Book reviews 2015 – wine schools and history books

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

The History of Wine in 100 Bottles 
From Bacchus to Bordeaux and beyond 
Oz Clarke 
Pavilion Books 
£20, $24.95 

One hundred chronologically ordered two-page chapters; eight thousand and fourteen years; the evolution of wine from hollowed-out tree trunks to fraud worth $48.4 million. It's like trying to draw a map of the world on the head of a pin, and possibly only Oz Clarke is mad, fearless and irreverent enough to try.

Clarke addresses the noble (Tutankhamen, Louis Pasteur, Dom Pérignon, £105,000 for...