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Flawless – book review

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Flawless
Understanding faults in wine
Jamie Goode
Published by University of California Press
ISBN 9780520276901
$25, £20

This book has been shortlisted for the André Simon Awards 2018

At the beginning of last year we published Jamie Goode’s I Taste Red, and it was my book of 2016. It was a book that should be on everyone’s reading list, especially if you write about, sell, teach, recommend or study wine. It was about the wonder, complexity and mystery of how we taste and perceive taste. It was about the way our brains are wired – or might be...