1.- BEST WINE BOOK

This year the best wine books all come from wine producing countries, with 7 from Europe and 2 from America, North and South. One book has already won two Best in the World Awards, The Wine Report 2003 and 2004, with Tom Stevenson. Kevin Zraly also received a Best in the World Award Year 2000 for Windows on the World Wine Course.

Two books are wine literature: The French Dictionnaire Amoureux du Vin by television star Bernard Pivot, and the Spanish Calice of Letters, published by Dinastia Vivanco, in Rioja.

1996   France – Les Vignes de Sainte Colombe

Christian Signol

(Albin Michel)

 1997   France – Le Culte du Vin

Baron Edmond de Rothschild and Nicolas de Rabaudy

(Gallimard)

1998   UK – Christies World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine, by Tom Stevenson (Absolute Press)

1999   UK – Terroirs, by James Wilson

(Mitchell Beazley)

    France – Special Award of the Millenium

    Les Vins du Siecle

    Philippe Faure-Brac

    (EPA)

2000   France – Le Vin de la Rome Antique, by Tchernia and Brun

(Glenat)

2001   France – Bordeaux et Ses Vins, by Ch.Cocks and Bruno Boidron

(Feret)

2002    Sweden – För Alle Sinnen (Systembolaget)

2003    UK – Michael Broadbents Vintage Wine, Fifty Years of Tasting Over 3 Centuries of Wine, by the Worlds Most Experienced Taster (Webster – Little Brown)

2004   UK – Wine Report 2005, by Tom Stevenson and his team of world experts (Dorling Kindersley)

2005    Germany – André Domine-Armin Faber (Peter Feierabend)

BEST IN THE WORLD

 April 7, 2007

1.-ARGENTINA

Viñas, Bodegas y Vinos – América del Sur

Vineyards, Wineries and Wine – South América

In Spanish and English

Diego Bigongiari

(Austral Spectator – Argentina)

The winneries are now healthier economically in Argentina, with a good production of wine books. The exports of Argentinian wines are strong, supported by the English editions of their wine books.

2.- FRENCH – FRANCE

Dictionnaire Amoureux du Vin

 Bernard Pivot

 (Plon)

Bernard Pivot in France is as famous as Oprah Winfrey in the US, recommending books that become bestsellers. He is from the Beaujolais wine region, and loves wines as much as books: he writes about his love for wines in this dictionnary.

3.- SPAIN-CASTELLANO

El Caliz de Letras

 Historia del Vino en la Literatura

 Miguel Angel Muro Munilla

 (Dinastia Vivanco)

Dinastia Vivanco has established a beautiful wine museum in Rioja, with publishing and library activities. This book tells the history of wine in literature.

4.- SPAIN-CATALAN

LArt del Vi a Catalunya

 Juan Guisado Arnaste

 (Diari de Girona)

 There is much good wine in Catalunya beyond the world famous Cava.

 The Girona newspaper published this beautiful book.

5.- SWEDEN

Vinets magi : en kulinarisk resa runt jorden
Bengt-Göran Kronstam

Photo: Claes Löfgren

Food Photo: Björn Lindberg

Layout: Patric Leo, Jesper Arfors

(Max Ström)

It won Best Book of the Year in the Swedish Cookbook Awards, ahead of all other cookbooks and wine books. The author is the editor of the leading wine magazine of Sweden Vin and Mat.

Swedens most acknowledged wine writer Bengt-Göran has been working more than thirteen years on this magnificent book. 

6.- SWITZERLAND

Die Bilder vom Wein

 Johann Willsberger

 Text-Redaktion: Dr.Karin Krüger

 2 Volumes

 Printed by Mediahaus Biering – München

 (Edition Willsberger AG-Switherland)

After years of publishing his Gourmet masterpieces, Johann Willsberger has moved from Germany to Switzerland. He then devoted two years to these amazing two volumes of very personal photos of wine. Our favorite page shows wine fermentation at the best wineries in Bordeaux and a few foreign ones, with Vega Sicilia of Spain having the most beautiful and delicate pink.

7.- UK

Wine Report 2007

Tom Stevenson and a Unique Team of Regional Specialists

 (Dorling Kindersley – DK)

Wine professionals wine who do not read this every year do not really know what is happening in the world of wine. It is clear, simple, complete and fun and cheap!

8.- USA

Windows on the World – Complete Wine Course – 2007 Edition

 Kevin Zraly

 (Sterling)

This yearly wine course is obviously written for the US, but it is international in its approach and comments. Any exporter who wants to sell in the US should read it, as well as Sommeliers worldwide. Windows on the World was the restaurant at the top of the Twin Towers destroyed on 9-11. The book had received our Best in the World in 2000.