Book reviews 2016 – places less known

Tamlyn Currin

Wednesday 28 December 2016

For links to all of Tam's reviews of wine books published in 2016, see this guide.

The Wine Route of Israel
Eliezer Sacks, Adam Montefiore, Yaron Goldfisher
Cordinata Publishing House
NIS149

This large, coffee-table-worthy, hardback, glossy book is the dream of Yaron Goldfisher. The original Hebrew version, Shvil HaYayin, has been translated into English and this is the latest, most up-to-date version. It's edited by Eliezer Sacks, founder of Cordinata Publishing House (which specialises in leisure and tourism books including several on wine, honey and olive oil), and large parts of the introductory text are written by Adam...

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