its own medicine in this hilarious collection of Searle cartoons.

I'd say it's his best book; however, two others come as close seconds: SOMETHING IN THE CELLAR and SLIGHTLY FOXED -BUT STILL DESIRABLE. I'd get all three if I were you!

This book is full of the funniest illustrations that will make anyone laugh and real wine appreciators fall out of their chairs!

Is this the book that Clos Du Bois winery commissioned some 10-15 yrs ago? It had such cartoon depictions as "This wine is immature" and " This wine is passed its prime" I enjoyed it so much, while having wine tasting parties, then someone "borrowed" it.

I owned this very fun book, some 10-15 yrs ago, if it is the book that illustrates common sayings about wine. Very clever, what a genius to depict sayings like, "this wine is passed its prime" or "this wine is immature" I need to know if this is the same book, Mr. Searle was commissioned by Clos du Bois Winery at that time. Is this the same book?

The Molesworth books have made many in my family into firm Ronald Searle fans. Of course, we are shameless anglophiles, and probably most people would find Molesworth much less funny than we do. Anyhow, outside the relatively innocent confines of St. Custard's, Mr. Searle can get too raunchy for my taste. Winespeak is a good example of this. Well, there's "wicked" right in the title, so I was just dumb to order it.