Best Wine Books

The trouble with doing a 'favorite books' list is that as soon as you've compiled a list, you discover another book that should have been included. The following is the list of favorite wine books which I have listed in my own book.

Campbell, Christy: The Botanist and the Vintner, Algonquin Books

Clarke, Oz: The History of wine in 100 Bottles, Stirling Publishing.

Colman, Tyler: Wine Politics, University of California Press

Dovas, Michel & Guillard, Michel: Bordeaux: Legendary Wines, Assouline

Heskett & Butler: Divine Vintage, Palgrave Macmillan

Johnson, Hugh & Robinson Jancis, World Atlas of Wine, Simon & Schuster

Johnson, Hugh: Pocket Wine Book, Mitchell Beasley

Johnson, Hugh: Vintage – The Story of Wine, Simon & Schuster

Kliman, Todd: The Wild Vine, Clarkson Potter Publishers

Keevil, Susan: Wines of the World, Metro Books, (D. Kindersley)

Lukacs, Paul: Inventing Wine, W.W. Norton & Company

MacNeil, Karen: The Wine Bible, Workman Publishing

Pitte, Jean-Robert: Bordeaux vs. Burgundy, U. of California Press

Potter, Maximillian: Shadows in the Vineyard, Twelve, Hachette Book Group

Robinson, Jancis: Guide to Wine Grapes, Oxford University Press

Robinson, Jancis: [Editor] The Oxford Companion to Wine, OUP

Saporta, Isabelle: VINO Business, The Cloudy World of French Wine, Grove Press

Steinberger, Michael: The Wine Savant, W.W. Norton & Company

Taber, George: Judgment of Paris, Scribner

Veseth, Mike: Wine Wars, Rowman & Littlefield

Wallace, Benjamin: The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Crown Publishers

Too late to make my list, I have just discovered the following wonderful study of the origen of wine:

Patrick E. McGovern: Ancient Wine, The Search for the Origens of Viniculture, Princeton University Press