The brand new edition of the unrivalled and bestselling annual, Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book . The world's best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 44th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. He reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a color supplement on terroir .

"Johnson's guide is really all that a wine drinker-average or connoisseur level-will need this year. And, next, year, for seventeen bucks, it's worth another investment, if only to read Johnson's prose." - Forbes.com.