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The New France: A Complete Guide to Contemporary French Wine

8 reviews
Andrew Jefford

Mitchell Beazley, 2002

PUTS ASIDE ANY STUFFY NOTION OF FRENCH WINE
A great read and reference as to what is going on in French Wine today. Covers all the regions and introduces the reader to the regional personalities and the best producers. You gotta add this one to your wine library.

Andrew Jefford's Wine Course
Andrew Jefford

Ryland Peters & Small, 2008

Andrew Jefford's "Wine Course" is written with warmth, wit and a deep love of the subject. It unfolds in 20 projects, so you learn the essentials in a helpful order. The first part, The Tools, introduces you to the kit you'll need for tasting and thinking about wine, including glasses and the colours of key wine types. You'll learn how to choose wine and make tasting notes. The Elements explains wine's components. Andrew profiles the Magnificent ...

After-dinner Drinks
Andrew Jefford

Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 2003

Choosing Wine
Andrew Jefford

Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd, 2003

This book gives you the knowledge to make choosing wine a true pleasure and helps you find the best bottles around. Invaluable Drinking Notes sections are included.

After-Dinner Drinks: Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying
Andrew Jefford

Ryland Peters & Small, 2003

In After-dinner Drinks, award-winning author and broadcaster Andrew Jefford guides you gently through this restorative, soothing world, explaining exactly what each drink is, pinpointing its key scents and flavors, and helping you go straight to the best of the best. With this book to hand, no meal ever need stop at the coffee.

Peat Smoke and Spirit: A Portrait of Islay and Its Whiskies

2 reviews
Andrew Jefford

Headline Book Publishing, 2005

Captures the true spirit of the Hebrides
If you want a taste of the Western Isles of Scotland then there is no better book than Peak Smoke and Spirit. Andrew Jefford has distilled a lot of history into these chapters, capping off each chapter with a tour of one of the seven remaining Islay distilleries, among them Lagavulin and Laphroaig. You don't necessarily need to know the Islay whiskies to appreciate this book, but it helps. ...

ES: 101 Things You Need to Know About Wine (Evening Standard)

1 review
Andrew Jefford

Simon & Schuster UK, 2000

Terrible title, excellent book!
This is a wonderful book, aimed at the novice but containing plenty of information to please the veteran wine lover. It is written in an entertaining, visual style and is a delight to read. If you have already read the others, you will still find much to enjoy here, and you may learn more than you thought "wine 101" could teach you.

Evening Standard London Wine Guide 1996
Andrew Jefford

Trafalgar Square, 1996

Beginning with a round-up of the year, Andrew Jefford reveals the best places to buy wine in London, from wine merchants, through supermarkets and high street chains to mail order specialists and warehouses. With suggestions of recommended bottles, details of opening times, discounts, tastings and storage facilities, the mystery of wine is being removed. An exploration of the capital's wine bars makes up the next section of the guide, ...

"Evening Standard" 101 Things You Need to Know About Wine
Andrew Jefford

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

Peat Smoke and Spirit: The Story of Islay and Its Whiskies
Andrew Jefford

Headline, 2004

Those who discover malt whisky quickly learn that the malts made on the Isle of Islay are some of the wildest and most characterful in the malt-whisky spectrum. In PEAT SMOKE AND SPIRIT, Islay's fascinating story is uncovered: from its history and stories of the many shipwrecks which litter its shores, to the beautiful wildlife, landscape and topography of the island revealed through intimate descriptions of the austerely beautiful and remote ...

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