Wine Books Review (3/4)

The World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson (Spanish Edition)


Given as a gift, this an ideal book for people moving their interest to wine.

Maps are very complete, labels help to differ between goods and theorically bads bottles. That is the point.
On the other hand, details are very poor, Spanish section incomplete (Thanks to Robinson figures in third place, I assume) and a short history of the origins of wine culture.

Sometimes if you try to talk about everything, you speak nothing at all.

How to Enjoy your Wine by Hugh Johnson (Spanish Edition)

Another gift.
Basics and more basics.
A young HJ give you a few examples to enjoy your wine.
A book full of topics working only for Britons.

Wine tastes, Wine styles by Andrew Jefford (Spanish Edition)

More complete that last review, this book, one more gift, is at least, full of beautiful pictures taken by Alan Williams. Probably they are the best part of this book.
The text is very basic and recommended for beginners.
Good for what it is.

Burgundy and its Wines by Nicholas Faith

For me, this is a typical example that everything is possible in this little wine world.

The potion is very easy: a prologe of a famous guru (RP Jr.), lovely landscape pictures (Andy Katz) and a good verbosity of a pseudofamous wine writter. What a shame!

By the way, Burgundy is well-represented by those nice photos but the wines, where the hell are the wines?
Perhaps those last five pages of 146. So pitifully.

Wein by André Dominé (Spanish Edition)


This is a big book but not a great one.
If only consider the size, you can think every wine knowledge must to be inside.
By disgrace, as you perfectly know, bis is not synonimous of better. Typical confusion.

Anyway, this is a serious effort to establish a reference among all these books.
After all, Geman spirit always is considering the whole as a goal.

This is not only a complete reference but a consultive book.
Sincerely I think it must to be checked again.
Highly recommended.
As ever, Könemann means quality.