Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2003
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Now in its twenty-sixth year of publication, this book offers up-to-date news on more than 6,000 wines, growers, and regions. With comprehensive vintage information and recommended wines for current drinking, this is the only annual wine guide anyone really needs. It has all the information necessary to help you select anything from a weekday wine for supper to a prestige vintage for investment. Also included are vintage charts, maps, and unique insider tips on wher… More >>
Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2003
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This pocket wine book reviews wines that are not readily available in the Midwest. If you live in California or New York, it may be a better option for you.
Rating: 1 / 5
At its price and size, unequalled, year after year. I only wish the sections on states such as New York, Virginia, and North Carolina were more extensive, but one can only pack can so much information into a book of this size.
Rating: 5 / 5
As a book, Hugh Johnson’s annual Pocket Wine Book is a model of clarity. Wine buffs will find a long list of short but distinct entries, organized geographically and alphabetically within a country. There are also many tips on which wine goes with which food, the different ways to serve different wines, and descriptions of under appreciated and under publicized wines such as port and sherry.
Wine lovers know of the rivalry between wine critics Robert Parker and Hugh Johnson, and Johnson fans the flames with two pages poking fun at Parker’s 100 point scale. To be frank it is hard not to agree that Johnson’s system is better. A simple four star system to rate quality coupled with a highlight to show his own preferences. This strikes me as the correct level of precision for the topic.
However, this trivial dispute about how to rate wine overshadows the real disagreement between the two men, which is about how to make wine. Johnson believes in terroir (geography) and technology while Parker believes in traditional manufacture and grape varieties. Unfortunately, Johnson hardly ever acknowledges that particular dispute with Parker and completely lacks generosity to opposite viewpoints on these two issues. That I tend to see things Johnson’s way does not make it less of a pity to me. The last failing costs the book one star. Or perhaps I should give it 96.5 points.
Vincent Poirier, Tokyo
Rating: 4 / 5
I have been buying this book for many years and I am always impressed with how much information is in such a small book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Like finding the perfect anniversery gift or putting on your snow tires, buying this guide should be one of those things you do each and every year.
Why? Because it will pay for itself the very first trip you make with it to the liquor store. Think I’m exagerating? Then keep reading.
Hugh Johnson is the Roger Ebert of wines. In other words, he knows his subject thouroughly but without ever being snobby or pretentious. He knows you don’t find the perfect wine — whether for cheap pasta, or coq au vin, or to lay down for a decade — by price. Trying to decide between the 80 buck Cabernet Sauvignon or the simply labelled “red table wine” at 30 dollars — and you’ve never tasted either? Hugh can tell you the better value. Not to mention which one is just plain better.
And with that one purchase, you’ll have more than paid for the book.
So what are you waiting for? Buy it already.
Rating: 4 / 5