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Welcome to That Useful Wine Site!
You have apparently come to this page from a link on a search engine or another site. If this is your first visit here, I much recommend that you take a few minutes to look over the introductory material accessible via the blue “Introductory” zone of the Site Menu available from the “hamburger” icon in the upper right of this (and every) page. An understanding of the purposes and principles of organization of this site will, I hope and believe, much augment your experience here, for this page and in general. You can simply click this link to get at the site front page, which, unsurprisingly, is the best place to start. Thank you for visiting.
Those interested in this site may reasonably be assumed to also have some interest in books about its subject: wine. Here, in association with AbeBooks, we make it easy for you to browse—and, if you choose, purchase from—our virtual book shop of wine-related books. And, a little down this page, we point you at some of the most-recommended of such books.
AbeBooks is actually a centralized aggregator through which many thousands of individual book sellers, from large down to mom’n’pop size, make available their inventory of books—both new and used—offering literally millions of books. It even maintains reader forums—but above all it makes buying books—again, new or used—easy and economical.
(Disclosure: we are an AbeBooks “affiliate”, meaning that if you buy any book from them through a link from us we get a commission—a pittance, believe us—that does not affect your cost.)
There are zillions of books on wine, many excellent reading; but those listed here are usually considered key references.
In this list of especially recommended wine books, every listed book title (and image) is a click-on link to the Abebooks listing of offers for that particular edition of the indicated book (“particular edition” means a particular ISBN, the unique code assigned by international standards to a particular edition of a particular book). Clicking on the link will open a new tab in your browser showing all the listings, new and used copies, for that edition. On that new tab, you will find a column at the left of the listings wherein you can narrow or widen your search in many useful ways (for one example, new-only or used-only).
Keep in mind that an ISBN identifies one particular edition of the subject book. A given book, especially if popular, may have two or even several different editions—hard-cover or paperback, earlier or later, or intended for different national markets. We have tried to list only the latest edition of each book; where there are both a paperback and a hard-cover, the paperback is the main listing, but a link to the hardcover is also given.
Italy is home to more native grape types than France, Spain, and Germany combined; this book tells you all about them, in detail, plus it has a great explanation of the insights—and possible shortcomings—of modern DNA analysis of grapes.
From Kevin Zraly (see above): “the best wine book written in years and will remain a classic forever”. (This is the paperback edition; there is also a hardcover edition)
Besides the few particular books listed above, you can click one of the links below to browse all of ABE’s listing of books with the word wine in their titles. Right now, that would be 57,743 books! Choose how you prefer to see the offers (initially sorted by “Relevance”):
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