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Book reviews 2015 – not quite dummies' guides

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For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2015, see this guide.

The Knowledge: Red Wine 
Peter Grogan  
Quadrille  
£10, $9.94 

The Knowledge is a new series of non-fiction pocket guides launched in 2015 by Quadrille Publishing, and Red Wine was one of the first to be released, along with other titles such as Opera, Stargazing, The Periodic Table and Jazz. In 139 pocket-sized pages (normal-sized print) and nine chapters it covers making red wine; grape varieties; 'The Old and New Worlds'; red wines in France, the rest of Europe, USA and the...