Customer Reviews:
 Great for the wine traveller July 29, 2008
I bought this book for my husband shortly before we started planning a series of wine-themed holidays and it's been a great planning tool. It has a good mix of vineyards, bars, musuems, shops, etc and includes some interesting "wine facts" along the way. Price guides are in dollars, but it's not a great hindrance to the UK reader. It also includes some of the less obvious wine regions (the UK, for example) and covers the more obvious ones in sufficient details.
 Quirky but very recommendable April 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was given this book at Christmas and at first wasn't certain what to make of its mixture of vineyards, restaurants and museums. But the more I looked, the more I found to like, including the opinionated nature of the writing and the quirkiness of the selection process. There are well known places here, but some famous vineyards have been left out in favour of ones I'd never heard of. It seeks to cover the world and I'm in no position to say whether the recommendations for Ecuador and South Korea for example are truly the best in those countries, but I've used the book in Germany, France and Australia and it has yet to let me down. My only criticism is that it's a touch heavy to lug on a long trip. But there's nothing like it and I'd recommend it to any wine lover who likes or has to travel.
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