The Story of Wine
In this book, which has won every wine book award in Britain and the US and is a landmark in wine literature, Johnson, the world's best-selling wine author, traces the story of wine from the dawn of civilization through the bacchanalian splendour of the ancient world to the present day. Johnson answers the key question: why have some places, and some people made great wine and what in the history of the process explains the difference between the great and the merely good?