The Australian Wine Annual 2012
Oliver, Jeremy

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A$29.95

The fifteenth edition of Jeremy Oliver's bestselling guide to Australian wine takes all the hard work out of selecting what to drink or cellar. It's a fully independent expert catalogue of the very best Australian wines at each price point featuring more than 300 wineries and nearly 14,000 wines, each of which he has tasted himself!

Amongst the hot tips in The Australian Wine Annual are Jeremy Oliver's Wine of the Year and the nine other finalists, his Top 100, plus his sought-after listing of the best Australian wines for $20 and under. It also features professional tasting notes of more than 1200 new releases, plus commentary on current wine trends and concepts and the issues facing Australian wine producers in a challenging global environment.

Non-technical and simple to follow, it presents a score out of 100 and a tasting note for the current release of each wine listed. Colour coded charts of drinking windows indicate quality cellaring potential of back vintages of each wine. The book also features a full colour high-resolution label of every wine covered, making it as easy as possible for people to find the wines they want to taste and enjoy.

Encyclopaedic, accessible and extremely easy to use, The Australian Wine Annual 2012 is the definitive guide to Australian wine for wine lovers the world over.

Author Information

Jeremy Oliver is one of Australia's foremost wine critics and educators and is this country's most influential wine presence throughout the Asian region. The author of 23 books including The Australian Wine Annual and Enjoying Wine With Jeremy, the first wine book by a westerner in Chinese for the Chinese market, he contributes to publications throughout Australia, China, Russia, Japan, Singapore and Korea. Fully independent, he was named the inaugural Wine Writer of the Year in 2005 by the widely circulated Australian Wine Selector magazine. Jeremy also operates his own wine information website, jeremyoliver.com.