The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America

by Bruce Cass (Editor), Jancis Robinson (Editor)
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Hardcover - 320 pages (November 2000) Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 019860114X ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.11 x 11.12 x 8.80 With more than 1400 wineries producing many of today's most celebrated labels, North America has become a respected world power in wine production. California Chardonnays now compete with French, and discriminating shoppers can now choose Mexican and Canadian reds in addition to their European counterparts. The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America encompasses this fertile region's wine and winemaking with scope and authority, illuminating the major techniques, variations, and key players on the North American scene for the first time in one comprehensive volume. Sure to become the classic book on American wine, The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America is a masterpiece of scholarship with a dynamic flavor befitting its subject. Novices and connoisseurs alike will find it an irresistible resource. (Amazon.com)
ISBN	019860114X