Oxford Companion to Wine, third edition
Jancis Robinson wrote over the weekend about the enormous effort it took to update the Oxford Companion to Wine. This third edition tips the scales at a whopping 840 pages, 6.57 pounds and 900,000 words. Many of the entries and material is new as she described in the Financial Times Weekend:
“France’s crise viticole is another quasi political entry and, with a certain neatness for students of the Oxford University curriculum, each of politics, philosophy and economics have for the first time their own wide-ranging entries on their implications for wine.”
Why is this excerpt so important? Because I authored the 1,000 word entry on the “politics of wine”! That’s right, I was honored to contribute 1/900th of the volume!
I haven’t seen the tome yet but there’s lots new and lots fresh in this edition. I’m already carving out a space on my desk–and structurally reinforcing it!
The book’s official release date is Oct 1 but it is available now through Amazon.
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