Shortlisted in the Drink Books category for the 2015 André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards
Winner in the UK for the Gourmand Drink Awards Best Wine Book category, 2015
A hundred bottles more, please Oz The Independent, August 2015
A fascinating dip into the past, present and future of a wonderful beverage Tim Atkins, Woman & Home magazine, August 2015
Entertaining and informative House & Garden magazine, September 2015
Who better to take you on a journey of discovery about the history of wine, than Oz Clarke our best-loved wine writer. A journey that takes you from the buried clay urns of Georgia in 6000 BC, to the fraudsters who have rocked the world with their multi-million-dollar counterfeiting scams. Along the way, you ll pass through the taverns of Pompeii, discover the oldest bottle of wine that s ever been drunk, meet an Englishman who might have invented champagne, and visit the highest and coldest vineyards in the world. This entertaining and informative book tells you all you need to know about the history of bottled poetry.