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Book reviews – anthologies

On Burgundy AdVL book cover

Four new collections that you can dip in and out of at your leisure.

On Burgundy
From maddening to marvellous in 59 wine tales
Compiled by Susan Keevil
Published by Académie du Vin Library

ISBN 9781913141530
£30 Académie du Vin LIbrary or £96 as part of the anthology collection

It was ‘as if the clouds had parted and the sky had coloured lavender and wraithlike little sprites were dancing on the surface of the water’.

‘… what I wrote in my notes, inebriated with words, I fear. What are “crosscurrents of energy”? A switchboard?’

‘The pure silk and intoxicating aromas...