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Book reviews – Drinking with the Valkyries

Drinking With The Valkyries by Andrew Jefford front cover

If there was a single wine book that Tam would beg wine lovers to buy in 2022, it would be this one.

Drinking with the Valkyries
Writings on wine 
Andrew Jefford 
Published by Académie du Vin Library 
ISBN 9781913141325
£25 

'There must be a last
farewell. Just leave the door
swinging, the light beyond'
@andrewcjefford

There are wine critics, wine journalists and wine writers. And then there is Andrew Jefford.

His Twitter feed is haiku. Literally. 

In 2012 Jefford gave a lecture to the Wine Communicators of Australia on ‘Wine and astonishment’. He exhorted his colleagues ‘to...