After yesterday's piece on the reality of wine fraud, Tam reviews two books that romp through this unseemly side of the wine world – one fiction, one not.
Vintage Crime
A short history of wine fraud
Rebecca Gibb
Published by University of California Press
ISBN 9780520385931
£25, $29.95
Rebecca Gibb became a Master of Wine in 2015. Her final research paper was on the 1911 Champagne riots, a topic which, she writes in this book, ‘came while I was wearing my pyjamas’. It was bedtime reading – Champagne, by Don and Petie Kladstrup – which inspired the topic of...