Books published by ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY LIMITED

A great read of the roller coaster life of one of wine's most uncrushable optimistic and opinionated Mavericks! For me, it's his tribulations and triumphs in Bordeaux that shine.' Oz Clarke

A multi-layered look at this essential wine, beautifully designed to bring the region to life on the pageContributions from top champagne writers: Tom Stevenson, Essi Avelan MW, Serena Sutcliffe MW, Peter Liem, Tyson Stelzer and Robert Walters, and champagne's modern era is welcomed in by Evelyn WaughThe fascinating history and Champagne's place in the world today, and its aspirations for the futureFull of stories about the innovators and charactersNext in the series after On California, one of 2022's wine books of the year in Sunday Telegraph, Washington Post and New York TimesChampagne is never a simple glass of fizz... As soon as the cork flies, the first sip reveals a wine of fascinating complexity. For even the most modest non-vintage cuvée, a bevy of blending decisions, multi layers of history and the incalculable climate of this northern corner of France all come into play. In On Champagne the thoughts, opinions and conclusions of the world's finest champagne writers gather to reveal this wine's action-packed trajectory from the myth of its accidental discovery - not in France, we find, but in the cider cellars of England - to the development of a high-tech champagne fit for space travel. It's a journey that starts and ends with capturing that sparkle in a bottle and along the way beguiles us with the nuances of its chalky terrain, the determination of rebels from Ambonnay to Avize, and the mystery of a champagne cellar under the sea. We meet the pioneers who created the great champagnes of the past and the personalities who are 'greening' this landscape, nurturing it through climate change to shape the exquisite champagnes of the future.

Hugh Johnson, the world's best-selling and most loved wine writer, has written his memoirs as a stylish, intimate, and delightfully opinionated autobiographical tour through the world of wine.

In this unique study of wine through the ages, journalist and World War I frontline reporter, H Warner Allen casts an observant eye over the way wine appears in literature.

On California explores this world-class wine region with some of the most respected writers to have written about it. A beautiful volume for all wine lovers.

Maurice Healy, Irish barrister practising at the English Bar and well-known wine connoisseur, takes a wide-ranging tour of European wine regions, and recounts historic vintages he had the good fortune to drink.

The definitive portrait of wine, a cultural bedrock of Western civilisation for millenia, by the undisputed master of the subject.