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Ahead of this year’s André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards,  db is running extracts of all of the shortlisted drinks titles. The final work is Inside Bordeaux: the châteaux, their wines and the terroir by Jane Anson. Is it possible to write something new on a region that has been so widely covered, studied, dissected, discarded, rediscovered, fought over, loved, despised… rinse-and-repeat? I hope that even a brief dip into Inside Bordeaux will answer that question, and show that despite often being presented as set in stone, Bordeaux is continually evolving and con...

Ahead of this year’s André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards,  db is running extracts of all of the shortlisted drinks titles. Next up is Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia by Max Allen. Oz Clarke places a forty-year-old bottle of Coonawarra shiraz gently on the table. He’s been waiting a long time to open this. As he picks up his corkscrew, he sees my smartphone. ‘Do you want to video this?’ he says. Of course I do. I’ve travelled all the way to Putney in South London, to the house of one of the world’s most famous wine writers, for th...

Read an extract from The Wines of Georgia by Lisa Granik MW, one of the drinks titles shortlisted for this year's André Simon Awards.

André Simon Awards food and drink book shortlist announced 18 February 2021 By Phoebe French The André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards has announced this year’s shortlist in the 50th anniversary year of French writer André Simon’s death. Guided by independent assessors Lisa Markwell, the food editor of The Sunday Times, and restaurateur John Hoskins MW, the panel have whittled down their initial 22-strong longlist to a final 11 food and drink book nominees. These consist of seven food books and four drinks books from over 170 entries. The shortlisted drinks...

André Simon Award announces drinks books longlist 21st December, 2020 by Rupert Millar The André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards has announced its first longlist – featuring books on wine from Bordeaux, Georgia, Australia and even another galaxy. The seven longlisted drinks books have been selected from a total of 170 that were submitted for both the food and wine categories. It is the first time that the awards have named a longlist, with André Simon Memorial Fund chairman, Nicholas Lander,...