Bøger af Oz Clarke

Oz Clarke's World of Wine, is an entertaining yet authoritative guide to the world of wine that has grown out of all recognition in the last 20 years. In his trademark lively and opinionated prose, Oz takes you on a grand tour of the great wine regions of the world, explaining the flavours behind different wines and how to find the wine you want.

Join Oz Clarke on a journey through the ages as he explores the places, the people and the bottles that have shaped the captivating history of wine.Starting from the probable birth of a wine culture in ancient Georgia, Oz travels from 6000 BC through the fact and fiction of Persia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, and then along the winding trail right up to the latest innovations in winemaking today. Oz shares more than a hundred fascinating tales and woven into these are probably a hundred more. From revered medieval monks to revolutionary discoveries, Oz paints a wonderfully vivid picture of the ever-evolving story of wine.

Oz's most authoritative and definitive, yet also his most personal wine book ever. This book, and Oz, really are your personal wine guides.

Oz uses his trademark wit and irreverent style to teach you the basics of wine appreciation and show you how to get more out of a bottle of wine, and find out what is really inside. Divided into short, easy to read topics, now is the moment to grab that glass, learn about what's inside that bottle and taste while you read...

It used to be the easiest way in the wine world to get a laugh: start extolling the virtues of English wine. However, the view now is of a country blessed with tracts of soil suitable for viticulture and of a country taking full advantage of the vagaries of climate change to ripen grapes and England is now the newest of the New Wave wine countries.