Jancis Robinson’s Concise Wine Companion

What we have here is a concise version of the Oxford Companion to Wine, now in its second edition, which Jancis Robinson edited and produced some time ago. In her preface she comments on the success achieved by that publication but adds that there appeared to be only one serious criticism of it – that it is too heavy and unwieldy. So she has tackled that shortcoming by producing this more concise companion.

Jancis is, of course, well known, not only for her unusual forename, but also for her international reputation as a writer and broadcaster on the subject...