Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189788 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

The best reference for buying AND learning about wine
"Best Wine Book in the World 2004 & 2005" -- Gourmand International Award. It's on the cover of the 2006 book and is truly earned.

DK 2006 covers more wine-related topics than any other book: Wine Regions, Yearly Vintage Review, Top Picks in each Region, Wine Politics (e.g. counterfeiting, misleading award labels, appelation regulation), Production Issues, Wine & Health, Best of Wine Resource lists, and Wine Science. All in 430 pages.

The book is much more than Tom Stevenson could ever do maverick; his book consolidates wines by country with a cohort of global contributors reviewing the well known regions alongside rather obscure regions like Israel, Missouri, Lebanon, Switzerland, and Greece.

Each region is dedicated its fair value of attention. Every contributor in the book discusses that region's year-by-year harvest & weather, talks about trends & news related to that country's wine, and also reviews the last 5 years' vintages. Each region has ranked lists based on Quality, Best Bargain Wine Finds, Best Producers, Best Value Producers, and Unusual/Exciting Finds.

Most pocket references are books with "Top 10" lists that offer little or no insight to the reader as to how they arrived at their conclusions. Those lists are in this book as well, but the lists here are varied so you can use them to pick wine by budget, for collecting, or for impressing the gueests. And the number of regions covered combined with the op-ed writing about that region's wine production will provide you with an edge in wine knowledge that most competing books can't.

Great reading for both the rookie or oenologist.

A very handy and up-to-date resource for the wine lover...
Wine Report 2004 by Tom Stevenson is an exceptional reference for both the expert and the beginner. I'm in the wine business and have dozens of wine books which each have their merits. Mr. Stevenson's New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia is one of the benchmarks of the business and is respected world over. The Wine Report 2004 is a much smaller book in comparison, but it's chock full of information. Relying on local experts to cover the various regions of the world is a well chosen strategy. The Grapevine section at the beginning of each chapter provides juicy (no pun intended) gossip for wine insiders. It's also great to read the opinions of the experts and their predictions/hopes for the future of wine in their part of the world. The information inside is as current as it gets. Simply a great pocket reference for the wine insider. Well done!

A 'Must-Have' for traveling wine lovers
The Wine Report 2004 is a very useful and easy to use resource with a comprehensive guide to wines around the world. This is a must-have for the busy person who loves travel and loves wine.