Robert Joseph's Good Wine Guide 2000 - Hardcover

Robert Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789446375 ISBN 13: 9780789446374

Publisher: Dk Pub (T), 1999

Synopsis

A fully updated edition of this acclaimed annual reference to the world of wine, Robert Joseph's Good Wine Guide helps you find the perfect bottle for every occasion. Joseph, a renowned wine critic, is famous for: his readiness to puncture the pretensions of overpraise wines and his skill at spotting the best valued bottles. This combined buyer's guide and A-Z encyclopedia includes over 2,500 wines, plus insider information on regions, grape varieties, producers, and wine terms. There's even a section listing the best vintages from North American wineries.

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Review

As the brash, opinionated editor of the 2002 edition of the Good Wine Guide, Robert Joseph--founder of Wine magazine, columnist for the [London] Sunday Telegraph, and Web site host--presents a glossy volume as unctuously meretricious as an over-oaked Chardonnay. With more than 300 hardbound pages, the Good Wine Guide 2002 will never pass as one of the numerous "pocket" wine guides saturating the market, but it does share similar traits, albeit in puzzling proportions. Barely more than half the book is devoted to an A-to-Z of the entire world of wine, including terminology and producers (the entries for some of which being egregiously flip), while Joseph dedicates a whopping 18 pages to the preferred padding of pocket guides everywhere--food and wine matches. A risky chapter devoted to state-by-state retailers excludes California giant Beverages & More, but includes the defunct (later partially resuscitated) Wine.com; it's a lost gamble. Better are features such as full-color pages depicting wine labels from around the world and how to read them. And if California "White Merlot" does become the next big thing, it'll just prove that Robert Joseph is better at prognostication than presentation. --Tony Mason

About the Author

Robert Joseph is known for his down-to-earth approach to wine appreciation and his skill at spotting the best value bottles. He is the wine correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and founding editor of Wine magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dk Pub (T)
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789446375
• ISBN 13: 9780789446374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304