Classic Wine Library
Welcome to The Classic Wine Library
The Classic Wine Library is a set of wine books for professionals, wine enthusiasts and armchair travellers. It has a long heritage, stretching back more than 60 years to the first publication of Sherry, by Julian Jeffs. The series in its current guise has been published since 2013 and in 2023 found a new home with Académie du Vin Library. It contains more than 30 titles already (including the sixth edition of Sherry) and is growing every year. Whether you want to increase your knowledge about famed wine regions in the heart of Europe, New World heavyweights such as South Africa and Australia or emerging producers like Japan and southwest USA there is no more authoritative source of information on wine.Our books and authors
Our books are indispensable guides to the regions covered and their wines. They are designed to enlighten and entertain those serious about wine (and a few other drinks too). The books are detailed enough to provide plenty of information – much of which is not available anywhere else – for students of wine, sommeliers and others who work in the wine industry, but accessible enough to be enjoyed by anybody with an enthusiasm for wine. All our authors are expert in their subject. Many are Masters of Wine and all have years of experience in the wine industry. Not only that, but the whole series is curated by an editorial board. James Tidwell MS, Sarah Jane Evans MW and Richard Mayson are all well known in the wine industry and their expertise and opinions are widely respected. Each title is commissioned based on their recommendations and the manuscript assessed thoroughly by one or more of the editorial board before being published. We believe this rigorous approach makes our wine books uniquely authoritative: in a world of dubious information The Classic Wine Library is one resource serious wine lovers and professionals can really trust.“I take my hat off to the editorial team curating the Classic Wine Library series … The content is rich in fact and detail, meticulously researched, and written with a sense of connection. They’re serious books … but accessible to the non-professional wine lover and very easily used as a wine travel guide.” – Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
Classic Wine Library
The wines of Australia
In The wines of Australia, sommelier Mark Davidson tastes his way round the new Australian wine w...
£35.00
The wines of Piemonte
Piemonte is home to the great wines of Barolo and Barbaresco, made from Nebbiolo grapes, but it a...
£35.00
The Classic Wine Library Reader
The Classic Wine Library is home to some of the world’s most trusted expert writing on wine. This...
£40.00
Madeira: The islands and their wines (2nd edition)
Richard Mayson’s Madeira: The islands and their wines is a unique guide to a unique wine. This co...
£35.00
Fizz!
In Fizz!, Anthony Rose takes an in-depth look at sparkling wines of the world, exploring how and ...
£35.00
The wines of Roussillon
In The wines of Roussillon, Rosemary George MW presents a view of this oft-overlooked wine region...
£35.00
Wines of the Rhône
Wines of the Rhône is a guide to one of the great French wine regions. It covers all the appellat...
£35.00
The wines of Portugal
The wines of Portugal provides detailed descriptions of the demarcated wine regions, the growers ...
£35.00
The wines of Southwest U.S.A.
Few would associate America’s frontier states with wine. And yet it is here, in 1629, that the co...
£35.00
The wines of South Africa
In the past decade a new generation of South African winemakers has been breathing fresh life int...
£35.00
The wines of Georgia
The Republic of Georgia can claim over 8,000 years of winemaking history but Georgian wines are s...
£35.00
Sherry
The fully updated sixth edition of Julian Jeffs’ Sherry explores the links between Jerez’s histor...
£35.00
The wines of Germany
Domaine Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year 2020 (Louis Roederer International Wine Writ...
£35.00
Luxury wine marketing
A textbook and practitioner’s guide, written by Liz Thach MW, a leading Professor of Wine Busines...
£50.00
The wines of Great Britain
Great Britain is a premium wine-producing region, with around 650 vineyards in England and Wales ...
£35.00
Port and the Douro (4th edition)
This ever-popular book now includes vintages up to 2017; all shipper, quinta and wine producer en...
£35.00
The wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois
The wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois features the history, vineyards, crus and viticultur...
£35.00
Sake and the wines of Japan
Sake, Japan's rice-based national drink, can be confusing to the wine scholar. Anthony Rose's new...
£35.00
The wines of Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova
This first book devoted to Eastern Europe’s most important wine-producing countries provides deta...
