Wine Atlas of Australia & New Zealand-Revised Edit [Hardcover]

James Halliday (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

James Halliday has over 40 years of experience in the wine industry. This new edition features special profiles on major industry trends and personalities and statistics for all the major regions

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

A wine's quality depends largely upon the geographic characteristics of its birthplace. Most major wine-growing regions have atlases that serve to distinguish the origins of their wines. This first-ever wine atlas of Australia and New Zealand defines some 40 distinct wine-growing regions and describes each region's climate, soil, and grape varieties. Wine critic Halliday evaluates more than 600 wineries by quality and price , with top vintage years noted. He also profiles many wine makers so that the reader can get an idea of the personalities behind the products. Given the burgeoning interest in wines from Down Under, this important and attractive book fills a gap in the field.
- Peter C. Leonard, Mt. Lebanon P.L., Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

James Halliday is a highly accomplished winemaker, wine writer and critic, whose career stretches back over 30 years. He judges at wine shows internationally and is familiar with all aspects of the wine industry in Australia. James bases himself at the prestigious Coldstream Hills winery in Victoria's Yarra Valley, Australia, which he established.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers PTY; Revised edition (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0732264480
• ISBN-13: 978-0732264482
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 10.7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,882,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS WINE ATLAS USED FOR AN AMAZING WINE TOUR "DOWN UNDER', January 29, 2002

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ROBERT W. BENTLEY (Port Townsend, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wine Atlas of Australia & New Zealand-Revised Edit (Hardcover)

My recent month-plus tour of wineries in Australia and New Zealand was greatly based upon the excellent research,reviews and contacts using this fine reference.As a budding wine writer, collector, and head of a local Enological Society in the Pacific Northwest,Halliday's Atlas has been the virtual bible enabling the design of both the tour and subsequent writing.As my primary interest was a focus upon pinot noirs, my tour began in Australia where I visited Halliday's own Coldstream Hills Vineyard.His work provide a roadmap enabling me to contact other prominent pinot noir producers in the Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula-Main ridge, Stonier, Yering Station, Paringa Estates and others.While there, I also made contacts and was invited to a new release winetasting of New Zealand wines held in Melbourne. Quite amazingly, the first person I met was the great James, himself. It was fun and a privilege to share wine tasting experience and comments.
From there, the tour extended to the whole of New Zealand. Again the Atlas laid the groundwork for my visits, enabling me to meet most of New Zealand's greatest owners and winemakers, including John Buck at Te Mata,Kevin Judd at the famous Cloudy Bay,Neil McClallum at Dry River, Grant Taylor at Gibbston Valley and many others.Naturally, covering nine separate wine regions entailed tasting many other prime quality varietals in such warmer climes as Waiheke Island and Hawkes Bay with their magnificent cabernets and Bordeaux blends,plus gorgeous chardonneys,etc. In all cases, the Atlas gave regional and subregional data and exacting descriptions of "terrior" necessary to a serious study.Halliday is, in my book, a more comprehensive writer and reviewer of "new world" wines than even Jancis Robinson or Robert Parker. He also adds the direct insights of his winemaking in Australia and his pioneering of pinot noir developments "down under". His reputation as a critic is simply impeccable and his easily read writing style, while detailed, is at once comprehensive and comprehensible.It is a must read and essential reference for serious oenophiles and fellow wine tourists.

8 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know about Australian wines buy this book, September 23, 1999

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Mark Bruyns - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wine Atlas of Australia & New Zealand-Revised Edit (Hardcover)

If you read this book you get a very good vieuw of the Australian wines and winery's mr.Halliday did,as in his other books,an amazing job. for all the wine lovers out there a must buy