Good Reading

[Jerry D Mead]

There is a book published a few years back called The Vintner's Art by Hugh Johnson and James Halliday that really explains wine from the ground up...literally. Growing it, making it, tasting it and so on. Both are critically acclaimed (one Brit, one Aussie).

There's something called The University Wine Course by Dr. Marian Baldy, based on her wine appreciation class taught for some umpteen years at a California university.

Eventually, you should acquire The Oxford Companion to Wine...the be all, end all, of wine tomes. Just about everything you'll ever want to know about anything to do with wine can be found within.

If you have trouble finding any of these books locally, you can order them from The Wine Trader Book Services (800) 845-9463.

JDM