Life'S Too Short To Drink Bad Wine: New Edition - Tapa dura

'Pick up Spectator writer Simon Hoggart's excellent book: it's a conversational trip through Hoggart's 100 top bottles... his anecdotes will have you reaching for the corkscrew to expand your drinking horizons' for Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Esquire

'Engagingly written... tells the stories behind an eclectic collection of his favourite bottles' for Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Square Meal Lifestyle magazine

'This newly revised and updated edition of Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine provides a personal selection of 100 exciting and eclectic wines that are invariably good value - including ten new ones - and is aimed at the amateur wine lover. Entertaining, anecdotal and informative.' --Oldie, November 2012

'The wine correspondent for The Spectator & The Guardian columnist recommends great value wines...as well as wines for special occasions' for 'Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine --Food & Travel magazine

In this informative and amusing book - updated by Jonathan Ray to include 12 new wines - Simon Hoggart provides a highly personal selection of more than 100 exciting and eclectic wines that are invariably good value. Life's Too Short to Drink Bad Wine is aimed at the amateur wine lover prepared, occasionally, to spend a little more than supermarket prices to get something special. Simon eschews pretentious `wine-speak' yet describes his encounters with each of them so wittily you will be sure to remember them. The wines are arranged alphabetically with entries interspersed with interesting features varying from how to read a wine label or on how to buy wine, to an account of the Judgment of Paris, when Californian wines beat the French in a blind tasting. From the 112 selected, Simon has awarded ten of them Top 10 status. At the back of the book is a source list of wine makers, distributors and merchants.