This prestigious book, like a fine wine polished by time and accumulated experience, is part dream
and part emotion. A veritable invitation to awaken the senses, it distinguishes the giver as much
as the person who receives it.
In the service of Bordeaux wine for more than a century-and-a-half
1845: First English edition of Charles Cocks' book.
1850: First French edition. In 1868, Bordeaux and Its Wines becomes a reference work which
comes under the direction of Edouard Féret. With time, users baptize the book the "Féret".
2004: A practically perfect comprehensiveness, an extensive updating (more than 200,000
changes among the half-million details of the last English edition) and an enlarged scope
of the information presented make this work indispensable for understanding the
Bordeaux vineyard.
The most complete encyclopedia of Bordeaux wine
More than 50 researchers have edited the pages on basic knowledge to give the reader
indispensable information necessary to understand Bordeaux wine. Professionals, researchers,
engineers, professors, recognized and established specialists in each of the fields discussed have
written chapters about the history of the vineyard, the grape varieties, vine pests and illnesses,
vinification, barrel-aging, the art of choosing, drinking and storing Bordeaux wine, professional
organizations, wine and health, vintages, etc. Each appellation is presented with an overview of its
principal characteristics and production figures, as well as any pertinent classifications that apply.
Thus the reader can look at the entire Bordeaux vineyard scene with all the necessary information:
from the most modest to the most grand, from the most prestigious to the least known, here is an
incomparable vision of Bordeaux's production.
Bordeaux and Its Wines® is a basic tool for the wine professional, an indispensable guide for
the amateur, meeting the most varied needs and answering the most diverse questions.
Whatever the status of the reader, specific answers will be found here: a search for a particular
wine, an address, the existence of a property, its history, its reputation, its official classification,
the evolution of its production.
Three main indexes enable easy access to the information sought:
These are the three essential keys to the discovery of:
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