£35.00
The wines of New Zealand
An insight into the world’s southernmost wine-producing region by Rebecca Gibb MW. Features chapt...
£35.00
Wines of the Languedoc
"The most important book written on the Languedoc so far." – Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com
Fo...
£35.00
Wine: A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our lives
Rod Phillips' Wine looks at how this drink has been used to demarcate social groups and genders, ...
£30.00
The wines of northern Spain
Spain is Europe’s most exciting wine producer. Sarah Jane Evans, the world’s leading authority on...
£35.00
The wines of Greece
The wines of Greece begins with a summary of Greece’s wine history, geography and grape varieties...
£35.00
Rosé: Understanding the pink wine revolution
It's time to start taking rosé seriously. This expert guide to pink wine begins with a history of...
£35.00
Amarone and the fine wines of Verona
Amarone and the fine wines of Verona is a sure-footed guide to all aspects of Veronese wine produ...
£35.00
The wines of Austria (2nd edition)
Austrian wine has experienced a sensational quality boom in the last 20 years and is regarded as ...
£35.00
The wines of Canada
Canadian wine expert Rod Phillips provides an overview of Canada’s wine regions (British Columbia...
£35.00
Côte d'Or: The wines and winemakers of the heart of Burgundy
Shortlisted for the Domaine Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year at The Louis Roederer In...
£35.00
Spirits Distilled
The third edition of Spirits Distilled is a comprehensive guide to all of the major spirits categ...
£30.00
The story of Champagne
The new edition of Nicholas Faith’s landmark The story of Champagne is written from the wine-make...
£35.00
Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandy
This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world’s greatest brandy provides an ...
£35.00
Biodynamic wine
Monty Waldin’s Biodynamic wine is a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the most argued-about...
£35.00
The wines of Faugères
The wines of Faugères is a comprehensive guide to the wines of a small, distinct region of Langue...
£35.00
Amarone and the fine wines of Verona - ebook
Amarone and the fine wines of Verona is a sure-footed guide to all aspects of Veronese wine produ...
£9.99
Biodynamic wine - ebook
Monty Waldin’s Biodynamic wine is a comprehensive and entertaining guide to the most argued-about...
£9.99
Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandy - ebook
This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world’s greatest brandy provides an ...
£9.99
Côte d'Or: The wines and winemakers of the heart of Burgundy - ebook
Shortlisted for the Domaine Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year at The Louis Roederer In...
£9.99
Fizz! - ebook
In Fizz!, Anthony Rose takes an in-depth look at sparkling wines of the world, exploring how and ...
£9.99
Luxury wine marketing - ebook
A textbook and practitioner’s guide, written by Liz Thach MW, a leading Professor of Wine Busines...
£25.00
Madeira: The islands and their wines (2nd edition) - ebook
Richard Mayson’s Madeira: The islands and their wines is a unique guide to a unique wine. This co...
£9.99
Port and the Douro (4th edition) - ebook
This ever-popular book now includes vintages up to 2017; all shipper, quinta and wine producer en...
£9.99
Rosé: Understanding the pink wine revolution - ebook
It's time to start taking rosé seriously. This expert guide to pink wine begins with a history of...
£9.99
Sake and the wines of Japan - ebook
Sake, Japan's rice-based national drink, can be confusing to the wine scholar. Anthony Rose's new...
£9.99
Sherry - ebook
The fully updated sixth edition of Julian Jeffs’ Sherry explores the links between Jerez’s histor...
£9.99
Spirits Distilled – eBook
The third edition of Spirits Distilled is a comprehensive guide to all of the major spirits categ...
£9.99
The Classic Wine Library Reader - ebook
The Classic Wine Library is home to some of the world’s most trusted expert writing on wine. This...
£9.99
The story of Champagne - ebook
The new edition of Nicholas Faith’s landmark The story of Champagne is written from the wine-make...
£9.99
The wines of Australia - ebook
In The wines of Australia, sommelier Mark Davidson tastes his way round the new Australian wine w...
£9.99
The wines of Austria (2nd edition) - ebook
Austrian wine has experienced a sensational quality boom in the last 20 years and is regarded as ...
£9.99