Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine - Hardcover

'Pick up Spectator writer Simon Hoggart's excellent book: it's a conversational trip through Hoggart's 100 top bottles... his anecdotes will have you reaching for the corkscrew to expand your drinking horizons' for Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Esquire

'Engagingly written... tells the stories behind an eclectic collection of his favourite bottles' for Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Square Meal Lifestyle magazine

'This newly revised and updated edition of Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine provides a personal selection of 100 exciting and eclectic wines that are invariably good value - including ten new ones - and is aimed at the amateur wine lover. Entertaining, anecdotal and informative.' --Oldie, November 2012

'The wine correspondent for The Spectator & The Guardian columnist recommends great value wines...as well as wines for special occasions' for 'Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Food & Travel magazine

'This informative and amusing guide analyses 100 wines from around the world. Detailing wine makers and merchants for ease of ordering.' --The Guardian, 5th January 2013

'Simon Hoggart is the political sketch writer for The Guardian and he describes places, producers and wines in a series of engaging and sometimes amusing short stories, peppered with common-sense advice. It introduces wine lovers to some of the best, but not necessarily the most famous wines in the world. Give it to the person who brings good wine to your dinner parties.' --Olive, 1st February 2013

In this informative and amusing book, newly revised and updated, Simon Hoggart provides a highly personal selection of 100 exciting and eclectic wines that are invariably good value (including 10 new ones). Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine is aimed at the amateur wine lover prepared occasionally to spend a little more than supermarket prices to get something special. Simon eschews pretentious 'wine-speak' yet describes his encounters with each of them so wittily you will be sure to remember them. Whether or not you have the pleasure of drinking all of the featured wines, you will certainly enjoy every page. The wines are arranged alphabetically with entries interspersed with interesting features varying from how to read a wine label or on how to buy wine, to an account of the Judgment of Paris, when Californian wines beat the French in a blind tasting. From the 100 Simon has selected he has awarded ten of them Top 10 status. At the back of the book is an extensive source list of wine makers, distributors and merchants, with complete details, including websites, for ease of ordering.