''The Oxford Companion to Wine'' (''OCW'') is a book in the
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of
Oxford Companions
''Oxford Companions'' is a book series
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published by
Oxford University Press
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. The book provides an alphabetically arranged reference to
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented grapes. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different ...
, compiled and edited by
Jancis Robinson
Jancis Mary Robinson OBE, ComMA, MW (born 22 April 1950) is a British wine critic, journalist and wine writer. She currently writes a weekly column for the ''Financial Times'', and writes for her website JancisRobinson.com, updated daily. She ...
, with contributions by several wine writers including
Hugh Johnson,
Michael Broadbent
John Michael Broadbent, MW (2 May 1927 – 17 March 2020) was a British wine critic, writer and auctioneer in a capacity as a Master of Wine. He was an authority on wine tasting and old wines.
Career
Broadbent was born in Yorkshire. He was edu ...
, and
James Halliday,
and experts such as
viticulturist
Viticulture (from the Latin word for '' vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of '' Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine ...
Richard Smart and
oenologist Pascal Ribéreau-Gayon.
[
The contract for the first edition was signed in 1988, and after five years of writing it was published in 1994.][Jolley, Malcolm, gremolata.co]
Jancis Robinson Interview
accessed on April 4, 2008 The second edition was published in 1999 and the third in 2006. The fourth edition, published in 2015, contains nearly 4,000 entries (300 of them completely new) over about 850 pages with contributions from 187 people.Michel Rolland
Michel Rolland (born December 24, 1947) is a Bordeaux-based oenologist, with hundreds of clients across 13 countries and influencing wine style around the world. "It is his consultancies outside France that have set him apart from all but a handfu ...
and even former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Com ...
have entries, while California oenologist Helen Turley
Helen Turley is a pioneering American winemaker and wine consultant. She is known for bringing several Californian cult wines to the public awareness, and as the owner of a boutique winery, Marcassin Vineyard. She is the recipient of several pre ...
is omitted.[ Also, there is no entry for Jancis Robinson herself.
]Eric Asimov
Eric Asimov (born July 17, 1957) is an American wine critic and food critic for ''The New York Times''.
Early life
Asimov was born in Bethpage, New York, the son of Stanley Asimov, former vice-president for editorial administration at ''News ...
of ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' has noted that with the wine world's increasing rate of evolution, "this encyclopedic work keeps pace with new information on issues like climate change, biodynamic viticulture and globalization, and emerging wine regions like Canada and eastern Europe".[
Having received several awards, including the André Simon Memorial Award and the Glenfiddich Award,][ it has been described as "the most useful wine book ever published",]
References
External links
OUP
''The Oxford Companion to Wine'' information
Oxford Companion to Wine Online
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1994 non-fiction books
Oxford University Press reference books
Books about wine