Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover

by Jancis Robinson

Book Overview

A classic book about the pleasures of wine by the editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine

Even the French admit that Jancis Robinson is the undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine (Le Figaro) and her is vintage memoir of a life in wine. Internationally renowned for her work in both television and print, she is the editor of the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine and has won more than two dozen major awards around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140270019
• ISBN13: 9780140270013
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Must For Fans of Jancis and of Wine!

I have been shocked to see Jancis Robinson's books and videos being slated by Americans. Maybe her European style and English stlye of writing aggrevates Americans. I found this book absolutely charming! (Then again, I am European!)It's not a guide to wine in itself but more a fascinating tale of Jancis' involvement with wine and it's producers. If you bear this in mind when you order it, you will not be disappointed. Her turn of phrase makes this the ideal book to read whilst sipping a nice glass of wine!