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

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

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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 sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy d...

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 sharing. Denied wine’s bridge to gregariousness, “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy d...