Encyclopedia of Wine

by Frank Schoonmaker

Book Overview

This book contains over 2,000 wine names and terms from all over the world, with maps, wine labels, food affinities, and vintage years. More than six years in preparation, it is ruthlessly accurate, non-technical, highly readable and amusing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803819102
• ISBN13: 9780803819108
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best straight reference guide for beginners or experts

We use this book constantly in our tasting room. I have years of experience in the wine industry and I'm always running to Schoonmaker to answer all kinds of obscure questions that our customers come up with. The format hits the major points of each topic without opinion or prejudice - how refreshing to get the facts without the hype on a subject that is over-hyped to begin with!

The basic wine encyclopedia

I cut my own wine-loving teeth on an earlier edition of this excellent encyclopedia, literally reading it from cover to cover over a weekend when I was first excitedly discovering the wine hobby. Alexis (not Alex) Bespaloff's revision (and his editors) unfortunately took a lot of the guts out of the old book -- along with adding in much new information about New World wines -- but it's still a useful reference, arguably the one single-volume encyclopedia a wine lover ought to have if you can have only one