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A history of wine books
20 April 2004  by Bacchus Press Ltd
The ultimate wine library
Bacchus Press Ltd is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition of James Gabler's Wine into Words: A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language, 2004. 503 pages, Illus. Hardcover, $75. ISBN 0-9613525-5-8.

Hugh Johnson calls Wine into Words, '[T]he ultimate wine library ...' with nearly 8,000 entries, thousands of annotations covering everything wine has touched: art, literature, music, history, food, winemaking, grape growing, poetry, politics, religion, war, and hundreds of biographical sketches of the men and women who pioneered wine's development and recorded its history.

Robert Mondavi pays it the ultimate compliment: 'It's a must for all wine lovers.' Robert M. Parker Jr. says Wine into Words is 'a prodigious and essential achievement, in addition to being a fascinating historical reference ...'

Dr. Kevin Starr, historian and State Librarian of California, writes in the Introduction, 'No one in the world of wine has achieved anything approaching the perfection, the comprehensiveness of James Gabler's masterful harvest of English-language wine-related items.... Certainly, this is a most valuable book for the world of wine ...'

Wine into Words, 2nd edition, is available worldwide at book stores everywhere through the Ingram Book Company and Ingram International, from Amazon.com, The Wine Appreciation Guild: 1-800-231-9463, Online at www.thomasjefferson.net, and directly from the publisher, Bacchus Press Ltd: bacchuspr@aol.com.

In Australia and New Zealand from Ryan Publications Ltd., 297 The Parade, Beulah Park, Adelaide, Australia 5067. Email: admin@grapeandwine.com.au.

About the author
James Gabler is the author of Wine into Words: A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language, 1985, Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson (winner of the 1995 Veuve Clicquot 'Wine Book of the Year' award, and Decanter magazine and Robert M. Parker, Jr. 'Wine Book of the Year' selections), and How To Be A Wine Expert, 1987, 2nd edition 1995.

For more information contact Bacchus Press Ltd.
Tel: 410-828-9463
Fax: 410-321-0763
Email: bacchuspr@aol.com
Website: www.thomasjefferson.net
 
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