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Tim James returns to his vintage collection of The Compleat Imbiber, a classic journal of witty old school wine writing.

Brian St Pierre is a reviews On Bordeaux: Tales of the Unexpected from the World’s Greatest Wine Region, edited by Susan Keevil.

Harry Eyres browses the wine library he inherited from his father and picks out some of his favourite wine writers and wine books.

WHAT WINE SNOBS DON’T KNOW ABOUT WINE To find out, Macleans overseas editor journeyed intrepidly to southern France, land of champagne cellars and the worlds most pampered grapes. Then, perhaps even more intrepidly, he invited four of the worlds most loquacious epicures to lunch—rare wine snobs who may even know what theyre talking about April 21 1962 LESLIE F. HANNON WHAT WINE SNOBS DON’T KNOW ABOUT WINE ...

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Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast Brian St. Pierre reviews (Académie du Vin Library; £25) By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive s...

Timely highlights of wine writing make a literary buffet on which to feast Brian St. Pierre reviews (Académie du Vin Library; £25) By now, in this plague year, most of us may be feeling more than a bit like the poor dupe in Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado,” walled into a wine-cellar’s alcove, maneuvered into claustrophobic isolation in an extreme of anti-social distancing, and frustrated at being unable to expansively share one of the best things ever created for expansive s...